Left
いづこにか秋はいくらん跡をだにとめてゆきせばたづねみてまし
| izuko ni ka aki wa ikuran ato o dani tomete yukiseba tazune mitemashi | Where might it be that Autumn goes? Even a trace Left behind would make me want to go, and Make an enquiry, I feel. |
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Right (Win)
おほかたの秋はをしめどかひもなしなのながづきをとどめてしがな
| ōkata no aki wa oshimedo kai mo nashi na no nagatsuki o todomete shigana | In general, I regret autumn’s passing, yet How pointless that is: In name alone does the Longest Month Remain! |
18
Topic unknown.
跡もなきしづが家ゐの竹のかきいぬのこゑのみおくふかくして
| ato mo naki shizu ga iei no take no kaki inu no koe nomi oku fukakushite | Not a trace remains Of the peasants’ huts’ Bamboo fences, Simply a dog barking From deep within. |
His Former Majesty [Hanazono]
Left
霜のうへに跡ふみつくる浜千鳥行へもなしと鳴きのみぞふる
| shimo no ue ni ato fumitsukuru hamachidori yukue mo nashi to naki nomi zo suru | Upon the frost Treading out tracks are Plovers on the beach; With no place to go, They simply sing! |
Okikaze
141
Right
なみだ川みなぐばかりの淵はあれど氷とけねばかげもやどらぬ
| namidagawa mi nagu bakari no fuchi wa aredo kōri tokeneba kage mo yadoranu | My river of tears, Is fit to drown me in It’s depths, yet Should the ice not melt, No sign will linger on… |
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Left
梅がかを袖にうつしてとどめては春はすぐともかたみならまし
| mume ga ka o sode ni utushite todometeba haru wa sugutomo katami naramashi | If only the plums’ scent Would shift to my sleeves and Stay there, then Even when spring is past and gone A keepsake would it be… |
35[1]
Right
行く春の跡だにありと見ましかば野べのまにまにとめましものを
| yuku haru no ato dani ari to mimashikaba nobe no manimani tomemashi mono o | Departing spring’s Very tracks I would I saw, so Simply in the meadows Would I remain! |
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[1] Kokinshū I: 46/Shinsen man’yōshū 21
Round Twelve
Left
冬の夜の月はとほくやわたりけんかげみしみづのまづしこほれば
| fuyu no yo no tsuki wa tōku ya watariken kage mishi mizu no mazu shi kōreba | On a winter’s night Does the moon distantly Pass by? For The waters where I saw its face Are the first to freeze… |
22
Right
ながれくるみづこほりぬる冬さへやなほうき草のあとはさだめぬ
| nagarekuru mizu kōrinuru fuyu sae ya nao ukikusa no ato wa sadamenu | Flowing down The waters have frozen With the winter, so will The drifting waterweed still Leave little trace? |
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