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 spring poem, when he presented poems to the Poetry Office.
葛城やたかまの桜さきにけりたつたのおくにかかる白雲
kazuragi ya In Kazuragi, [1]
Jakuren
Created with Soan . [1] An allusive variation on KKS I: 59 and Wakan rōeishū II: 409/SKKS XI: 990 .
Composed for the Palace Poetry Match in Eishō 4.
あらしふくみむろの山のもみぢばはたつたの川のにしきなりけり
arasi Fuku The storm wind blowing
Monk Nōin
Created with Soan .
Composed on the conception of falling leaves.
たつた山ふもとの里はとほけれどあらしのつてにもみぢをぞみる
tatutayama Tatsuta Mountain
Hōribe no Narinaka
Created with Soan .
Left (Tie)
しぐれつつ草ばもなべてもみづともときはの山にあきはとまれり
shiguretsutsu kusaba mo nabete momizu to mo tokiwa no yama ni aki wa tomareri Ever falls the drizzling rain, and
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Right
をしめども秋はとまらぬ竜田山もみぢを幣とそらにたむけん
oshimedomo aki wa tomaranu tatsutayama momiji o nusa to sora ni tamuken How I regret it, yet
10
たつたやまあきをみなへし すぐさねばおくるぬさこそもみぢなりけれ
tatsutayama aki o mina heshi sugusaneba okuru nusa koso momiji narikere On Tatsuta Mountain
Motoyori
あきぎりをみなへし なびくふくかぜをこのひともとにはなはちるらし
akigiri o mina heshi nabiku fuku kaze o kono hitomoto ni hana wa chirurashi The autumn mists
Yoshikaze
Ivy
秋霧の竜田の紅葉色深く時雨染めてやはひもさすらん
akigiri no In the autumn mists
Daishin,Lady-in-Waiting from the Rokujō Palace
Composed when it was said that a poetry competition was to be held at the residence of the Ninna Middle Captain Lady of the Bedchamber.
Fana no tiru The falling of the flowers
Fujiwara no Chikage
1[1]
Composed when it was said that a poetry competition was to be held at the residence of the Ninna Middle Captain Lady of the Bedchamber.
osi to omoFu A regretful
Sosei
2[2]
[1] This poem is included in Kokinshū (II: 108 ).
[2] This poem is included in Kokinshū (II: 114 ) and also in Sosei-shū 素性集 (16), where in some versions the headnote reads ‘[Composed] on the profusion of blossom when it was decided there would be poetry match at the residence of the Ninnaji Middle Captain Lady of the Bedchamber’.
竜田川岸の山吹咲きぬれば影より波ぞ折りはじめける
tatsutagawa
On Tatsuta River’s
Tsunemasa
風のおる波のあやをや夏衣竜田川とは言ひ流すらむ
kaze no oru
Does the wind weave
Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu
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