Left (Tie).
つれなさの又いかならん尋ね逢ふことだに難き人の行末
| tsurenasa no mata ikanaran tazuneau koto dani kataki hito no yukusue |
Her cruelty: What will become of it, I wonder? For paying her a visit, Even that is hard now, Like her fate! |
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Right.
尋來てあはぬ思にいとゞしく歸る遠さを添へてけるかな
| tazunekite awanu omoi ni itodoshiku kaeru tōsa o soetekeru kana |
Coming to visit, and Not meeting, so I feel A great Distance to the journey home Has been added! |
The Provisional Master of the Empress Household Office.
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The Gentlemen of the Left and Right have nothing to remark upon.
Shunzei’s judgement: both poems have certainly not mistaken the topic and appeared to have paid us a visit! The round must tie.