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Teiji-in uta’awase 07

Left (Win)

さくらちるこのしたかぜはさむからでそらにしられぬゆきぞふりける

sakura chiru
ko no shitakaze wa
samukarade
sora ni shirarenu
yuki zo furikeru
The cherry scattering
Breeze beneath the trees
Lacks chill—
Unaware from within the skies
The snow is falling.

Tsurayuki

13[i]

Right

わがこころはるのやまべにあくがれてながながしひをけふもくらしつ

wa ga kokoro
haru no yamabe ni
akugarete
naganagashi hi o
kyō mo kurashitsu
My heart to
The mountainside in springtime
Is drawn—
The long, long day
Today, too, has reached its dusk.

Mitsune

14[ii]

The Left wins. ‘The Right has “long, long” which is a disagreeable word. It was hissed through pursed lips with drooping shoulders,’ and so it lost.


[i] This poem is included in Shūishū (I: 64), with the headnote, ‘From Former Emperor Uda’s Poetry Contest’.

[ii] This poem is included in Shinkokinshū (I: 81), attributed to Tsurayuki with the headnote ‘A poem from Former Emperor Uda’s Poetry Contest’.

MYS V: 839

波流能努尓 紀理多知和多利 布流由岐得 比得能美流麻提 烏梅能波奈知流

春の野に霧立ちわたり降る雪と人の見るまで梅の花散る

paru no no ni
kiri tatiwatari
puru yuki to
pito no miru made
ume no pana tiru
In the springtime meadows
Filled with spreading mist,
As falling snow
To folk’s eyes appears
The scattering plum blossom.

Denshi no Makami, Clerk of Chikuzen
筑前目田氏真上

Teishi-in ominaeshi uta’awase 19

なにしおへばあはれとおもふををみなへしたれをうしとかまだきうつろふ

na ni shi oeba
aware to omou o
ominaeshi
tare o ushi to ka
madaki utsurou
Bearing such a name,
She is dear, indeed, I feel, that
Maidenflower, but
Who is it that she does despise so,
That she fades so swiftly?

Mareyo
37

ちるはるをみなへしはなはあき風のふかむことをばくるしからじな

chiru haru o
mina heshi hana wa
akikaze no
fukamu koto oba
kurushikaraji na
Scattered in springtime
Have all the blossoms, so
When the autumn wind
Begins to blow
She suffers not, I think…

Motoyuki
38

FGS III: 282

In a hundred poem sequence which he presented to the Hiyoshi Shrine.

春ふかき野でらたちこむる夕霞つつみのこせるかねの音かな

haru fukaki
nodera tachikomuru
yūgasumi
tsutsumi nokoseru
kane no oto kana
Deep in springtime
All around a temple ‘mong the meadows arises
Evening haze,
Lingering to envelop
The tolling of the bell!

Former Major Archbishop Jichin [Jien]
前大僧正慈鎮[慈円]

A Buddhist temple in the evening light.

SCSS I: 15

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
sora mo hitotsu ni
miyuru kana
kore ya kasumeru
haru no akebono
The mountains’ edge and
The sky, too, as one
Do seem!
This is the hazy
Dawn in springtime!

Minamoto no Moromitsu
源師光

An image of hazy mountains at dawn

Sagyokushū II: 325-326

Round 8

Left

花の色はかすみのひまにほのみえて山のはにほふ春の暁

hana no iro wa
kasumi no hima ni
honomiete
yama no ha niou
haru no akebono
The blossoms’ hues
Between the shifting haze
I briefly glimpse, and
The mountains’ edges glow
With the dawn in springtime.

325

Right

あだし夜の花にとききてゆく雁の名残もいとど有明のそら

adashiyo no
hana ni toki kite
yuku kari no
nagori mo itdodo
ariake no sora
To fleeting night’s
Blossoms has the time come, and
The departing geese leave
A keepsake more brief
In the skies at dawn.

326

This round, again, it seems difficult to distinguish between the the two poems.

Former Emperor Gosukō (1372-1456)
後崇光院

GYS I: 101

Rain on a spring evening.

つれづれと雨ふりくらす春の日はつねよりながき物にぞ有りける

tsurezure to
ame furikurasu
haru no hi wa
tsune yori nagaki
mono ni zo arikeru
Idly
The rain falls, darkening
The springtime sun—
How much longer than normal
It does seem to last…

Shōgimon’in[1]


[1] Shōgimon’in 章義門院  (?-1336) was the title given to Imperial Princess Yoshiko 誉子, the second daughter of Emperor Fushimi.