Autumn
Round Seven
Left
秋山はからくれなゐに成りにけりいくしほしぐれふりてそめけん
akiyama wa karakurenai ni narinikeri iku shio shigure furite someken The autumn mountains
13[1]
Right (Win)
秋きぬとめにはさやかにみえねども風の音にぞおどろかれぬる
aki kinu to me ni wa sayaka ni mienedomo kaze no oto ni zo odorokarenuru That autumn has come
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki 14[2]
[1] Shokugosenshū VII: 429
[2] This poem was particularly highly evaluated and so is included in numerous other anthologies (Kokin rokujō I: 125), exemplary collections (Shinsen waka 2) and senka awase – contests assembled from prior poems (Shunzei sanjū roku nin uta’awase 61; Jidai fudō uta’awase 49).
Composed on plovers.
沖つ潮指出の磯の浜千鳥風寒からし夜半に友呼ぶ
oki tsu shio From the offing the tides
Supernumerary Middle Counsellor [Fujiwara no] Nagakata (1139-1191)
Topic unknown.
さざなみや志賀のからさき風さえてひらのたかねに霰ふるなり
sazanami ya shiga no karasaki kaze saete hira no takane ni arare furunari Wavelets wash
The Hosshōji Lay Priest, former Chancellor and Palace Minister [Fujiwara no Tadamichi]
Topic unknown.
をぎのはにつゆふきむすぶこがらしのおとぞよさむになりまさるなる
wogi no Fa ni Silver grass fronds
Fujiwara no Akitsuna
Composed on the conception of the autumn wind at a mountain retreat.
山ざとのしづの松がきひまをあらみいたくなふきそこがらしのかぜ
yamazato no Around this mountain dwelling
Ōmiya Echizen
In reply.
こがらしのもりのした草風はやみ人のなげきはおひそひにけり
kogarasi no The biting wind upon
Anonymous
On the cold wind.
木がらしのおとはすぎにし時なれどときはにつねに松にふく風
kogarashi no The biting wind’s
Anonymous
Composed when he presented a hundred poem sequence during the reign of former Emperor Horikawa.
こがらしの雲ふきはらふたかねよりさえても月のすみのぼるかな
kogarasi no The biting wind
Minamoto no Toshiyori (Shunrai)
山ざとは秋こそものはかなしけれねざめねざめにしかはなきつつ
yamazato wa aki koso mono wa kanashikere nezame nezame ni shika wa nakitsutsu A mountain retreat in
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ことのねをかぜのしらべにまかせてはたつたひめこそあきはひくらし
koto no ne o kaze no shirabe ni makasete wa tatsustahime koso aki wa hikurashi A zither’s strains
30
Wisteria blooming by a river bank
Left
sadamenaku fuku kaze nareba ikemizu no kishi o megurite yosuru Fujinami Inconstant is
Fujiwara no Munenari
Right
藤なみのかからぬ岸のなければやこぎくる舟のよるひまのなき
fujinami no kakaranu kishi no nakereba ya kogikuru fune no yoru hima no naki Untouched by wisteria waves
Lesser Superintendant Fujiwara no Sadamitsu
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