Round Thirty-Two

Left

あふことはとほ山ずりのかりころもきてはかひなきねをのみぞなく

au koto wa tōyamazuri no karikoromo kite wa kainaki ne o nomi zo naku

Meeting her: Distant mountains pattern My hunting garb: Donning it is pointless, so My sobs do simply fall.

63[i]

Right

をぐら山しぐるるころのあさなあさな昨日はうすき四方のもみぢば

ogurayama shigururu koro no asana asana kinō wa usuki yomo no momijiba

On gloomy Ogura Mountain When the showers fall Each and every morning, How faded are yesterday’s Scarlet leaves, all around.

64[ii]

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[i] GSS X: 679/680: When he was sent a set of hunting robes from the residence of a woman he had been visiting secretly, he wrote this on the pattern of the hunting garb.

[ii] Shokugosenshū VII: 419/411: On autumn mornings, kōshin Fourth Month, Kenpo 5 [May 1217].