Round Fifty-Six

Left

すみよしの松を秋かぜ吹くからにこゑうちそふる興つしらなみ

sumiyoshi no matsu o akikaze fuku kara ni koe uchisouru oki tsu shiranami

When through Sumiyoshi’s Pines the autumn wind Does blow, Draped are they by the roar of Whitecaps in the offing.

111[i]

Right

なきよわるまがきの虫もとめがたき秋の別やかなしかるらん

naki yowaru magaki no mushi mo tomegataki aki no wakare ya kanashikaruramu

Faintly crying, The insects in the cage, too, Do they find it difficult to halt The parting Autumn And feel this sadness?

112[ii]

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[i] A minor variation on a poem from Shūishū (XVII: 1112) with a variant initial line, using the place name Sumiyoshi, rather than Suminoe: For a folding screen at the residence of Major Captain of the Right Sadakuni.

[ii] SZS VII: 478: A person who was going far away came to see her and left with the dawn; it was the last day of the Ninth Month and the insects were crying movingly, so she composed: