Jidai fudō uta’awase 9

Round Nine

Left

かささぎのわたせるはしにおく霜のしろきをみれば夜ぞふけにける

kasasagi no
wataseru hashi ni
oku shimo no
shiroki o mireba
yo zo fukenikeru
On a magpie
Crossed bridge
Frost lies;
Seeing the whiteness
Night, indeed, is over.

17[i]

Right

やまぢにてそほちにけりな白露のあかつきおきの木木のしづくに

yamaji nite
sōchinikeri na
shiratsuyu no
akatsuki oki no
kigi no shizuku ni
On a mountain path
How damp have I become!
Silver dewdrops
Fall with the dawn
In droplets from the trees…

18[ii]


[i] SKKS VI: 620: Topic unknown.

[ii] SKKS X: 924: For the Hundred Poem Sequences Commemorating the Reign of Former Emperor Horikawa.

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