Round One Hundred and Fourteen

Left

つくば山葉やましげ山しげけれどおもひいるにはさはらざりけり

tsukubayama hayama shigeyama shigekeredo omoi’iru ni wa sawarazarikeri

Tsukuba Mountain has Peaks both high and low So many watch, yet Once embarked on love ‘Tis no trouble, at all.

227[1]

Right

さびしさにうきよをかへてしのばずはひとり聞くべき松のかぜかは

sabishisa ni ukiyo o kaete shinobazu wa hitori kikubeki matsu no kaze ka wa

If the loneliness of This cruel world is a burden Unendurable, then All alone I can listen to The wind passing through the pines.

228[2]

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[1] Shinkokinshū XI: 1013: Topic unknown.

[2] Senzaishū XVII: 1138: Topic unknown.