Palace Poetry Match

Held in the Hall of Cool Purity, 30^th day of the Third Month, Tentoku 4

Topics

Haze	Warblers	Willows	Cherry
Kerria	Wisteria	Spring’s End	Summer’s Beginning
Deutzia	Cuckoos	Summer Grasses	Love

Poets

Left
His Excellency, Asatada[i]	Sakanoue no Mochiki[ii]
Tachibana no Yoshifuru[iii]	Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu[iv]
Shōni no Myōbu[v]	Mibu no Tadami[vi]
Minamoto no Shitagō[vii]
Right
Taira no Kanemori[viii]	Fujiwara no Motozane[ix]
Nakatsukasa[x]	Fujiwara no Hirofuru/Hiroko[xi]

Reciters

Left – Lord Nobumitsu[xii]

Right – Lord Hiromasa[xiii]

Judge

The Minister of the Left

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[i] 朝忠卿

[ii] 坂上望城

[iii] 橘好古

[iv] 大中臣能宣

[v] 少弐命婦

[vi] 壬生忠見

[vii] 源順

[viii] 平兼盛

[ix] 藤原元真

[x] 中務

[xi] 藤原博古

[xii] 延光朝臣

[xiii] 博雅朝臣