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水鳥の下安からぬ思ひにはあたりの水もこほらさりけり
| mizutori no shita yasukaranu omoi ni wa atari no mizu mo kōrazarikeri |
A dabchick: Beneath all is unquiet – From the fires of his passion The waters all around Remain unfrozen. |
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Fubokushō XXVIII: 13481
Kokin rokujō VI: 3557
GSIS VII: 456
When he had first gone to the residence of the former Regent and Rokujō Minister, and people were composing on the conception of long clear pond waters.
今年だに鏡と見ゆる池水の千世経てすまむ影ぞゆかしき
| kotosi dani kagami to miyuru ikemidu no tiyo Fete sumamu kage zo yukasiki |
Especially this year A mirror it does seem: This pond water – Clear through the passage of a thousand ages, How I long for its light! |
Fujiwara no Norinaga
藤原範永
Eikyū hyakushu 120
Shigeyuki-shū 94
Omuro gojusshu 66
KYS II: 138
A poem composed on the conception of showers at a poetry competition held at the house of Lord Toshitada.
五月雨に水まさるらし沢田川真木の継橋うきぬばかりに
| samidare ni midu masarurasi sawadagaFa maki no tugiFasi ukinu bakari ni |
In the showers The waters seem to rise so high At Sawada River That the bridge of boards Does just float upon it! |
Fujiwara no Akinaka (1059-1129)
藤原顕仲
This poem is also:
Sakon gonchūjō toshitada ason ke uta’awase 6
左近権中将俊忠朝臣家歌合
(‘Poetry Contest held at the Residence of Lord Toshitada, Provisional Middle Captain of the Inner Palace Guards, Left Division’; 1104)
Spring I: 13
Left (Win).
つらゝゐし汀を渡る春風に池のこゝろも解けやしぬらん
| tsuraraishi migiwa o wataru harukaze ni ike no kokoro mo toke ya shinuran |
The ice-bound Waters’ edge a’crossing goes The breath of spring; Has the mere’s heart, too, Melted? |
25
Right.
雪つもろ峰に春日やさしつらむ谷の小川の水まさり行
| yuki tsumoru mine ni haruhi ya sashitsuramu tani no ogawa no mizu masariyuku |
Upon the snow-laden Peaks has the spring sun Shone? For the valley streamlets are With water overflowing… |
26
Neither team had anything deep to say about the other’s poem this round.
Shunzei states that, while both are of the same quality, the phrase ‘spring sun’ (haruhi) was not one that he liked to see used (why remains unclear, although there is speculation that it was because it was an ancient term dating from the Man’yōshū), and so the Left’s poem was just the winner.