Heat Haze
うち乱れすめるみ空の遊ぶ糸に天の川瀬のみつを日かはや
| uchimidare sumeru misora no asobu ito ama no kawase no mitsu o hi ka wa ya |
Confusing The clear skies is The heat-haze: The rapids of the river of heaven Roused by the sun, perhaps? |
Akinaka
Monthly Archives: July 2016
Horikawa hyakushu 1529
Love V: 1
Left.
昔我振分髪を見てしより戀に亂て老いぞしにける
| mukashi ware furiwakegami o miteshi yori koi ni midarete oi zo shinikeru |
Long ago, I, Your hair, bunched on either side, Did glimpse, and ever since In a confusion of love Have I grown old. |
Lord Suetsune.
841
Right (Win).
色に染む心は同じ昔にて人のつらきに老を知るかな
| iro ni somuru kokoro wa onaji mukashi nite hito no turaki ni oi o shiru kana |
Being charmed by beauty My heart is just the same As long ago, but How cruel for me now, Feeling my age… |
Lord Takanobu.
842
The Right state: ‘Your hair, bunched on either side’ (furiwakegami) appears very abruptly. In addition, we wonder about the appropriateness of evoking youthful love. The Left state: the Right’s poem has no faults to indicate.
In judgement: the confusion evoked by ‘your hair, bunched on either side’ seems to have lasted rather too long. The Right’s poem sounds exactly as it should be. Thus, the Right should win.
Love IV: 30
Left (Win).
見し人のねくたれ髪の面影に涙かきやる小夜の手枕
| mishi hito no nekutare kami no omokage ni namida kakiyaru sayo no tamakura |
One I once loved: Her sleep-tangled hair Comes to mind, and My tears drop upon My pillowed arm this night. |
A Servant Girl.
839
Right.
見せばやな夜床に積もる塵をのみあらましごとに拂ふ氣色を
| miseba ya na yodoko ni tsumoru chiri o nomi aramashi goto ni harau keshiki o |
Hoping to see him, From my bed the piled Dust at least, Wishing it would be, Sweeping away – that’s me! |
Nobusada.
838
Left and Right both state there are no faults to indicate.
In judgement: even though both the Left’s ‘pillowed arm this night’ (sayo no tamakura) and the Right’s ‘dusty bed’ (yodoko no chiri) are elegant, the combination of ‘my tears drop upon my pillowed arm this night’ (namida kakiyaru sayo no tamakura) is particularly moving. The Left should win.
Izumi shikibu-shū 238
SZS XIX: 1243
SZS XVI: 1030
When he went to Tennōji and, while at Nagara heard someone say that there used to be a bridge here.
行末を思へばかなし津の國のながらの橋も名が殘りけり
| yukusuwe wo omoFeba kanasi tu no kuni no nagara no Fasi mo na ga nokorikeri |
What has befallen – When I think on it, it is so sad that In the province of Tsu The bridge of Nagara Has left behind its name, alone… |
Minamoto no Shunrai
源俊頼
Okikaze-shū 49
KKS XV: 826
GSIS XIII: 751
Composed and sent to the same place.
陸奥の緒絶えの橋やこれならむふみゝふまずみ心まどはす
| mitinoku no wodae no Fasi ya kore naramu Fumi mi Fumazu mikokoro madoFasu |
In Michinoku Is the bridge of Odae Such as this? Trodden then untrodden, letters and then non It does twist my heart. |
Master of the Left Capital Office, Michimasa
左京大夫通雅