Left
ふくみあへず消えなむ雪を冬の日の花と見ればや鳥のとむらん
fukumiaezu kienamu yuki o fuyu no hi no hana to mireba ya tori no touran Unable enter in
155
Right
This poem is missing from extant texts of the competition.
A poem by Her Majesty, the Dowager Empress.
鯨魚取り 近江の海を 沖放けて 漕ぎ来る船 辺付きて 漕ぎ来る船 沖つ櫂 いたくな撥ねそ 辺つ櫂 いたくな撥ねそ 若草の 夫の 思ふ鳥立つ
isana tori
In the whale-hunting
Yamato Hime no Ōkimi
On parting from love.
しばしとてひがふる衣の後手にとりぞへらるる黒髪も憂し
shibashi tote
Swiftly
Shōtetsu
かくばかり雲の上高くのぼれれば駆ける鳥だにあらじとぞ思ふ
kaku bakari
Thus, when simply
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Composed on love at the dawn.
さりともと思ふ限は忍ばれて鳥と共にぞ音は鳴かれける
saritomo to
“Even if it’s so…”
Head of the Department of Shintō [Minamoto no] Akinaka
Topic unknown.
飛ぶ鳥の声も聞えぬ奥山の深き心を人は知らなむ
tobu tori no
Flying birds’
Anonymous
妹と我が同じ木の根の鳥ならば逢はぬ嘆きになきすゑてまし
imo to wa ga
Were my love and I
Minamoto no Yorimasa
水の面にをはうち触れて立つ鳥のやや天さかる人ぞ恋しき
mizu no omo ni
The face of the water,
Minamoto no Yorimasa
我が門の榎の実もり食む百千鳥千鳥は来れど君ぞ来まさぬ
wa ga kado noe nomi moripamu
At my gates
Left (Win).
冴ゆる夜に鴛鴦の衾を方敷きて袖の氷を拂ひかねつゝ
sayuru yo ni
On a freezing night
A Servant Girl .
577
Right.
木の葉をや鳥の上毛に殘すらん閨の衾も冴ゆる霜夜に
ko no ha o ya
Are there any leaves
Jakuren .
578
Neither Left nor Right have anything in particular to say.
Shunzei’s judgement: I wonder about accepting the Left’s ‘Beneath my duck-down bedding I lie alone’ (oshi no fusuma o katashikite ). The strengths and weaknesses are plain, and so there is not much more to say than that. The Left wins.
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