Round Four
Left (Win)
あけぬるか霞の衣たちかへり猶君が代の春をまつかな
akenuru ka kasumi no koromo tachikaeri nao kimi ga yo no haru o matsu kana Is it the breaking dawn that
Novice Dōchin
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Right
天の戸のあけゆく空はうれしきを猶はれやらず立つ霞かな
ama no to no akeyuku sora wa ureshiki o nao hareyarazu tatsu kasumi kana That Heaven’s door
Dharma Master Nyogan
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The Left poem’s links with celebration are certainly not something praiseworthy, but I am unable to accept the Right’s ‘joy’. Thus, the Left wins.
When the moon was shining brightly, when a shower-filled sky had cleared.
五月雨の空だにすめる月影に涙の雨ははるるまもなし
samidare no Showers filled
Akazome Emon
Created with Soan .
When she had something on her mind and was unable to sleep, she sat awake all night gazing at the bright moon until dawn, and composed this when her garden became slightly darkened by a shower.
神無月あり明の空のしぐるるを又われならぬ人やみるらん
kaminaduki In the Godless Month
Akazome Emon
Created with Soan .
A poem in reply.
忘れゆくことしなければたえだえにみえけむくももそらめなるらむ
wasure yuku koto shi nakereba taedae ni miekemu kumo mo sorame naruramu Forgetting you is
Created with Soan .
When His Majesty ordered him to compose a poem for a love letter match, during the reign of former emperor Nijō.
わすれゆく人ゆゑそらをながむればたえだえにこそ雲もみえけれ
wasure yuku Forgetting me, [i]
Minister of Justice Norikane
Created with Soan . [i] See Shige’ie-shū 232 for the reply to this poem in the match..
When a man she had been seeing had failed to visit for a long time, she sent him this in the Longest Month.
おほかたのあきのそらだにかなしきにものおもひそふ昨日今日かな
oFokata no As ever,
Ukon
Created with Soan .
Azaleas
Left
かりがねにおもひかけつつしのばな んあまつそらなるわが身なりとも
kari ga ne ni omoikaketsutsu shinobana n ama tsu sora naru wa ga mi naritomo Upon the goose cries
Sadafun
Right
うぐひすのこゑなつかしくなきつるはのちもこひつつしのばな むとか
uguisu no koe natsukashiku nakitsuru wa nochi mo koitsutsu shinobana mu to ka Does the warbler’s
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A place where a flute is playing.
ふえのねはすみぬなれどもふくかぜになべてもかすむはるの空かな
fue no ne wa The flute’s notes
Fujiwara no Takatō (949-1013)
Composed on morning haze for the Poetry Contest at the Residence of the Kyōgoku Regent.
春の夜のおぼろ月夜やこれならむかすみにくもるありあけのそら
haru no yo no Is a spring night’s
Tango, in service to Empress Gishūmon’in
A spring poem, from when he composed a fifty-poem sequence at the residence of Cloistered Prince Shukaku.
山のはもそらもひとつに見ゆるかなこれやかすめるはるのあけぼの
yama no ha mo The mountains’ edge and
Minamoto no Moromitsu
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