Left

夏の日を暮らし侘びぬる蝉のまにわがなきそふるこゑはきこゆや[1]

natsu no hi o kurashiwabinuru semi no ma ni wa ga nakisouru koe wa kikoyu ya

The summer sun They know not how to endure, So with the cicadas My sobbing Voice do you hear?

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Right

恨みつつとどむる人のなければや山時鳥うかれでてなく

uramitsutsu todomuru hito no nakereba ya yama hototogisu ukaredete naku

How I constantly despise The one who’s staying here If he were gone, would The mountain cuckoo Have aimlessly left his home to sing?

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[1] The phrase semi no (‘the cicadas’) is missing from the text of the contest, but has been suggested by later scholarship.