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Nishinomiya uta'awase

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Round Twelve

Left

あふことをいなみ野に咲く女郎花をらぬものゆゑ袖ぞ露けき

au koto o
inamino ni saku
ominaeshi
oranu mono yue
sode zo tsuyukeki		A meeting she
Declines—blooming upon Inami Plain,
A maidenflower
I have not picked, yet
How dew-drenched my sleeves!

Taiyu no Suke
23

Right

うき人の心なりせばをみなへし吹くとも風になびかざらまし

ukibito no
kokoro nariseba
ominaeshi
fuku tomo kaze ni
nabikazaramashi		That cruel girl’s
Heart did they but have, then
The maidenflowers,
With the gusting of the wind
Would not bend at all, no doubt…

Tadasue
24

‘With the gusting of the wind’ and so forth sounds more in keeping with the topic at present than ‘blooming upon Inami Plain, / A maidenflower’.

Nishinomiya uta'awase

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Round Nine

Left

忍びねを我が袖のみと思ひしを劣らざりけり萩の下露

shinobine o
wa ga sode nomi to
omoishi o
otorazarikeri
hagi no shitazuyu		Secretly
Upon my sleeves, alone,
I thought, but
‘Twas not lesser than
The dewfall ‘neath the bush clover.

Minor Captain Kin’nori, Fourth Rank
17

Right

色かはる萩の下葉の露けさは我が身のうへと成りにけるかな

iro kawaru
hagi no shitaba no
tsuyukesa wa
wa ga mi no ue to
narinikeru kana		A change of hue
To the bush clover’s underleaves
Drenched with dew—
Upon my sorry self
Has it befallen, too!

Tadasue, Senior Assistant Minister of the Sovereign’s Household
18

The image of the droplets of secretly wept upon the poet’s sleeves not being less than those of the dewdrops beneath the bush clover appears extremely charming and moving. In addition, the pain expressed by one’s sorry self being as dew-drenched as the bush clover’s underleaves—this has left my own sleeves, both left and right, seeming as soaked with dewdrops from the bush clover.

Yōzei'in miko futari uta'awase

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Left

こひしきにねざめてみをぞうきなみのよるぞかなしきそでのひつまで

koishiki ni
nezamete mi o zo
ukinami no
yoru zo kanashiki
sode no hitsu made		Filled with love
I do awake, but
Waves of depression drift,
Breaking the night with sadness
Until my sleeves are drenched through…

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Right

うつつにもゆめにもみえずなりぬればさむるよなよなねをのみぞなく

utsutsu ni mo
yume ni mo miezu
narinureba
samuru yonayona
ne o nomi zo naku		In both reality, and
Dreams I see her not—
When it comes to that, then
On waking night after night
Will I simply weep!

18

Gyokuyōshū

GYS IX: 1249

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On the same conception, when the Lay Priest and Former Chancellor had ten poem sequences composed at his residence.

いまよりの涙のはてよいかならん恋ひそむるだに袖はぬれけり

ima yori no
namida no hateyo
ika naran
koisomuru dani
sode wa nurekeri		From this moment
Cease, my tears!
What has occurred?
Why, love’s first tint is all
That wets my sleeves.

Former Major Counsellor Tame’uji

Shikashū

SKS VI: 179

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Sent in a letter when one of the lads who was an acolyte of his departed for a distant province, accompanying his father.

わかれぢの草葉をわけむ旅ごろもたつよりかねてぬるるそでかな

wakaredi no
kusaba wo wakemu
tabigoromo
tatu yori kanete
nururu sode kana		Along the path that parts us,
Forging through the leafy grasses
In your traveller’s garb
Since you have left, and before
How soaked are my sleeves!

Dharma Master Yūzen

Naidaijin-ke uta’awase gen’ei gan-nen jūgatsu futsuka

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Round Seven

Left

恋せじとおもひなるせによる浪のかへりてそれもくるしかりけり

koiseji to
omoinaru se ni
yoru nami no
kaerite sore mo
kurushikarikeri		I’ll love you no more,
Did I come to think, the crash of
Breaking waves
Returning, but that, too
Has brought me pain.

Lord Kanemasa
61

Right (Both Judges – Win)

玉藻かる忍ぶの浦の蜑だにもいとかく袖はぬるるものかは

tamamo karu
shinobu no ura no
ama dani mo
ito kaku sode wa
nururu mono ka wa		Reaping gemweed
On Shinobu shore,
Do even the fisherfolk
Have sleeves so very
Drenched, indeed?

Lord Masamitsu
62

Toshiyori states: both of these are charming, however, a line from a famous poem is used for as the initial section, and in such cases the new poem should not closely evoke the source. Someone once said something similar, a long time ago. It’s a bit inferior, isn’t it.

Mototoshi states: neither of these contain any errors, yet the section following the central ‘crash of / Breaking waves’ seems intermittently painful, with sleeves damper than those of the fisherfolk on Shinobu shore. It seems a bit better at present.