New Year’s Day
うちなびき今日立ちかへるとしなみのよらぬみぎははあらじとぞ思ふ
| uchinabiki kyō tachikaeru toshinami no yoranu migiwa wa araji to zo omou | Drifting along, Today breaks The year’s wave – An untouched shore Shall there be none, I feel! |
Tadafusa
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Love X: 30
Left
年深き入江の秋の月見ても別惜しまぬ人やかなしき
| toshi fukaki irie no aki no tsuki mitemo wakare oshimanu hito ya kanashiki | Late on in the year Above the bay one evening, Glimpsing the moon: That he cares not at their parting – Is that a source of sadness? |
A Servant Girl
1199
Right (Win)
ともすれば別を知らぬ浪の上にかきなす音をも人は問けり
| tomo sureba wakare o shiranu nami no ue ni kakinasu ne o mo hito wa toikeri | As ever, In ignorance of our parting, Upon the waves The strains I pluck Bring folk to ask me why… |
Ietaka
1200
Both Gentlemen state: the poems are based on ‘The Song of the Lute’ and have no faults to mention.
In judgement: both the Left and the Right are based on ‘The Song of the Lute’ and the Left, beginning with ‘late on in the year’ (toshi fukaki) is pleasant, but ‘that he cares not at their parting’ (wakare oshimanu) and what follows seems rather insufficient, in addition to simply seeming to recall Xunyang River and lack a conception of the poet’s own love. The Right has ‘in ignorance of our parting’ (wakare o shiranu), while ‘bring folk to ask me why’ (hito wa toikeri) also has a slight conception that the lady has not asked why either. Thus, the Right should win.
Ietaka-kyō hyakuban jika’awase 1
Left. Spring
あら玉の年もかはらぬふるさとの雪のうちにも春はきにけり
| aratama no toshi mo kawaranu furusato no yuki no uchi ni mo haru wa kinikeri |
To the fresh jeweled Year the change has yet to come, yet Around my familiar home Even within the snows The spring is here! |
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Ninnaji gojūshu, Kenkyū 1 [1190]
Right
冬ながら花ちる空のかすめるは雲のこなたに春やきつらむ
| fuyu nagara hana chiru sora no kasumeru wa kumo no konata ni haru ya kitsuramu |
It’s winter now, yet Are the blossom-scattering skies Hazed Beneath the clouds by The arrival of spring, perhaps? |
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Eikyū hyakushu 413
The Names of the Buddhas
甲斐無くて月日はふれど年暮れて仏の御名を聞くぞうれしき
| kainakute tsukihi wa furedo toshi kurete hotoke no mina o kiku zo ureshiki |
Pointlessly The days and months go by, yet At year’s twilight The Buddhas’ names I hear with joy! |
Eikyū hyakushu 408
The Names of the Buddhas
年のうちに積もれる罪も消えぬらむ三世の仏の御名を唱へて
| toshi no uchi ni tsumoreru tsumi mo kienuramu miyo no hotoke no mina o tonaete |
Within the year Our accumulated sins, too, Seem to disappear At the three worlds’ Buddhas’ Names recitation! |
Minamoto no Nakazane
源仲実
Miwako naishin’ō no ie no uta’awase 10
Left.
年のうちにつもれる罪を残さじと三世の仏の名をぞ唱ふる
| toshi no uchi ni tsumoreru tsumi o nokosaji to miyo no hotoke no na o zo tonauru |
Within this year I have accumulated sins, that I would not have linger at The three worlds’ Buddhas’ Names recitation! |
Seji 宣旨
19
Right.
君が代を三世の仏に年を経て返す返すも祈るべき哉
| kimi ga yo o miyo no hotoke ni toshi o hete kaesugaesu mo inorubeki kana |
That Your Highness reign The three worlds’ Buddhas’ Years shall pass through Again and yet again Shall be my only prayer! |
Hyōe 兵衛
20
Wakan rōeishū I: 395
新玉の年も暮れれば作りけむ罪も残らずなりやしぬらむ
| aratama no toshi mo kurureba tsukurikemu tsumi mo nokorazu nari ya shinuramu |
The bright jewel of The year fades into dusk, and Let the sins I have committed, All be gone – O, I would that it were so… |
Taira no Kanemori
平兼盛
Kokin rokujō I: 233
年のうちに積もれる罪はかきくらし降る白雪とともに消えなむ
| tosi no uti ni tumoreru tumi Fa kakikurasi Furu sirayuki to tomo ni kienamu |
Within the year My accumulated sins Leave me in darkness; With the falling snow so white I wish they would disappear! |
Ki no Tsurayuki
紀貫之
GSIS VI: 424
Sent around the end of the Twelfth Month from the province of Bizen to the residence of the Controller of Dewa.
都へは年と共にぞ歸るべきやがて春をもむかへがてらに
| miyako Fe Fa tosi to tomo ni zo kaFerubeki yagate Faru wo mo mukaFe gatera ni |
To the capital Along with the year I must return; At last, with the spring Shall I proceed together! |
Minamoto no Tameyoshi
源為善
Bunji roku nen nyōgo jūdai waka 82
幾返り今日のみあれに葵草頼みをかけて年の経ぬらむ
| iku kaFeri keFu nomi are ni aFuFigusa tanomi wo kakete tosi no Fenuramu |
How many times has it been? For this festive day Hollyhocks, For prayers hung, and The passage of another year marked… |
Fujiwara no Sanekata