Round 5
Left (Win)
朝日影まだ出でやらぬ足引の山はかすみの色ぞうつろふ
| asahi kage mada ideyaranu ashihiki no yama wa kasumi no iro zo utsurou | The morning sunlight Has yet to fall upon The leg-wearying Mountains, yet the haze’s Hues are shifting. |
Takasuke, Gentleman-in-Waiting
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Right
山姫のかすみのそでも紅に光そへたる朝日影かな
| yamahime no kasumi no sode mo kurenai ni hikari soetaru asahi kage kana | The mountain princess has Her sleeves of haze turned Scarlet Draped with light by The morning sunshine! |
Shimotsuke
10
The Left’s poem has no faults worth pointing out; the poem of the Right’s ‘morning sunlight draping scarlet light across the sleeves of haze’ is overly gorgeous, I think, while the Left seems perfectly beautiful, so it should win.
Poems composed for a folding screen for the Minister of the Right in Jōhei 7 [937]: Women gazing at the scarlet plum blossom they had picked beneath the trees.
雪とのみあやまたれつつ梅花くれなゐにさへかよひけるかな
| yuki to nomi aya mataretsutsu mume no hana kurenai ni sae kayoikeru kana | For the snow alone, O, have we ever waited, while The plum blossom Simply in scarlet Has scattered back and forth. |
よもぎふに露のおきしくあきのよはひとりぬるみもそでぞぬれける
| yomogyū ni tsuyu no okishiku aki no yo wa hitori nuru mi mo sode zo nurekeru | Upon the mugwort The dew falls, scattered On an autumn night; Sleeping alone, my Sleeves are drenched, indeed! |
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あしひきの山べによするしらなみはくれなゐふかくあきぞ見えける
| ashihiki no yamabe ni yosuru shiranami wa kurenai fukaku aki zo miekeru | Upon the leg-wearying Mountain meadows break The whitecaps; A deeper scarlet Does autumn reveal. |
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Scarlet lotus flowers floating on marsh water (緑沼紅蓮浮)
Left (Win)
みどりぬにうきたるはちすくれなゐにみづにごるなり波たつなゆめ
| midorinu ni ukitaru hatisu kurenawi ni midu nigorunari nami tatu na yume | Upon the green marsh Floats a lotus Its scarlet Stains the waters – O, rise not, you waves! |
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Right
紅のはちすうきたるみどりぬにしら波たてばこきまぜの花
| kurenawi no Fatisu ukitaru midorinu ni siranami tateba kokimaze no Fana | Scarlet, The lotus floats upon The green marsh, but When the whitecaps rise All jumbled will the flowers be… |
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[1]These poems are included in Fubokushō (XXIV: 11386) and (XXIV: 11387).
