秋風に夜のふけゆけばあまの河かはせに浪のたちゐこそまて
| akikaze ni yo no Fukeyukeba ama no kaFa kaFase ni nami no tati’wi koso mate | When with the autumn breeze The night wears on, Throughout the River of Heaven’s Rapids waves Arise and fall—as do I, awaiting… |
Tsurayuki
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SIS III: 142
Entō ōn’uta’awase 32
Round Thirty-Two
Left (Tie)
上葉ふく朝の原の秋風におのれうつろふ萩の下露
| uwaba fuku ashita no hara no akikaze ni onore utsurou hagi no shitazuyu | Blowing upon the upper leaves Over Ashita Plain, The autumn breeze touches, Fading all of itself The dripping dew upon the bush clover. |
Tomoshige
63
Right
今よりはたが涙とか成りぬらん下葉色づく秋萩の露
| ima yori wa ta ga namida to ka narinuran shitaba irozuku akihagi no tsuyu | From now on Whose tears might They become? Colouring the underleaves Are dewdrops upon the autumn bush clover…[1] |
Dharma Master Zenshin
64
Left and Right are in the same style. The Right’s poem wonders ‘whose are these tears’ and has a person’s tears as the dew upon the grass, which is something one often hears. Using dew on the grass as a person’s tears is a bit vague, yet it’s not going so far as to be a definite fault. These should tie.
[1] An allusive variation on: Topic unknown. あきはぎのしたば色づく今よりやひとりある人のいねがてにする akihagi no / shitaba irozuku / ima yori ya / hitori aru hito no / inegatenisuru ‘The autumn bush clover’s / Underleaves are colouring / From this point on, / For one all alone / Will sleep be harder to find?’ Anonymous (KKS IV: 220)
Kinkai wakashū 500
Kinkai wakashū 421
Yasuakira shinnō tachihaki no jin uta’awase 03
Maidenflowers
Left
あきかぜはふかずもあらなむをみなへししるもしらぬもおもふこころは
| akikaze wa fukazu mo aranamu ominaeshi shiru mo shiranu mo omou kokoro wa | Even should the autumn breeze Fail to blow, O, maidenflower, still Those who know you and know you not, Would hold you in their hearts… |
Taira no Yasū
5
Right (Win)
をみなへしおひたるのべにふきかかるあきののかぜにみをやそへまし
| ominaeshi oitaru nobe ni fukikakaru aki no nokaze ni mi o ya soemashi | Maidenflowers Growing in the meadows Brushed by the blowing Autumn wind o’er the fields— O, how I wish it trailed over me, too… |
Tomo no Tadanori
(or in some texts Toshizane)
6
Kinkai wakashū 316
Kinkai wakashū 266
Kinkai wakashū 216
Composed when I had gone hawking to a place called Togami Plain, and saw orchids blooming before a ruined hut.
| akikaze ni nani niouran fujibakama nushi wa furinishi yado to shirazu ya | In the autumn breeze, Why do they shine so bright? Do the purple petals, that The master of this ancient Dwelling is no more, not know? |
