Left (Win).
冴ゆる夜に鴛鴦の衾を方敷きて袖の氷を拂ひかねつゝ
sayuru yo ni
On a freezing night
A Servant Girl .
577
Right.
木の葉をや鳥の上毛に殘すらん閨の衾も冴ゆる霜夜に
ko no ha o ya
Are there any leaves
Jakuren .
578
Neither Left nor Right have anything in particular to say.
Shunzei’s judgement: I wonder about accepting the Left’s ‘Beneath my duck-down bedding I lie alone’ (oshi no fusuma o katashikite ). The strengths and weaknesses are plain, and so there is not much more to say than that. The Left wins.
[One of ] twenty-four poems sent by Lady Kasa to Ōtomo no Yakamochi.
白鳥の鳥羽山松の待ちつつそ我が戀ひわたるこの月ごろを
siratori no
As a white dove on
Lady Kasa
Left (Tie).
今のまの我身にかぎる鳥のねを誰うきものと歸りそめけん
ima no ma no
At this time
121
Right
忘れずはなれし袖もや氷覧ねぬ夜の床の霜の小莚
wasurezu wa
If she has forgot-me-not,
122
On autumn: a feeling he had on his travels.
此秋は何で年よる雲に鳥
kono aki wa
In the autumn of this year
(26th day, Ninth Month, 1694)
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