Autumn

Round Seven

Left

秋山はからくれなゐに成りにけりいくしほしぐれふりてそめけん

akiyama wa karakurenai ni narinikeri iku shio shigure furite someken

The autumn mountains To Cathay scarlet Have turned; How many dippings with drizzle Have fallen to dye them so?

13[1]

Right (Win)

秋きぬとめにはさやかにみえねども風の音にぞおどろかれぬる

aki kinu to me ni wa sayaka ni mienedomo kaze no oto ni zo odorokarenuru

That autumn has come With my eyes, clearly, I cannot see, yet The sound of the wind Has startled me.

Fujiwara no Toshiyuki 14[2]

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[1] Shokugosenshū VII: 429

[2] This poem was particularly highly evaluated and so is included in numerous other anthologies (Kokin rokujō I: 125), exemplary collections (Shinsen waka 2) and senka awase – contests assembled from prior poems (Shunzei sanjū roku nin uta’awase 61; Jidai fudō uta’awase 49).