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Hon’in sadaijin-ke uta’awase 04

Maidenflowers

Left

なびくとや人はみるらんをみなへしおもふかたにぞかぜもふきける

nabiku to ya
hito wa miruran
ominaeshi
omou kata ni zo
kaze mo fukikeru
‘Are they trailing?’
Folk wonder at the sight of
The maidenflowers, and
As they thought
The wind, too, was blowing…

7

Right

おほかたののべなるよりはをみなへしねやのつまにてみるはまされり

ōkata no
nobe naru yori wa
ominaeshi
neya no tsuma nite
miru wa masareri
So wide are
The plains, but I’d rather
A maidenflower—
My wife in the bedchamber:
Seeing her is better far!

8

Teishi-in ominaeshi uta’awase 24

をみなへしなどかあきしもにほふらむはなのこころをひともしれとか

ominaeshi
nadoka aki shimo ni
niouramu
hana no kokoro o
hito mo shire to ka
O, maidenflower,
Why is it that, of all, in autumn
You would glow so bright?
Of a fickle flower’s heart
Folk to inform, perhaps…

47

てをとらばひとやとがめむをみなへしにほへるのべにやどやからまし

te o toraba
hito ya togamemu
ominaeshi
nioeru nobe ni
yado ya karamashi
Should I put my hands on you,
By folk would I be despised,
O, maidenflower, so
In the meadow where you shine
Would I borrow lodging…

48

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いまよりはなでておほさむをみなへしときあるあきにあふとおもへば

ima yori wa
nadete ōsamu
ominaeshi
toki aru aki ni
au to omoeba
From this point on
With gentle caresses will I raise
This maidenflower,
That an auspicious autumn
She would meet—I thought…

Nochikata
31

あきぎりにゆくへやまどふをみなへしはかなくのべにひとりほのめく

akigiri ni
yukue ya madou
ominaeshi
hakanaku nobe ni
hitori honomeku
In the autumn mists
Has she lost her way?
A maidenflower
Fleetingly in the meadows
Did I faintly glimpse alone…

Susugu
32

Teishi-in ominaeshi uta’awase 11

Left         Final Round

をみなへしこのあきまでぞまさるべきつゆをもぬきてたまにまどはせ

ominaeshi
kono aki made zo
masarubeki
tsuyu o mo nukite
tama ni madowase
The maidenflowers
This autumn
Have been fine, indeed—
Strung with dewdrops
As pearls let you be!

His Majesty
21[1]

Right

きみによりのべをはなれしをみなへしおなじこころにあきをとどめよ

kimi ni yori
nobe o hanareshi
ominaeshi
onaji kokoro ni
aki o todomeyo
For My Lord
Have you left your meadows,
O, maidenflower,
Wishing as we,
Autumn—hold here!

Her Majesty, the Empress

22[2]

The flowers of the Right were inferior, but the poems of the Right won.


[1] Shinsen man’yōshū 528

[2] Shinsen man’yōshū 548

Teishi-in ominaeshi uta’awase 05

Left

あさぎりとのべにむれたるをみなへしあきをすぐさずいひもとめなん

asagiri to
nobe ni muretaru
ominaeshi
aki o sugusazu
ii mo tomenan
Amid the morning mists
Upon the meadow clusters
A maidenflower
I’ll not let autumn pass by
Without a word to hold her here.

9

Right

あきかぜのふきそめしよりをみなへしいろふかくのみみゆるのべかな

akikaze no
fukisomeshi yori
ominaeshi
iro fukaku nomi
miyuru nobe kana
Since the autumn wind
First began to blow,
The maidenflowers’
Hues have simply deepened,
Glimpsed upon the meadows!

10

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 63

Left

雪ふりて年のくれゆく時にこそ終にもみぢぬ松も見えけれ

yuki furite
toshi no kurenuru
toki ni koso
tsui ni momijinu
matsu mo miekere
Snow falls and
The year reaches its evening,
It is at this time that
Truly, evergreen
The pine tree seems.

123[1]

Right

我が宿は雪ふる野辺に道もなしいづこはかとか人のとめこむ

wa ga yado wa
yuki furu nobe ni
michi mo nashi
izuko wa ka to ka
hito no tomekomu
My home lies
Upon the snow-covered plain
With no path to it;
‘Where might it lie?’ ask
Folk come a’searching.

124


[1] Kokinshū VI: 340/Kokin rokujō I: 244

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 45

Left

をみなへし匂へる野辺にやどりせばあやなくあだの名をやたちなん

ominaeshi
nioeru nobe ni
yadoriseba
ayanaku ada no
na o ya tachinan
A maidenflower
Shines in the meadows, and
Should I find lodging there,
Carelessly, would fickle
Rumour arise?

Ono no Yoshiki
88

Right

秋風にさそはれ来つる雁がねの雲ゐはるかにけふぞ聞ゆる

akikaze ni
sasowarekitsuru
kari ga ne no
kumoi haruka ni
kyō zo kikoyuru
On the autumn breeze
Has come, inviting,
A goose’s cry
From among the distant clouds
Today I hear it.

89

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 18

Left

梅がかを袖にうつしてとどめては春はすぐともかたみならまし

mume ga ka o
sode ni utushite
todometeba
haru wa sugutomo
katami naramashi
If only the plums’ scent
Would shift to my sleeves and
Stay there, then
Even when spring is past and gone
A keepsake would it be…

35[1]

Right

行く春の跡だにありと見ましかば野べのまにまにとめましものを

yuku haru no
ato dani ari to
mimashikaba
nobe no manimani
tomemashi mono o
Departing spring’s
Very tracks
I would I saw, so
Simply in the meadows
Would I remain!

36


[1] Kokinshū I: 46/Shinsen man’yōshū 21