Left

さくらばなちりぬるかぜのなごりにはみづなきそらになみぞたちける

sakurabana chirinuru kaze no nagori ni wa mizu naki sora ni nami zo tachikeru

The cherry blossom Scattering wind as A keepsake in The waterless skies Has roused the waves.

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Right

みなそこにはるやくるらんみよしののよしののかはにかはづなくなり

minasoko ni haru ya kururan miyoshino no yoshino no kawa ni kawazu nakunari

To the water’s depths Has the spring arrived, it seems, for In fair Yoshino From the Yoshino River The frogs are singing.

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The Right won. His Majesty remarked, ‘There is a Royal poem here, so how could it lose?’