Left.
夕暮に思へばけさの朝霞夜をへだてたる心地こそすれ
| yūgure ni omoeba kesa no asa kasumi yo o hedatetaru kokochi koso sure |
In the evening Pondering on the morn’s Morning mist: That a night does stand between, The feeling strikes me strongly. |
125
Right (Win).
かくしつゝつもればおしき春の日をのどけき物と何思らむ
| kakushitsutsu tsumoreba oshiki haru no hi o nodokeki mono to nani omouramu |
Doing this and that Time passes, so I should regret These days of spring, Spent in peaceful Thought – and for what! |
126
Neither team has any comments to make about the other’s poem this round.
Shunzei states, ‘The Left seem to touch on the topic of the round only distantly, while the Right’s ‘Time passes, so I should regret’ (tsumoreba oshiki) appears particularly splendid. It must be the winner.