Original
あきやまにこころをのみもいるるかなもみぢのいろのふかきまにまに
akiyama ni kokoro o nomi mo iruru kana momiji no iro no fukaki manimani By the autumn mountains
27
Left
あきやまにいらんこころはなごりなくひとにやみえむもみぢちりなば
akiyama ni iran kokoro wa nagori naku hito ni yamiemu momiji chirinaba By the autumn mountains
28
Right
もみぢするあきにこころのいるひとやあだなることをまづはしるらむ
momijisuru aki ni kokoro no iru hito ya adanaru koto o mazu wa shiruramu Scarlet the leaves turn
29
Original
あしひきのやまぢはあきぞまどひけるつもれるもみぢあとしなければ
ashihiki no yamaji wa aki zo madoikeru tsumoreru momiji ato shinakereba Leg-wearying
21
Left (Win)
もみぢばをたむけにつめるあきやまにみちみえずともたれかまどはむ
momijiba o tamuke ni tsumeru akiyama ni michi miezu tomo tareka madowamu Scarlet leaves are
22
Right
あしひきのやまのもみぢしあかからばみちふみわけてたづぬばかりぞ
ashihiki no yama no momiji shi akakaraba michi fumiwakete tazunu bakari zo The leg-wearying
23
Original
あきやまはからくれなゐになりにけりいくしほしぐれふりてそめけむ
akiyama wa karakurenai ni narinikeri iku shio shigure furite somekemu The autumn mountains
9
Left
しぐれつつくれなゐふかくやまのはもあきはてゆけばかひなかりけり
shiguretsutsu kurenai fukaku yama no ha mo aki hateyukeba kainakarikeri With every shower
10
Right
いくしほもしぐれはふらじさほひめのふかくそめたるいろとこそみれ
iku shio mo shigure wa furaji saohime no fukaku sometaru iro to koso mire No matter how many dippings
11
On the same conception [blossom, when he presented a hundred poem sequence].
身にかへておもふもくるしさくら花さかぬみ山にやどもとめてむ
mi ni kaete It will cost my life,
Monk Nyogan
Created with Soan .
The End of Autumn
Left
あきやまはからくれなゐになりにけりいくしほしぐれふりてそめけむ
akiyama wa karakurenai ni narinikeri iku shioshigure furitesomekemu The autumn mountains
15
Right (Win)
さほやまのははそのもみぢうすけれどあきはふかくもなりにけるかな
saoyama no hahaso no momiji usukeredo aki wa fukaku mo narinikeru kana On Sao Mountain
Korenori
Left
あき山に恋する鹿の声たてて鳴きぞしぬべき君がこぬよは
akiyama ni koisuru shika no koe tatete naki zo shinubeki kimi ga konu yo wa In the autumn mountains
116[1]
Right
契りけむ心ぞつらき七夕の年にひとたびあふは逢ふかは
chigiriken The vow
Fujiwara no Okikaze
117[2]
[1] Shokukokinshū XII: 1194/Shinsen man’yōshū 119
[2] Kokinshū IV: 178/Shinsen man’yōshū 460/Kokin rokujō I: 143
A poem from the Poetry Contest held by the Dowager Empress during the Reign of the Kanpyō Emperor.
あき山に恋する鹿の声たてて鳴きぞしぬべき君がこぬよは
akiyama ni koisuru shika no koe tatete naki zo shinubeki kimi ga konu yo wa In the autumn mountains
Anonymous
Autumn
Round Seven
Left
秋山はからくれなゐに成りにけりいくしほしぐれふりてそめけん
akiyama wa karakurenai ni narinikeri iku shio shigure furite someken The autumn mountains
13[1]
Right (Win)
秋きぬとめにはさやかにみえねども風の音にぞおどろかれぬる
aki kinu to me ni wa sayaka ni mienedomo kaze no oto ni zo odorokarenuru That autumn has come
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki 14[2]
[1] Shokugosenshū VII: 429
[2] This poem was particularly highly evaluated and so is included in numerous other anthologies (Kokin rokujō I: 125), exemplary collections (Shinsen waka 2) and senka awase – contests assembled from prior poems (Shunzei sanjū roku nin uta’awase 61; Jidai fudō uta’awase 49).
'Simply moving and elegant'
