Composed by command on the topic of a distant view across the sea when His Majesty [Emperor Sutoku] was newly retired as emperor.
わたのはらこぎいでてみれば久方の雲井にまがふおきつしらなみ
| wata no Fara kogi’idedete mireba Fisakata no kumowi ni magaFu oki tu siranami | When across the wide seascape On rowing out I turn my gaze The eternal Clouds are tangled with The whitecaps in the offing.[i] |
The Former Chancellor and Palace Minister
[i] An allusive variation on Omuro gojisshu 601.
Composed on the instructions of His Majesty, on the way back from Sumiyoshi, when he had accompanied him there in the Third Month, Enkyū 5 [April 1073].
おきつかぜふきにけらしな住吉の松のしづえをあらふしらなみ
| okitsukaze fukinikerashi na sumiyoshi no matsu no shizue o arau shiranami | The wind in the offing Is gusting, it seems, for At Sumiyoshi The pines’ low branches Are washed by whitecaps. |
Minister of Justice Tsunenobu
Love without meeting
Left (Win)
あふことのかたきしなればしらなみのたちよるかずはわれのみぞしる
| au koto no katakishi nareba shiranami no tachiyoru kazu wa ware nomi zo shiru | Meeting you is A distant cliff, so The whitecaps’ Numbers breaking there I alone do know. |
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Right
あはむとはおもひわたれどふじかはのすまずはつひにかげもみえじを
| awamu to wa omoi wataredo fujikawa no sumazu wa tsui ni kage mo mieji o | To meet her Passionately did I cross, yet The Fuji River Was so clouded that at the last Her shape I could not see at all… |
Mitsune
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Left
浦ちかくふり来る雪は白波の末の松山こすかとぞ見る
| ura chikaku furikuru yuki wa shiranami no sue no matsuyama kosu ka to zo miru | Close by the shore The snow floats in; “Would the whitecaps, Over Sue-no-Matsuyama Break?” come to mind.[1] |
Okikaze
143[2]
Right Some texts of the contest have no surviving poem for the Right this round, while some others repeat poem No. 122.
[1] A reference to: 君をおきてあだし心を我がもたば末の松山波もこえなん kimi o okite / adashi kokoro o / wa ga motaba / sue no matsuyama / nami mo koenan ‘To abandon you / An inconstant heart / Would I have, but sooner / Over Sue-no-Matsuyama / Would waves break!’ Anonymous (Kokinshū XX: 1093).
[2] Kokinshū VI: 326/Shūishū IV: 239, attributed to Hitomaro/Kokin rokujō I: 717.
Left
ちらねどもかねてぞをしき紅葉ばは今はかぎりの色とみつれば
| chiranedomo kanete zo oshiki momijiba wa ima wa kagiri no iro to mitsureba | Not fallen yet Even now is there something to regret In the scarlet autumn leaves, For already the utmost of Their hues do I see, so… |
96[1]
Right
白波に秋の木のはのうかべるはあまのながせる舟かとぞ見る
| shiranami ni aki no ko no ha no ukaberu o ama no nagaseru fune ka to zo miru | Atop the whitecaps Autumn leaves Float as Divers’ drifting Boats seeming. |
97[2]
[1] Kokinshū V: 264/Shinsen man’yōshū 105.
[2] Kokinshū V: 301, attributed to Fujiwara no Okikaze/Kokin rokujō III: 1825, attributed to Kiyowara no Fukayabu.
Round Fifteen
Left
逢ふ事のかたきしなれば白波の立ちよる数はわれのみぞしる
| au koto no katakishi nareba shiranami no tachiyoru kazu wa ware nomi zo shiru | Meeting you is A distant cliff, so The whitecaps’ Numbers breaking there I alone do know. |
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Right
佗びぬればしひてわすれんとおもへども心よわくも落つるなみだか
| wabinureba shiite wasuren to omoedomo kokoro yowaku mo otsuru namida ka | I suffer, so I’ll make myself forget, I think, yet Is it my fragile heart that Drips with tears? |
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Round Thirteen
Left
うらちかくふりくる雪はしら波のすゑの松山こすかとぞみる
| ura chikaku furikuru yuki wa shiranami no sue no matsuyama kosu ka to zo miru | Close by the beach The snow comes falling upon The whitecaps—that The pine-topped peak of Sue The might o’ercome it does appear! |
Fujiwara no Okikaze
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Right
みよしのの山の白雪つもるらしふる里さむく成りまさるなり
| miyoshino no yama no shirayuki tsumorurashi furusato samuku narimasaru nari | On fair Yoshino Mountain white snow fall Drifts high, it seems, For in this ancient place the chill Grows ever stronger. |
Sakanoue no Korenori
25[1]
[1] Kokinshū VI: 325: Composed at the place he was staying when he had gone to the Nara capital.
Round Eight
Left
秋風の吹来る声はやまながらなみ立ちかへるおとぞきこゆる
| akikaze no fukikuru koe wa yama nagara nami tachikaeru oto zo kikoyuru | The autumn breeze’s Cry comes gusting; And in the mountains, The sound of waves washing back and forth Comes to my ears. |
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Right
すみの江の松を秋風吹くからにこゑうちそふる沖つ白なみ
| suminoe no matsu o akikaze fuku kara ni koe uchisouru oki tsu shiranami | At Suminoe The pines by the autumn breeze Are blown, so The sound lies atop The whitecaps in the offing. |
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よもぎふに露のおきしくあきのよはひとりぬるみもそでぞぬれける
| yomogyū ni tsuyu no okishiku aki no yo wa hitori nuru mi mo sode zo nurekeru | Upon the mugwort The dew falls, scattered On an autumn night; Sleeping alone, my Sleeves are drenched, indeed! |
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あしひきの山べによするしらなみはくれなゐふかくあきぞ見えける
| ashihiki no yamabe ni yosuru shiranami wa kurenai fukaku aki zo miekeru | Upon the leg-wearying Mountain meadows break The whitecaps; A deeper scarlet Does autumn reveal. |
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