Left (Tie).
煙立つ片山きゞす心せよ裾野の原に妻もこもれり
| kemuri tatsu katayama kigisu kokoro seyo susono no hara ni tsuma mo komoreri |
Smoke is rising From the mountain slopes, O Pheasant, Beware! In the meadows on the mountain’s skirts, Does your wife lie hidden… |
79
Right (Tie).
燒捨てし枯野の跡やかすむらん煙にかへるきゞす鳴也
| yaki suteshi kareno no ato ya kasumuran kemuri ni kaeru kigisu naku nari |
Left to burn, All sign of the sere fields Seems lost in haze; Returning to the smoke A pheasant calls… |
80
The Right have no particular remarks to make about the Left’s poem this round, while the Left say that they understand the general import of the Right’s poem, but are ‘unable to grasp’ the sense of ‘Returning to the smoke’ (kemuri ni kaeru) (that is, why a pheasant would do it).
Shunzei merely adds that ‘the smoke in both poems prevents one from seeing very far’, so there is no clear winner and the round must be a tie.