朝霞たなびく野辺にあしひきの山霍公鳥いつか来鳴かむ
| asagasumi tanabiku nobe ni asipiki nö yama pototogisu ituka kinakamu |
The morning haze Drifts across the fields; Leg-wearying Mountain cuckoo, When will you come and call? |
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KKS I: 15
MYS XVI: 3862
Kokin rokujō V: 3553
Love V: 4
Left (Win).
君ゆへにいとふも悲し鐘の聲やがて我世もふけにし物を
| kimi yue ni itou mo kanashi kane no koe yagate wa ga yo mo fukenishi mono o |
For lack of you, I am In sorrow and despite; The tolling of the bell reveals That so swiftly has my life Reached its eventide… |
A Servant Girl.
847
Right.
玉箒手にとる程も思きやかりにも戀を滋賀の山人
| tamahōki te ni toru hodo mo omoiki ya kari ni mo koi o shiga no yamabito |
A jewelled broom I’ll take in hand now, Could that have been my thought? Briefly in love now as The old man of Shiga Mountain! |
Ietaka.
848
The Right state: we wonder about the appropriateness of ‘swiftly’ (yagate). The Left state: should one mention a monk in a poem about Love?
In judgement: the configuration of the Left’s ‘In sorrow and despite; the tolling of the bell’ (itou mo kanashi kane no koe) sounds pleasant, so ‘swiftly’ does not seem unsuited. The Left wins.
Tadamichishū 87
yoru no hodo ni
KKS II: 108
Composed when it was said that a poetry competition was to be held at the residence of the Middle Captain Lady of the Bedchamber in the Ninna period.[1]
花のちることやわびしき春霞たつたの山のうぐひすのこゑ
| Fana no tiru koto ya wabisiki Farugasumi tatuta no yama no uguFisu no kowe | The falling of the flowers Is sad, indeed; In the spring haze On Tatsuta Mountain A warbler cries… |
Fujiwara no Chikage
[1] It was taboo to record the personal names of noble women of high rank unless they were made empress. The Ninna 仁和 period began on the 11th day of the Third Month, 885, and lasted until the 30th day of the Fifth Month, 889. ‘Lady of the Bedchamber’ (miyasudokoro 御息所) was a title given to imperial consorts who had given birth to a prince, while ‘Middle Captain’ (chūjō 中将) was a military position in the palace guards. Contemporary readers would have been able to identify who the ‘Lady who had given birth to an imperial prince and whose father held the position of Middle Captain during the Ninna period’ was, but modern scholarship has not done so; nor have full records of this poetry competition survived.