五月雨の－黄昏時は－月影の－朧けにやは－我が人を待つ
| samidare no tasogaredoki Fa tukikage no oboroke ni ya Fa wa ga Fito o matu |
Drizzle at The hour of dusk Makes the moonlight Mistily uncertain As I await my man… |
Ōshikōchi no Mitsune
凡河内躬恒
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SZS IV: 291
Composed on the conception of the moon by the sea.
眺めやる心の果てぞなかりける明石の沖に澄める月影
| nagameyaru kokoro no Fate zo nakarikeru akasi no oki ni sumeru tsukikage |
Gazing out I find my heart’s last hope Is not gone; Above the offing at Akashi bright and Clear is the moonlight. |
Shun’e
俊恵
SIS VI: 319
Sent to the house of someone who had gone to Shinano.
月影は飽かず見るとも更級の山の麓に長居すな君
| tukikage Fa akazu miru tomo sarasina no yama no Fumoto ni nagawisu na kimi |
The moonlight can Never sate your gaze, but In Sarashina At the mountain’s foot Stay not too long, my lord! |
Ki no Tsurayuki
紀貫之
Ise shū 245
白雲の棚引きかかる深山には漏る月影もよそにこそ見れ
| sirakumo no tanabikikakaru miyama ni Fa moru tukikage mo yoso ni koso mire |
Clouds of white Trail across The mountains’ heart, where The drips of moonlight, too, Seem so far away… |
Tametada-ke godo hyakushu 369
小笹原末葉に結ぶ白露の光の間にも澄める月影
| ozasawara sueba ni musubu shiratsuyu no hikari no ma ni mo sumeru tsukikage |
In the groves of young broad-leaved bamboo The leaf-tips are bound With silver dewdrops: In those bright fragments Clearly shines the moonlight. |
Fujiwara no Chikataka
藤原親隆
SKKS IV: 422
On the moon passing over the plain, when he presented a fifty poem sequence.
行く末は空もひとつの武蔵野に草の原より出づる月影
| yukusue wa sora mo hitotsu no musashino ni kusa no hara yori izuru tsukikage |
Its destination: The skies, one with Musashi Plain, where From among the fields of grass Emerges moonlight. |
The Regent and Prime Minister (Fujiwara no Yoshitsune)
Love V: 30
Left (Tie).
故郷を出でしにまさる涙かな嵐の枕夢に別れて
| furusato ni ideshi ni masaru namida kana arashi no makura yume ni wakarete |
My home I left in floods Of tears; The wild wind round my pillow Breaks us apart in dreams… |
Lord Sada’ie
899
Right.
東路の夜半の眺めを語らなん都の山にかゝる月影
| azumaji no yowa no nagame o kataranan miyako no yama ni kakaru tsukikage |
Upon the eastern roads All night I turn my gaze – Tell him that, O moonlight, sinking Toward the mountains round the capital! |
Nobusada
900
Both Left and Right say they find no faults.
In judgement: the Left starts with ‘My home I left in floods’ (furusato ni ideshi ni masaru) and concludes with ‘the wild wind round my pillow breaks us apart in dreams’ (arashi no makura yume ni wakarete) – this is a form of words the quality of which I am entirely unable to convey with my own clumsy expressions, but the Right’s ‘O moonlight, sinking toward the mountains round the capital’ (miyako no yama ni kakaru tsukikage) is awash with a sense of tears, so it is most unclear which should win or lose. Both truly seem to reflect the conception of this topic ‘Love and Travel’ well. The poems have been so good every round that my brush is drenched with this old man’s tears, and I can find no other way to express it.
Akishino gesseishū I: 61
潮風に与謝の浦松音ふけて月影よする沖つ白波
| shiokaze ni yosa no ura matsu oto fukete tsukikage yosuru oki tsu shiranami |
The tidewinds On the pines at Yosa shore Die down With the roll of moonlight Over the whitecaps in the offing. |
Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
藤原良経
Autumn III: 29
Left.
有明の名ばかり秋の月影に弱り果てたる蟲の聲かな
| ariake no na bakari aki no tsukikage ni yowarihatetaru mushi no koe kana |
Dawn it is in Name alone; in autumn The moonlight is At its faintest As are the insects’ songs… |
477
Right (Win).
暮れて行秋の名残も山の端に月と共にや有明の空
| kureteyuku aki no nagori mo yama no ha ni tsuki to tomo ni ya ariake no sora |
Turning to dusk, Is there a memento of autumn, too, Upon the mountains’ edge Together with the moon in The dawning skies? |
478
The Right question the Left’s use of ‘Dawn it is in name alone’ (ariake no na bakari). The Left find no fault with the Right’s poem.
Shunzei’s judgement: I do not feel there is anything particularly wrong with ‘name alone; in autumn’ (na bakari aki no), but the Right’s ‘Together with the moon in the dawning skies’ (tsuki to tomo ni ya ariake no sora) seems most fine [yoroshikuhaberubeshi]. Thus, the Right wins.
Autumn II: 30
Left (Win).
心には見ぬ昔こそ浮びけれ月に眺むる廣澤の池
| kokoro ni wa minu mukashi koso ukabikere tsuki ni nagamuru hirosawa no ike |
Within my heart Unseen times of old Arise, Gazing at the moon Over Hirosawa Pond… |
419
Right.
行方なくながむる空も廣澤の池の心に澄める月影
| yukuenaku nagamuru sora mo hirosawa no ike no kokoro ni sumeru tsukikage |
Endlessly Drawing my gaze: the skies, and Hirosawa Pond – right at the heart – Bright moonlight. |
420
The Right state that the Left’s poem is ‘extraordinarily accomplished’ [sugoburu yoroshi]. The Left have no criticisms to make of the Right’s poem.
Shunzei’s judgement: The Left’s final section, ‘Gazing at the moon’ (tsuki ni nagamuru) is superb [yoroshiku haberi]. Thus, it must win.