Round Twelve

Left

あふことをいなみ野に咲く女郎花をらぬものゆゑ袖ぞ露けき

au koto o inamino ni saku ominaeshi oranu mono yue sode zo tsuyukeki

A meeting she Declines—blooming upon Inami Plain, A maidenflower I have not picked, yet How dew-drenched my sleeves!

Taiyu no Suke
23

Right

うき人の心なりせばをみなへし吹くとも風になびかざらまし

ukibito no kokoro nariseba ominaeshi fuku tomo kaze ni nabikazaramashi

That cruel girl’s Heart did they but have, then The maidenflowers, With the gusting of the wind Would not bend at all, no doubt…

Tadasue
24

‘With the gusting of the wind’ and so forth sounds more in keeping with the topic at present than ‘blooming upon Inami Plain, / A maidenflower’.