Round Sixty-Eight

Left

あさぼらけあり明の月とみるまでによしのの里にふれるしらゆき

asaborake ariake no tsuki to miru made ni yoshino no sato ni fureru shirayuki

Dawning’s Pale moonlight It seems: The house at Yoshino, With snowfall all around.

135[i]

Right

もしほ草しきつのうらのねざめにはしぐれにのみや袖はぬるらん

moshiogusa shikitsu no ura no nezame ni wa shigure ni nomi ya sode wa nururan

Salt-seaweed grasses grow On the beach at Shikitsu where On waking is it By the showers alone That my sleeves have dampened?

136[ii]

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[i] KKS VI: 332: Composed on seeing snow fall when he had gone to the province of Yamato.

[ii] SZS VIII: 526/525: Composed on the conception of showers at a lodging on a journey, when people were composing for the Poetry Match at the Sumiyoshi Shrine.