Round Eighty-Seven

Left

けふまでも木ずゑは冬のいろながらこぞにはかはるゆきのした草

kyō made mo kozue wa fuyu no iro nagara kozo ni wa kawaru yuki no shitagusa

Until today The treetops winter’s Hues did hold, but With the change to the year before Grasses grow up ‘neath the snow.

Lord Yasusue
173

Right

くれはどりあやにながめのなりゆくかみどりの空にあそぶいとゆふ

kurehadori aya ni nagame no nariyuku ka midori no sora ni asobu itoyū

A chequered Pattern–when I gaze out how strange It becomes: In the verdant skies Sports heat haze…

The Minister of the Centre
174

Although it sounds a bit difficult to grasp the sense of the Left’s ‘grasses ‘neath the snow with the change to the year before’, there’s nothing wrong with composing about grasses growing beneath fallen snow, so the configuration is pleasant. The Right’s poem, too, has no faults to mention, so this round, too, should tie.