Left
yama fukami
Deep with the mountains,
Lord Ari’ie
Right (Win)
chigirikina
You vowed it, did you not.
Jakuren
Left and Right together state: we find no faults to mention.
In judgement: While there are such things in the heart of the mountains as ‘crags where seeds grow into pines’ (tane aru iwa ni ouru matsu ), it is normally by the sea or on rocky coastlines that one finds firmly rooted pine trees. Surely, mountain pines are but lightly rooted? Cedars on River Hatsuse recollects ‘Nor will I ever; a solid brick-kiln’ (wasurezu yo kawaraya ), but ‘You vowed it, did you not’ (chigirikina ) also reminds me of the old phrase ‘Both our sleeves wringing out’ (katami ni sode o shiboritsutsu ), which is most fine. Thus, the Right wins.
Left (Tie)
Fonokanaru
Your faint
9
Right
sayo Fukete
The brief night dawns
10
Topic unknown.
石上布留から小野のもと柏本の心は忘られなくに
isonokami
In Isonokami at
Anonymous
On sad thoughts.
石上布留の高橋高々に妹が待つらむ夜ぞ更けにける
isonokami
As in Isokami
A poem by Ōtomo no sukune Katami.
石上降るとも雨につつまめや妹に逢はむと言ひてしものを
isonokami
At Isonokami in
Ōtomo no Katami
Sedōka Topic unknown.
初瀬河布留川のへに二本ある杉年をへて又もあひ見む二本ある杉
FatusegaFa
The River Hatsuse, and
Anonymous
Left.
wa ga naka o
Our love
Kenshō
Right (Win).
yama fukami
Deep within the mountains
Ietaka
Both teams say the poems have no fault.
In judgement: both poems seem equal in expression, but the quality of the lower section of the Left’s poem is extremely poor, so I make the Right’s ‘from underneath the moss leaks’ (koke no shita moru ) the winner.
Topic unknown.
少女子が袖ふる山の瑞垣の久しき世より思そめてき
wotomego ga
Maidens,
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Left (Tie).
花の色をそれかとぞ思ふ乙女子が袖振山の春の曙
hana no iro ootomego ga
The blossoms’ hue
15
Right
櫻がり霞の下に今日くれぬ一夜宿かせ春の山もり
sakuragari
Hunting cherry
16
While at the same palace and hearing that a lady called the Palace Handmaid had had her hair cut by a man.
よそにかく消えみ消えずみ淡雪の布留の社の神をしぞ思ふ
yoso ni kaku
Far and far away,
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