Left (Tie).
いつとなく思亂れて過ぐる世にうら山しきは遊ぶいとゆふ
itsu to naku
Unendingly
Kenshō .
101
Right (Tie).
空に知れ春の軒端に遊ぶ糸の思ふ筋なき身の行衛をば
sora ni shire
Learn from the heavens!
Nobusada .
102
Neither team has anything special to say about the other’s poem.
Shunzei states, ‘Both poems have splendid poetic form on a theme of the poet bewailing his lot. They must tie.’
Left (Win).
おぼつかな何ばかりなるいとゆふの軒端に人のながめ分くらん
obotsukana
How unclear!
Lord Kanemune .
99
Right.
佐保姫や霞の衣織りつらん春のみ空に遊ぶいとゆふ
sao hime ya
Has the goddess of Spring
Lord Tsune’ie .
100
Here, the Right say that, ‘it’s unclear what gaze it is the haze is interrupting,’ but the Left have no comments to make.
Shunzei, however, says, ‘It is not the case that there is no reason to say “For what, do the wavering hazes” (nani bakari naru itoyū ). The Right’s poem has “A garb of haze a’woven?”. “A’woven” (oritsuran ) does not seem to correspond with the conclusion of the verse. In general terms, it’s banal [kotogoto furinitarubeshi]. The Left’s conclusion is somewhat difficult to interpret [kikiwakigataki yō ], but in construction the poem is superb [utazama masari ].’
我が宿の軒にしだ草生ひたれど恋忘れ草見れどいまだ生ひず
wa ga yado noshidagusa wasuregusa
At my dwelling
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
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
Sent to Prince Kore’akira with a sprig of double-flowered cherry blossom she had had picked.
やへにほふのきばのさくらうつろひぬ風よりさきにとふ人もがな
yae nioukaze yori saki ni
The double hues
Princess Shokushi
A Spring poem, when she offered a hundred-poem sequence.
ながめつるけふはむかしになりぬとものきばのむめはわれをわするな
nagametsuru
I turn my gaze on you
Princess Shokushi
When he presented a hundred poem sequence.
むめの花にほひをうつす袖のうへにのきもる月のかげぞあらそふ
mume no hana
The plum blossoms’
Fujiwara no Sada’ie
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