Left.
心さへまた外人になり果てば何か名殘の夢の通路
kokoro sae
Should even our hearts
Lord Sada’ie
Right.
omoiwabi
Grieving and
Jakuren
Both Left and Right state the opposing team’s poem is not bad.
In judgement: the conceptions of the Left’s ‘path of dreams’ (yume no kayoiji ) and the Right’s ‘cedarwood door’ (maki no to ) in gazing at the moon, are both elegant. The round should tie.
Left (Tie).
あらし吹月の主は我ひとり花こそ宿と人も尋ぬれ
arashi fukuaruji wa
As the wild wind blows,
181
Right (Tie).
うきよりは住みよかりけりと計よ跡なき霜に杉たてる庭
uki yori wasumi yokarikeri
The cruelties of the world
182
Left (Tie).
駒とめて袖うちはらふかげもなし佐野ゝわたりの雪の夕暮
koma tometesano no watari no
Halting my mount,
93
Right
待人の麓の道やたえぬ覧軒ばの杉に雪をもるなり
matsu hito no
My awaited guest’s
94
Left.
槇の戸は軒ばの花のかげなれば床も枕も春の曙
maki no to wa
My door of cedar wood
21
Right (Win)
花の色のおられぬ水にさすさはの雫もにほふ宇治の河長
hana no iro noorarenu mizu ni
Blossoms’ hues —
22
思ひやれ眞木のとぼそをおしあけて獨眺むる秋の夕暮
omoiyare
Imagine it!
In the conception of a mountain dwelling, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.
いまはわれ松のはしらのすぎのいほにとづべき物をこけふかき袖
ima wa ware
Now, I –
Princess Shokushi
いにしへの人の植ゑけむ杉が枝に霞たなびく春は来ぬらし
inisipe nosugi ga e ni
In ancient times
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
石上布留の神杉神さぶる恋をも我れはさらにするかも
isonokamisugi
In Isonokami
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Composed on ‘long hidden love’ at the Poetry Office Poetry Competition.
いその神ふるの神すぎふりぬれどいろにはいでずつゆも時雨も
isonokami
In Isonokami
The Regent and Grand Minister [Fujiwara no Yoshitsune]
When the Regent and Grand Minister was a Major Councillor, he had this composed on snow upon a mountain hut.
まつ人のふもとのみちはたえぬらんのきばのすぎに雪をもるなり
matsu hito no
Awaiting one whose
Sada’ie
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