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Yōzei-in uta’awase (Engi jūsan-nen kugatsu kokonoka) 05

Left (Tie)

しぐれつつ草ばもなべてもみづともときはの山にあきはとまれり

shiguretsutsu
kusaba mo nabete
momizu to mo
tokiwa no yama ni
aki wa tomareri
Ever falls the drizzling rain, and
Both leaves and grasses, all,
Take on autumn hues, yet
Within the evergreen mountains
Autumn has halted.

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Right

をしめども秋はとまらぬ竜田山もみぢを幣とそらにたむけん

oshimedomo
aki wa tomaranu
tatsutayama
momiji o nusa to
sora ni tamuken
How I regret it, yet
Autumn does not linger upon
Tatsuta Mountain:
Its autumn leaves as a garland
To the skies it seems to offer.

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