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Uda-in uta’awase 7

Kerria

Left

はなをらでわれぞややまふきのはなるつゆをたまにてけたじとおもへば

hana orade
ware zo ya yamau
ki no ha naru
tsuyu o tama nite
ketaji to omoeba
Leave the blossom unplucked, and
As it is, I will, that
From the tree’s leaves
The dewdrop gems
Will not disappear, or so I wish…

Sadafun

13

Right (Win)

いづこともわかずはるさめふりやまふきのはなべてももえにけるかな

izuko to mo
wakazu harusame
furiyamau
ki no ha nabete mo
moenikeru kana
Everywhere
Without exception, springtime showers
Have ceased to fall, so
All the leaves upon the trees
Have budded!

14

MYS III: 328

A poem by Lord Ono no Oyu, Junior Assistant Governor-General of Dazai.

青丹吉 寧樂乃京師者 咲花乃 薫如 今盛有

あをによし奈良の都は咲く花のにほふがごとく今盛りなり

awoni yosi
nara no miyako pa
saku pana no
nipopu ga gotoku
ima masakari nari
Good blue-black clay—
Nara, the capital,
As the flowering blossom
Glows,
Is in full-bloom today.

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 80

Left

ふくみあへず消えなむ雪を冬の日の花と見ればや鳥のとむらん

fukumiaezu
kienamu yuki o
fuyu no hi no
hana to mireba ya
tori no touran
Unable enter in
The vanishing snow
On a winter’s day,
Mistaking it for blossom, is that why
The birds do seek it out?

155

Right

This poem is missing from extant texts of the competition.

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 79

Left

白露ぞ霜となりける冬のよはあまの河さへ水こほりけり

shiratsuyu zo
shimo to narikeru
fuyu no yo wa
ama no kawa sae
mizu kōrikeri
Silver dewdrops
Have turned to frost
On this winter’s night
Even the River of Heaven’s
Waters have frozen.

153

Right

冬の海に降りいる雪やそこにゐて春たつ浪の花とさくらん

fuyu no umi ni
furi’iru yuki ya
soko ni ite
haru tatsu nami no
hana to sakuran
Upon the sea in winter,
Falling down, is the snow:
Does it rest upon the bed and
With the waves breaking in springtime
Bloom into blossom?

154

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 78

Left

月夜には花とぞ見ゆる竹のうへに降りしく雪を誰かはらはむ

tsukiyo ni wa
hana to zo miyuru
take no ue ni
furishiku yuki o
tare ka harawamu
On a moonlit night
As blossom it appears, so
From the bamboo
The fallen, scattered, snow—
Who would sweep it away?

151

Right

しら雪を分けてわかるるかたみには袖に涙のこほるなりけり

shirayuki o
wakete wakaruru
katami ni wa
sode ni namida no
kōru narikeri
That through the snow so white
I pressed on, forging,
A keepsake is
The tears upon my sleeves,
All frozen.

152

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 77

Left

雪のうちのみやまからこそおいはくれかしらのしろく成るをまづみよ

yuki no uchi no
miyama kara koso
oi wa kure
kashira no shiroku
naru o mazu miyo
Within the snows
From the mountains deep,
O, come, old age!
My head to white
Is turned—see that first!

149

Right

松の上にかかれる雪はよそにして時まどはせる花とこそみれ

matsu no ue ni
kakareru yuki wa
yoso ni shite
toki madowaseru
hana to koso mire
Upon the pine trees
Clings snow:
From afar,
The season has led astry
The blossom, it does appear!

150

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 68

Left

雪のみぞ枝にふりしき花もはもいにけむ方もみえずも有るかな

yuki nomi zo
eda ni furishiki
hana mo ha mo
inikemu kata mo
miezu mo aru kana
The snow is simply
Fallen, scattered, on the branches;
The blossom and the leaves, too:
Where might they have gone?
I cannot see!

133

Right

白雪の八重ふりしける帰る山かへるがへるも老いにけるかな

shirayuki no
yae furishikeru
kaeru yama
kaerugaeru mo
oinikeru kana
White snow
Falls eightfold on
Mount Return—
Returning and returning again
Is the age I feel!

Ariwara no Muneyana
134[1]


[1] Kokinshū XVII: 902/Shinsen man’yōshū 169/Kokin rokujō II: 1393

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 67

Left

霜がれの枝となわびそ白雪を花にやとひてみれどもあかず

shimogare no
eda to na wabi so
shirayuki o
hana ni ya toite
miredomo akazu
For the frost-burned
Branches, grieve not, for
White snows
As blossom will visit them, and
The sight will never sate.

131

Right

嵐ふく山下里にふる雪はとくむめの花咲くかとぞ見る

arashi fuku
yamashitazato ni
furu yuki wa
toku mume no hana
saku ka to zo miru
The storm wind blows
Upon the village ‘neath the mountains, where
Fallen snow,
Long since, had plum blossom
Made seem to bloom?

132

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 64

Left

神無月しぐれふるらしさほ山の正木のかづら色まさりゆく

kaminazuki
shigure fururashi
saoyama no
masaki no kazura
iro masarikeri
In the Godless Month
Showers fall, it seems, for
On Sao Mountain
The evergreen arrowroot’s
Hues are fine, indeed.

125[1]

Right

冬くれば梅に雪こそ降りかかれいづれのえをか花とはをらむ

fuyu kureba
mume ni yuki koso
furikakare
izure no e o ka
hana to wa oramu
When the winter comes
Upon the plum tree, truly, does snow
Fall and cling;
From which branch, I wonder
Should I pick the blossom?

126


[1] Shinkokinshū VI: 574