Round Three

Left

をとめ子が袖ふるやまの水がきのひさしきよよりおもひそめてき

otomego ga sode furu yama no mizugaki no hisashiki yo yori omoisometeki

Maidens, Sleeves waving at Furu Mountain’s Sacred walls, have there Ever been; as long Has love stained my heart.

5[i]

Right

おきつかぜふきにけらしな住吉の松のしづえをあらふしらなみ

okitsukaze fukinikerashi na sumiyoshi no matsu no shizue o arau shiranami

The wind in the offing Is gusting, it seems, for At Sumiyoshi The pines’ low branches Are washed by whitecaps.

6[ii]

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[i] SIS XIX: 1210: Topic unknown.

[ii] GSIS XVIII: 1063/64:  Composed on the instructions of His Majesty, on the way back from Sumiyoshi, when he had accompanied him there in the Third Month, Enkyū 5 [April 1073].