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Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta’awase 20

Round Eight

Left

やまかぜにしほるる野べの草むらのねやさむしとや鹿の鳴くらん

yamakaze ni
shioruru nobe no
kusamura no
neya samushi to ya
shika no nakuran
The mountain wind
Withers the meadow’s
Clumps of grasses—
Is it his chilly bedchamber
That makes the stag cry out?

Moromitsu
39

Right (Win)

あはれとはねらふさつをも思ふらんをしか妻どふ秋の夕ぐれ

aware to wa
nerau satsuo mo
omouran
oshika tsumadobu
aki no yūgure
‘How sad,’
The aiming hunter, too,
Seems to think, as
The stag searches for his mate
On an autumn evening…

Lay Priest Sanekiyo
40

The Left shows no technique from beginning to end, compounded by the fact that, while ‘although the stag does lie’ is a common expression in poetry, ‘bedchamber’ is something I am unaccustomed to hearing. As for the Right, ‘aiming hunter’ is distasteful to hear, but the poem is not bad overall, so it wins.

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Round Twelve

Left

我がやどものこる花なくうゑつれど野べのけしきは猶ぞ床しき

wa ga yado mo
nokoru hana naku
uetsuredo
nobe no keshiki wa
nao zo yukashiki
At my dwelling
Lingering blooms are there none
Though I did plant them,
The prospect of a meadow is
Charming still!

Lord Fujiwara no Kiyosuke, Senior Secretary of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office
23

Right

秋萩の枝もとををにおく露のはらはばあやな花やちりなん

akihagi no
eda mo tōo ni
oku tsuyu no
harawaba aya na
hana ya chirinan
The autumn bush-clover
Branches bent with
Fallen dewdrops—
Should I sweep them off, then
Would the blossoms scatter, I wonder?

Lay Priest and Master of the Left Capital Office Norinaga
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Doesn’t the Right seem to resemble the poem in the Ancient and Modern Collection which says

をりてみば落ちぞしぬべき秋萩の枝もとををにおけるしら露

oritemiba
ochi zo shinubeki
akihagi no
eda mo t
ōo ni
okeru shiratsuyu
Were I to pluck one,
‘Twould fall and smash:
Autumn bush-clover’s
Branches bent
With fallen silver dewdrops.

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Round Nine

Left (Win)

女郎花いづれの秋かみえざりし野原の霧に立ちなかくれそ

ominaeshi
izure no aki ka
miezarishi
nohara no kiri ni
tachi na kakure so
O, maidenflower,
In which autumn is it, that
You have remained unseen?
In the mists upon the meadow
Stand and don’t hide yourself!

Kataoka Shrine Priest Kamo no Masahira
17

Right

心から夜のまの露にしほたれてあさじめりする女郎花かな

kokoro kara
yo no ma no tsuyu ni
shiotarete
asajimerisuru
ominaeshi kana
Her heart
Throughout the night with dewdrops
Drenches her,
Dripping with morning tears is
The maidenflower!

Fujiwara no Koreyuki, Supernumerary Junior Assistant Minster of the Sovereign’s Household
18

The Left is extremely absorbingly composed. As for the Right, though, I wonder about the use of being ‘drenched with dewdrops’—while it does put me in mind of fisherfolk at Ise, because it fails to indicate anything in the conception of the topic, it should lose, I think.

Minshū 2819

[One of] Five love poems in a Twenty Poem Sequence composed in his retreat in Kenryaku 2 [1212].

あらち山やた野の浅茅色付きぬ人の心の峰の淡雪

arachiyama
yatano no asaji
irozukinu
hito no kokoro no
mine no awayuki
By Arachi Mountain,
In Yata meadow the cogon grass
Has taken on passion’s hues, but
My lady’s heart is
A peak covered in snow-spume.

Ietaka

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

Uda-in uta’awase 5

Cherry Blossom

Left (Tie)

わがそのへいざかへりなむあさがほのひとはなさくらのはなりにけり

wa ga sono e
iza kaerinamu
asagao no
hito hana sakura
no wa narinikeri
To my garden,
Well, I must return, for
A morning glory’s
Single bloom in flower seems
To have turned it to a meadow.

Okikaze
9

Right

はるはきぬたねにまくべきいねはなさくらのはなへにおろしはててよ

haru wa kinu
tane ni makubeki
ine wa nasa
kura no hanae ni
oroshihateteyo
Spring has come, and
The seeds must be sown;
No seedlings sprout
Beside the storehouse
Sow them all!

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