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Sumiyoshi-sha uta’awase kaō ni-nen 55

Round Five

Left (Win)

くらゐやまみねのさくらをかざしても人はものをやなほおもふらむ

kuraiyama
mine no sakura o
kazashitemo
hito wa mono o ya
nao omouramu
Even should I Mount Kurai’s
Cherry blossom from the peak
Wear in my hair,
As a man would such gloomy
Thoughts still fill me?

Lord Sane’ie
109

Right

ありてこそあらぬすがたになりもせめうしとていかがみをばなぐべき

arite koso
aranu sugata ni
nari mo seme
ushi tote ikaga
mi oba nagubeki
I live on, so
My former state
I have abandoned;
How can I all the cruelties
Cast from my flesh?

Atsuyori
110

The Left’s configuration and conception are truly charming. The writer is troubled, isn’t he! In particular, the configuration of ‘As a man would such gloomy / Thoughts still fill me?’ sounds especially pleasant. For the Right, the tone of ‘How can I all the cruelties’ also seems pleasant, but still, I make the Left the winner.

Yasuakira shinnō tachihaki no jin uta’awase 07

Mist

Left (Tie)

うすしともみゆるものからさほやまのみねのあきぎりあきたちにけり

usushi to mo
miyuru mono kara
saoyama no
mine no akigiri
aki tachinikeri
Faint
Does it appear, so with
Mount Sao’s
Peak in autumn mists
Autumn has come!

Taira no Tōmi
13

Right

あさぎりはたつともみえずいとどしきをぐらのやまのふもととおもへば

asagiri wa
tatsu mo miezu
itodoshiki
ogura no yama no
fumoto to omoeba
The morning mists
Arise, and hidden
Even more are
Gloomy Mount Ogura’s
Foothills…

Taira no Sanenao
14

SIS XVI: 1026

On a Day of the Rat, when Major Captain of the Right Sanesuke was lower in rank.

おいの世にかかるみゆきは有りきやとこだかき峯の松にとはばや

oi no yo ni
kakaru miyuki Fa
ariki ya to
kodakaki mine no
matu ni toFaba ya
In ancient ages
Did ever such a progress
Occur?
On the high, tree-covered peak
I would ask the pines…

’Kiyowara no Motosuke

Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta’awase 23

Round Eleven

Left

さをしかの空にあはれときこゆるは山のたかねになけばなりけり

saoshika no
sora ni aware to
kikoyuru wa
yama no takane ni
nakeba narikeri
A stag belling
To the skies, sadly
I hear—
Perhaps, because ‘tis on the mountain’s peak
He cries so…

Lord Masahira

45

Right (Win)

ゆふまぐれ霧のまがきのさびしさにをしか鳴くなり秋の山里

yūmagure
kiri no magaki no
sabishisa ni
oshika nakunari
aki no yamazato
Tangled in twilight
With mist around my brushwood fence,
Loneliness fills me, as
A stag bells, by
A mountain retreat in autumn

Shinkaku
46

What on earth is the conception of ‘sadly hearing something in the skies’? While no one can truly know why a stag bells, what is the point of saying that ‘sadness is in the skies’? And if one does hear it, it isn’t the case that anyone really knows that the stag is belling out of longing for his mate, is it. The stag seeming to bell by a brushwood fence in the mist, seems to sound a bit more moving at the moment.