Left (Win).
更けにけり頼めぬ鐘は音信て七編さびしき十編の菅薦
| fukenikeri tanomenu kane wa otozurete nanafu sabishiki tofu no sugagomo |
Night has fallen, Untrustworthy, the bell Tolls – an absent vistor’s Seven layers lie empty Of ten layers of woven sedge blanket. |
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Right.
今日とても憂きに頼みは變れども待とて安き物思ひかは
| kyō tote mo uki ni tanomi wa kawaredomo matsu tote yasuki mono’omoi ka wa |
I thought that today My despair To trust would change, yet While waiting, calmness Is farthest from my thoughts… |
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Left and Right both state: we find no faults.
Shunzei’s judgement: the Left, commencing with ‘night has fallen’ (fukenikeri) and continuing with ‘seven layers lie empty’ (nanafu sabishiki) is elegant [yū]. It should win.