Sengohyakuban uta’awase 261

Round Two Hundred and Sixty-One

Left

あまつそら雲のはたてにみだれつつめもあやなりやあそぶいとゆふ

ama tsu sora
kumo no hatate ni
midaretsutsu
me mo aya nari ya
asobu itoyū
In the heavenly skies
The clouds’ edge is
All a tangle;
Have my eyes been deceived by
The sporting heat haze?

His Excellency, Sueyoshi
520

Right

とがむべき人なきゐでのやまぶきをこころやすくやなみのをるらむ

togamubeki
hito naki ide no
yamabuki o
kokoro yasuku ya
nami no oruramu
Is it that to scold them
Not a soul there is in Ide, that
The kerria,
Without a care,
By the waves are plucked?

Tango
521

The conception of the Left’s ‘clouds’ edge is all a tangle; have my eyes been deceived’ is nothing less than an exemplary verse. The Right’s ‘in Ide that the kerria, without a care, by the waves are plucked’ also sounds charming, this round is another tie, isn’t it.

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