Lakes 水海
さざなみや小松にたちてみわたせばみほのみさきにたづむれて行く
| sazanami ya komatsu ni tachite miwataseba mio no misaki ni tazu mureteyuku | Rocked by wavelets Breaking on the dwarf-pines I gaze across Fair Mio point upon The flocking cranes. |
Nakazane
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Love X: 16
Left (Win)
さざ浪や志賀津の海士になりにけりみるめはなくて袖のしほるる
| sazanami ya shigatsu no ama ni narinikeri mirume wa nakute sode no shioruru | Rocked by wavelets A fisherman at Shiga Bay Have I become! Glimpsing no seaweed, How my sleeves are soaked… |
Lord Suetsune
1171
Right
伊勢の海の底までかづく海人なれやみるめに人を思ふ心は
| ise no umi no soko made kazuku ama nare ya mirume ni hito o omou kokoro wa | At Ise, to the sea Bed dive Fisher-girls: Am I one, too? A seaweed-tangled glimpse of you Lodging in my heart… |
Jakuren
1172
The Right state: the Left’s poem has no faults to mention. The Left state: neither beginning nor end is sufficiently forcefully expressed.
In judgement: the conception and configuration of the Left’s ‘fisherman at Shiga Bay’ (shigatsu no ama) certainly seem splendid. That is really all there is to say about this poem. To make a deliberate point of seeking out elements which sound difficult is a pointless activity for the Way of Poetry and an individual poet. As for the Right’s poem, diving ‘to the sea bed’ (soko made) is just something that fisher-girls do. The Left must win.
SZS I: 66
Composed on the conception of blossom at a former estate.
ささ浪や志賀の都は荒れにしを昔ながらの山桜かな
| sasanami ya siga no miyako Fa arenisi wo mukasi nagara no yamazakura kana |
Wavelets wash The capital at Shiga – All ruined now, but Just as long ago are The mountain cherry blooms. |
Anonymous
Spring III: 24
Left (Tie).
もろ聲にいたくな鳴きそさもこそはうき沼の池のかはづ成とも
| morogoe ni itaku na naki so samo koso wa ukinu no ike no kawazu naritomo |
O, that in such a chorus They would not sing! However much A swamp the pond of Frogs may be! |
167
Right (Tie).
夜とゝもに浪の下にて鳴くかはづ何ゆへ深き恨みなるらん
| yo to tomo ni nami no shita nite naku kawazu nani yue fukaki urami naruran |
With nightfall from Beneath the wavelets Call the frogs; For what are such depths Of despair… |
168
Once again, neither team has anything special to say this round.
Shunzei’s judgement is, ‘Both poems are similar in expression, mentioning “frogs” (kawazu), “swamp” (ukinu) and “depths of despair” (fukaki urami). The round should tie.’
Spring III: 23
Left (Win).
雨そゝく池の浮草風こえて浪と露とにかはづ鳴くなり
| ame sosoku ike no ukikusa kaze koete nami to tsuyu to ni kawazu nakunari |
Rain drifts down Upon the duckweed in the pond, Driven by the wind Among wavelets and dewfall The frogs are calling. |
165
Right.
庭の面はひとつに見ゆる浮草をこゝぞ汀とかはづ鳴なり
| niwa no omo wa hitotsu ni miyuru ukikusa o koko zo migiwa to kawazu nakunari |
The garden’s face Seems as one With the duckweed; ‘Here lies the water’s edge,’ The frogs are calling… |
166
Neither Right nor Left has any particular remarks to make about the other’s poem this round.
Shunzei says, ‘Both poems are splendid in form, but the Left’s ‘among the wavelets and dewfall’ (nami to tsuyu to ni) is particularly pleasing. It must win.
SKS II: 78
Topic unknown.
川上にゆふだちすらし水屑せく梁瀨のさ波たちさはぐなり
| kaFakami ni yuFudatisurasi mikudu seku yanase no sanami tatisaFagu nari |
Upriver has Evening come, I’m sure; Bearing flotsam To the fish-trapped shallows, the wavelets Are awash with sound. |
Sone no Yoshitada
曾禰好忠
SKS I: 1
During the reign of Retired Emperor Horikawa, when he offered a hundred poem sequence, he composed this in the conception of the beginning of Spring.
こほりゐし志賀の唐崎うちとけてさゞ波よする春風ぞふく
| koFori wisi siga no karasaki utitokete sazanami yosuru Faru kaze zo Fuku |
Once ice-locked, Around Kara Cape in Shiga There is a melting and The wavelets lap With the blowing breeze of Spring. |
Minister of the Treasury [Ōe no] Masafusa