Round Three
Left (Win)
春の夜のあくる霞の立田山これや神代の衣なるらん
haru no yo no akuru kasumi no tatsutayama kore ya kamiyo no koromo naruran At a spring night’s
Supernumerary Major Counsellor Moto’ie
Right
朝霞雲居をかけて見わたせばいたりいたらぬ山の端もなし
asagasumi kumoi o kakete miwataseba itari itaranu yama no ha mo nashi When, upon the morning haze
Nobunari, Senior Third Rank
Both Left and Right are difficult to tell apart, yet the Left’s ‘clothing of the Age of Gods’ would seem to be superior.
Composed as a poem on blossom.
花もまたわかれん春はおもひ出でよさきちるたびの心づくしを
hana mo mata O, blossom, will you, too,
Inpumon’in no Taiyu
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春くれば袖のこほりもとけにけりもりくる月しやどるばかりに
haru kureba Now that spring has come,
Major Archbishop Gyōson
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Composed on the conception of the beginning of spring, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.
雪ふかきいはのかけみち跡たゆるよしののさとも春はきにけり
yuki Fukaki Where snow lay deep
Taikenmon’in no Horikawa
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Composed saying he would pass the barrier at Meeting Hill at night.
あふ坂の関には人もなかりけりいは井の水のもるにまかせて
aFusaka no At Meeting Hill’s
Hōribe no Narinaka
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Composed on the conception of love at the end of the Third Month.
春はをし人はこよひとたのむればおもひわづらふ今日のくれかな
Faru Fa wosi Regretting the departure of spring, and
The Minister of the Centre
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Composed on spending spring accompanied by nothing but blossom.
ちらぬ間は花をともにて過ぎぬべし春よりのちのしる人もがな
tiranu ma Fa While still unscattered
The Hanazono Minister of the Left
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Composed on the conception of visiting distant blossom in the mountains, on a day when he was due to return after paying a visit to the residence of the regent.
たづねつる花のあたりになりにけりにほふにしるしはるの山かぜ
tazuneturu I have paid a visit to
Former Emperor Sutoku
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From among twenty poems he presented to a certain Chamberlain, wishing His Majesty to see them, during the same reign when he was serving in the Banqueting Section of the Royal Table Office and grieving that he was falling into obscurity.
いづことも春のひかりはわかなくにまだみよしのの山は雪ふる
iduko tomo Everywhere should fall
Mitsune
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When he went to the Unrin’in to view the cherry blossom, it was all scattered with but a single branch left.
たづねつる花も我が身もおとろへてのちの春ともえこそちぎらね
tazunetsuru Paying a visit on
Monk Ryōzen
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