Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 73

Left

浦ちかくふり来る雪は白波の末の松山こすかとぞ見る

ura chikaku
furikuru yuki wa
shiranami no
sue no matsuyama
kosu ka to zo miru
Close by the shore
The snow floats in;
“Would the whitecaps,
Over Sue-no-Matsuyama
Break?” come to mind.[1]

Okikaze
143[2]

Right Some texts of the contest have no surviving poem for the Right this round, while some others repeat poem No. 122.


[1] A reference to: 君をおきてあだし心を我がもたば末の松山波もこえなん kimi o okite / adashi kokoro o / wa ga motaba / sue no matsuyama / nami mo koenan ‘To abandon you / An inconstant heart / Would I have, but sooner / Over Sue-no-Matsuyama / Would waves break!’ Anonymous (Kokinshū XX: 1093).

[2] Kokinshū VI: 326/Shūishū IV: 239, attributed to Hitomaro/Kokin rokujō I: 717.

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