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Uda-in uta’awase 1

The Day of the Rat (ne no hi 子日)

Left

ほのぼのとみねのひのまづさしつればむすばぬはるのゆきぞとけける

honobono to
mine no hi no mazu
sashitsureba
musubanu haru no
yuki zo tokekeru
Faintly,
Upon the peaks the sun first
Shines, then
Not fully frozen, the spring
Snow melts.

Tsurayuki
1

Right (Win)

かたこひをするがのふじのやまよりもむねのひのまづもえまさるかな

katakoi o
suruga no fuji no
yama yori mo
mune no hi no mazu
moemasaru kana
In love and unrequited,
More than Suruga’s Fuji
Mountain does
The fire in my breast, first
Burn all the greater!

Tomonori
2

GSS XIX: 1306

Sent to the place where a lady, who was going somewhere far away, was preparing for departure.

思ひやる心ばかりはさはらじを何へだつらん峰の白雲

omoFiyaru
kokoro bakari Fa
saFaradi o
nani Fedaturan
mine no sirakumo
The longing for you
In my heart alone
Should be no hindrance, but
Why do you seem distant as
The white clouds round the peaks?

Tachibana no Naomoto
橘直幹

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 76

Left

足引の山のかけはし冬くればこほりのうへをよきぞかねつる

ashihiki no
yama no kakehashi
fuyu kureba
kōri no ue o
yoki zo kanetsuru
To the leg-wearying
Mountain plankways,
When the winter comes
The ice atop them
Is difficult to avoid!

147

Right

ふゆくれば雪ふりつもる高きみね立つ白雲に見えまがふかな

fuyu kureba
yuki furitsumoru
takaki mine
tatsu shirakumo ni
miemagau kana
When the winter comes
The snow fallen, piled high upon
The lofty peaks
With the rising clouds so white
Is easy to confuse!

148

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 65

Left

ほりておきし池は鏡とこほれども影にもみえぬ年ぞ経にける

horiteokishi
ike wa kagami to
kōredomo
kage ni mo mienu
toshi zo henikeru
All dug out
The pond into a mirror
Has frozen, yet
Reflected, I cannot see
The year gone by!

127

Right

降る雪のつもれる峰は白雲のたちもさわがずをるかとぞみる

furu yuki no
tsumoreru mine wa
shirayuki no
tachi mo sawagazu
oru ka to zo miru
The falling snow
Has drifted upon the peaks
Whiteness
Arrives without a rustle
Making me wonder if it’s there at all…

128

Kanpyō no ōntoki chūgū uta’awase 10

Round Ten

Left

千鳥啼くさほの川霧たちぬなり嶺の紅葉の色まさりけり

chidori naku
sao no kawagiri
tachinu nari
mine no momiji no
iro masarikeri
Plovers cry, as
The mists from the Sao River
Have risen;
On the peaks the scarlet leaves’
Hues are fine, indeed.

19

Right

This poem is missing from the surviving texts of the competition.

Kanpyō no ōntoki chūgū uta’awase 6

Round Six

Left

夏山のみねのこずゑのたかければなく郭公こゑかはるかな

natsuyama no
mine no kozue no
takakereba
naku hototogisu
koe kawaru kana
The summer mountain
Peaks have treetops
So high, that
The crying cuckoo’s
Calls stand for them.

11

Right (Win)

おほあらきのもりの下草茂りあひてふかくも夏のなりにけるかな

ōaraki no
mori no shitagusa
moriaite
fukaku mo natsu no
narinikeru kana
In Ōaraki
Forest the undergrowth
Has grown so thick, that
Deep summer is
Surely here!

Mitsune
12

FGS IV: 410

On summer trees, when His Majesty, the Former Emperor, ordered him to produce a thirty poem sequence.

虹のたつふもとの杉は雲にきえて峰よりはるるゆふだちのあめ

niji no tatsu
fumoto no sugi wa
kumo ni kiete
mine yori haruru
yūdachi no ame
A rainbow rises above
Cedars in the foothills,
Vanishing in the clouds
Clearing from the peaks,
With an evening shower of rain.

Former Senior Assistant Governor General of Dazai Toshikane