Round Twenty

いろみえでうつろふ物は世中の人のこころの花にぞありける

iro miede ururou mono wa yo no naka no hito no kokoro no hana ni zo arikeru

Visible colours (Invisible passions) Fade from This world’s Human hearts And flowers.

39[i]

Right

松のとをおしあけ方の山かぜに雲もかからぬ月を見るかな

matsu no to o oshiakegata no yamakaze ni kumo mo kakaranu tsuki o miru kana

Upon my pinewood door Pushes at the break of dawn A breeze from off the mountains, so Unencumbered by the clouds Do I see the moon!

40[ii]

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[i] KKS XV: 797: Topic unknown.

[ii] Shinchokusenshū IV: 267: On the moon at a mountain retreat, for a Fifty Poem Sequence at the residence of the Lay Priest Prince of the Second Order.