Left.
toshitsuki zo
For many years and months
Lord Suetsune .
Right (Win).
yoshinoyama
As Mount Yoshino
Nobusada .
Both Right and Left together state the opposing poem has no faults to indicate.
In judgement: in the Left’s poem, would it really be to no end to pass the time calling on Mount Kimase? The Right’s poem, on Mount Yoshino, has ‘but were I to do so’ (naka saraba ), which sounds charming. Thus, the Right wins.
Falling Leaves
紅葉ばのちる木のもとにやどかりてたびねの床に錦をぞしく
momijiba no chiru ko no moto ni yado karite tabine no toko ni nishiki o zo shiku Scarlet leaves
Daishin
Sent to the house of someone who had gone to Shinano.
月影は飽かず見るとも更級の山の麓に長居すな君
tukikage Fa
The moonlight can
Ki no Tsurayuki
足引きの山元茂き夏草の深くも君を思ふころかな
asiFiki no
Leg-wearying
吾妹子はさかよふ山の背はちかばあはじと人にかねてきかする
wagimoko wa
My darling,
Minamoto no Yorimasa
'Simply moving and elegant'