Round Three
Left (Win)
春の夜のあくる霞の立田山これや神代の衣なるらん
haru no yo no
akuru kasumi no
tatsutayama
kore ya kamiyo no
koromo naruran | At a spring night’s
Dawn the haze around
Tatsuta Mountain—
Is this how in the age of gods
Raiment might have been? |
Supernumerary Major Counsellor Moto’ie
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Right
朝霞雲居をかけて見わたせばいたりいたらぬ山の端もなし
asagasumi
kumoi o kakete
miwataseba
itari itaranu
yama no ha mo nashi | When, upon the morning haze
Draping from the clouds,
I turn my gaze, it
Spread out, and fails to reach,
Not a single mountain’s edge. |
Nobunari, Senior Third Rank
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Both Left and Right are difficult to tell apart, yet the Left’s ‘clothing of the Age of Gods’ would seem to be superior.
On the conception of chrysanthemums under the moon by a lattice fence, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.
霜をまつまがきの菊のよひの間におきまよふ色は山のはの月
shimo o matsu
magaki no kiku no
yoi no ma ni
okimayou iro wa
yama no ha no tsuki | Awaiting the frost
By my lattice fence, the chrysanthemums
In the midst of night
Are draped in puzzling hues
By the moon from off the mountains’ edge. |
Kunaikyō
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Autumn
秋のよを吹あげの峰の木がらしによこ雲しらぬ山のはの月
aki no yo o
fukiage no mine no
kogarashi ni
yokogumo shiranu
yama no ha no tsuki | On an autumn night
Above Fukiage peak
To the chill wild wind’s
Streaming clouds paying no heed is
The moon upon the mountain’s edge. |
Ietaka
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Composed and sent to Master of the Right Capital Office Akisuke when he was Governor of Ōmi, to remark on his travelling to a distant district.
おもひかねそなたの空をながむればただ山のはにかかるしら雲
omoFikane
sonata no sora wo
nagamureba
tada yama no Fa ni
kakaru sirakumo | Unbearable is my heart’s pain—
Upon the distant skies
I gaze, but
Simply upon the mountains’ edge
Cling clouds of white.[i] |
The Former Chancellor and Palace Minister
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[i] An allusive variation on Rinkashū 205.
An ancient estate at the beginning of spring.
朝がすみたてるをみればみづのえのよしのの宮に春はきにけり
asagasumi
tateru o mireba
mizu no e no
yoshino no miya ni
haru wa kinikeri | When the morning haze
Rising I do see
By the water’s edge
At the palace of Yoshino
Spring has come! |
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Left
ひとこふとはかなきしにをわれやせんみのあらばこそのちもあひみめ
hito kou to
hakanaki shini o
ware ya sen
mi no araba koso
nochi mo aimime | Loving her was
Brief, so is die
What I should do?
If I live on then
I might meet her later! |
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Right
ゆふさればやまのはにいづるつきくさのうつしごころはきみにそめてき
yū sareba
yama no ha ni izuru
tsukikusa no
utsushigokoro wa
kimi ni someteki | When the evening comes
From the mountains’ edge emerges
Moongrass—just as
My loving heart has
Been dyed by you. |
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Wisteria
Left (Win)
おくつゆのひかりてたまぞみえまがふちのはながらにきえずもあらなむ
oku tsuyu no
hikarite tama zo
miemagau
chi no ha nagara ni
kiezu mo aranamu | The fallen dewdrops
Shine like gems
Within my sight;
From the budding leaves
I would they vanished not! |
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Right
あまつそらてりみくもりみゆくつきのふちのはなどはさやけかるらん
ama tsu sora
terimi kumorimi
yuku tsuki no
fuchi no ha nado wa
sayakekaruran | Through the heaven-bound skies
Shining, then clouding,
Goes the moon, so
Why, by this deep pool’s edge
Should it show so clear? |
Fukayabu
22
Topic unknown.
はれそむるみねのあさぎりひまみえて山の端わたるかりの一つら
haresomuru
mine no asagiri
hima miete
yama no ha wataru
kari no hitotsura | Beginning to clear
Are the morning mists from round the peak
And through the gaps appear
Crossing the mountains’ edge
A single line of geese. |
Fujiwara no Yorikiyo
A spring poem, from when he composed a fifty-poem sequence at the residence of Cloistered Prince Shukaku.
山のはもそらもひとつに見ゆるかなこれやかすめるはるのあけぼの
yama no ha mo
sora mo hitotsu ni
miyuru kana
kore ya kasumeru
haru no akebono | The mountains’ edge and
The sky, too, as one
Do seem!
This is the hazy
Dawn in springtime! |
Minamoto no Moromitsu
源師光
Spring Dawn
あづさ弓はるかにみれば山のはによこ雲わたるあけぼののそら
azusayumi
haruka ni mireba
yama no ha ni
yokogumo wataru
akebono no sora | A catalpa bow
Seen in the distance:
Across the mountains’ edge
Trail streaks of cloud in
The sky at dawn. |
Higo
'Simply moving and elegant'
