Round Fifty-Two

Left

しら露もしぐれもいたくもる山はした葉のこらず色づきにけり

shiratsuyu mo shigure mo itaku moruyama wa shitaba nokorazu irozukinikeri

The white dewfall and Showers, too, have completely Drenched Moruyama: Every single under-leaf Has coloured.

Ki no Tsurayuki
103[i]

Right

かづらきやたかまの山のさくら花雲井のよそにみてや過ぎなん

kazuragi ya takama no yama no sakurabana kumoi no yoso ni mite ya suginan

In Kazuragi On the peak of Takama are Cherry blossoms: Being beyond the clouds Should I overlook them?

Master of the Left Capital Office Akisuke
104[ii]

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[i] KKS V: 260: Composed in the region of Moruyama.

[ii] SZS I: 56: As a poem on blossom, when he presented a hundred poem sequence to Former Emperor Sutoku.