Left (Win)

われききてひとにはつげむほととぎすおもふもしるくまづここになけ

ware kikite hito ni wa tsugeku hototogisu omou shiruku mazu koko ni nake

I listen, and To folk will tell, O, cuckoo, so Where I am lost in thoughts of you, Sing here first!

Mitsune
47

Right

かたをかのあしたのはらをとよむまでやまほととぎすいまぞなくなる

kataoka no ashita no hara o toyomu made yamahototogisu ima zo nakunaru

Until in Kataoka The plain of Ashita Does resound The mountain cuckoos Are singing now!

48

When ‘Until in Kataoka / The plain of Ashita / Does resound’ had been recited, His Majesty laughed, saying, ‘It would be impossible for it to resound,’ so the final part of the poem was not recited and it lost.