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Kyōgoku no miyasudokoro uta’awase 03

Original

やへたてるみかさのやまのしらくもはみゆきさぶらふさくらなりけり

yae tateru
mikasa no yama no
shirakumo wa
miyuki saburau
sakura narikeri
Standing eightfold high above
Mikasa Mountain,
The clouds of white,
In service to the excursion
Are cherries.

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Left (Win)

よそにてもきみしみつれば山ざくらこころやすくやいまはちるらむ

yoso nite mo
kimi shi mitsureba
yamazakura
kokoro yasuku ya
ima wa chiruramu
Seen from afar, and
Even by my Lady, do
The mountain cherries
Contentedly
Seem to scatter now?

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Right

やへたてるくもゐに見えしさくらばなかへるたむけにけふやちるらん

yae tateru
kumoi ni mieshi
sakurabana
kaeru tamuke ni
kyō ya chiruran
Standing eightfold high
Among the clouds, I seemed to see
Cherry blossoms,
As a memento of our return
Seeming to scatter today.

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Kyōgoku no miyasudokoro uta’awase 02

Original

さくらばなみかさのやまのかげしあればゆきとふるともぬれじとぞおもふ

sakurabana
mikasa no yama no
kage shi areba
yuki to furutomo
nureji to zo omou
When cherry blossom
Upon Mikasa mountain
Shows its shape,
Even should snow fall,
I’ll not get damp, I feel![1]

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Left

このまよりはなのゆきのみちりくるはみかさのやまのもるにざるべき

ko no ma yori
hana no yuki nomi
chirikuru wa
mikasa no yama no
morunizarubeki
Between the trees
Simply a snow of blossom
Comes a’falling—
Mikasa mountain
Will certainly be covered![2]

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Right (Win)

かすがのにゆきとふるてふはなみにぞみかさの山をさしてきにける

kasugano ni
yuki to furu chō
hanami ni zo
mikasa no yama o
sashite kinikeri
Upon Kasuga Plain,
Snow falls, they say—
Indeed, when viewing blossom
On Mikasa mountain, an umbrella
Raise up as you come!

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[1] This is included in Shūishū (XVI: 1056) as an anonymous poem under the heading ‘Topic unknown’.

[2] This poem is included in Shinsenzaishū (II: 152), as an anonymous poem with the headnote: ‘Composed in reply to “When cherry blossom / Upon Mikasa mountain / Shows its shape, / Even should snow fall, / I’ll not get damp, I feel!”, which was among twenty-one poems by provincial officials, when the Kyōgoku Lady of the Bedchamber went to Kasuga.’

Horikawa-in enjo awase 19

つらきをば思ひはれじとおもへども身をしる雨の所せくかな

tsuraki oba
omoihareji to
omoedomo
mi o shiru ame no
tokoroseku kana
Your cruelty
Would never vanish from my thoughts,
I felt, but
The gentle rain knows me too well—
How unmanageable it is!

Kodashin
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In reply.

おもはずにふりそふ雨の歎をばみかさの山をさしてちかはん

omowazu ni
furisou ame no
nageki oba
mikasa no yama o
sashite chikanan
Unexpectedly,
Rainfall covers all
With grief, as
On Mount Mikasa, my umbrella
I raise as it draws near.

Supernumerary Middle Counsellor Toshitada
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SKS IX: 335

When the Go-nijō Regent [Fujiwara no Moromichi] was angry about some problematic circumstances, Nakamasa was at his residence, and did not present this to him directly, but said to the ladies in waiting.

三笠山さすがに蔭に隱ろへてふるかひもなきあめの下哉

mikasayama
sasuga ni kage ni
kakuroFete
Furu kaFi mo naki
ame no sita kana
On Mount Mikasa
Indeed, by the shade
I am concealed, yet
Continuing on seems pointless
Under such a rain.

Minamoto no Nakamasa
源仲正

SKKS XI: 1011

Sent to a woman with whom he had been exchanging letters, when he heard that a superior in the same office had been visiting her.

白雲の峰にしもなどかよふらんおなじ三笠の山のふもとを

shirakumo no
mine nishimo nado
kayouran
onaji mikasa no
yama no fumoto o
These clouds of white,
Why do they cluster ‘round the peak?
Coming and going
From the selfsame Mikasa
Mountain’s foot…

Fujiwara no Yoshitaka (954-974)

Miscellaneous 92

Left (Tie).

和歌の浦やなぎたる朝のみをつくし朽ちねかひなき名だに殘らで

waka no ura
yanagitaru asa no
miotsukushi
kuchine kainaki
na dani nokorade
At Waka Bay
In the calm of morning,
The channel buoys stand: exhausted
I crumble, not even my useless
Name remaining to me.

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Right (Tie).

思ひかね我夕暮の秋の日に三笠の山はさしはなれにき

omoikane
ware yūgure no
aki no hi ni
mikasa no yama wa
sashihanareniki
I cannot think on it more:
Here, in my evening,
Autumn days,
Mikasa Mountain is
Far away, indeed…

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