Pine seedlings on the Day of the Rat (子日小松)
Left
ねの日する松の葉ごとにかぞふれば猶ぞつきせぬきみが千とせは
ne no hi suru matsu no ha goto ni kazoureba nao zo tsukisenu kimi ga chitose wa On this Day of the Rat
A Court Lady
Right
はるかなる君がよはひにくらべむと子日の松をけふは引くかな
harukanaru kimi ga yowai ni kurabemu to ne no hi no matsu o kyō wa hiku kana Distant is
A Court Lady
Felicitations 賀
つきもせぬ君がよはひはいくちよとかぎれる竹の枝にやあるらん
tsuki mo senu Inexhaustible is
Daishin
Felicitations 賀
我が君のよはひたけたるうれしさは大宮人の身にあまるらん
wa ga kimi no My Lord’s
Kanemasa
菊の水齢を延べずあらませばさとも荒さで今日あはましや
kiku no midu
The chrysanthemums’ waters
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Left.
mukashi ware
Long ago, I,
Lord Suetsune .
Right (Win).
iro ni somuru
Being charmed by beauty
Lord Takanobu .
The Right state: ‘Your hair, bunched on either side’ (furiwakegami ) appears very abruptly. In addition, we wonder about the appropriateness of evoking youthful love. The Left state: the Right’s poem has no faults to indicate.
In judgement: the confusion evoked by ‘your hair, bunched on either side’ seems to have lasted rather too long. The Right’s poem sounds exactly as it should be. Thus, the Right should win.
'Simply moving and elegant'