Left
あひみてはむつましくこそなるときけつれなさのみもまさるきみかな
| aimite wa mutsumashiku koso naru to kike tsurenasa nomi mo masaru kimi kana | On meeting So kind would She become, I heard, but Simply in cruelty does That lady excel! |
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Right (Win)
あかずしてわかれし人をゆめにみてうつつにさへもおつるなみだか
| akazushite wakareshi hito o yume ni mite utsutsu ni sae mo otsuru namida ka | Unsated Did I part from her to See her in my dreams, but Even in the waking world Will my tears fall? |
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Left (Tie)
こひわびぬかなしきこともなぐさめむいづれなぐさのはまべなるらむ
| koiwabinu kanashiki koto mo nagusamemu izure nagusa no hamabe naruramu | Suffering the pain of love and Sadness, too, I would be consoled, so Where might Nagusa Beach lie, I wonder? |
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Right
みぬ人のこひしきやなぞおぼつかなたれとかしらむゆめにみゆとも
| minu hito no koishiki ya nazo obotsukana tare to ka shiramu yume ni miyutomo | An unseen lady Do I love, but why? How strange it is— Is there any might know, Though I glimpse her in my dreams… |
Mitsune
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Scarlet Plum Blossom
Left
あひがたき人をばさらにみしころはいのはなれてはねられざりけり
| aigataki hito oba sara ni mishi koro wa i no hanarete wa nerarezarikeri | Hard to meet Her it was, but finally, I saw her once more, then Being parted Robbed me of my sleep. |
Tsurayuki
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Right (Win)
わすれにし人をぞゆめになほこむはいのはなやかにねられてぞみる
| wasurenishi hito o zo yume ni nao komu wa i no hanayaka ni nerarete zo miru | Forgotten by A lady who to my dreams Does yet come, so In sleep, clearly, When sleeping only do I see her! |
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A poem from the Poetry Contest held by the Empress Dowager during the Reign of the Kanpyō Emperor.
わびぬればしひて忘れむと思へども夢てふものぞ人だのめなる
| wabinureba siFite wasuremu to omoFedomo yume teFu mono zo Fito danome naru | I suffered, so To make myself forget you I did think, yet Dreams are such that They raise one’s hopes… |
Fujiwara no Okikaze