照る月を昼かと見れば暁に羽核搔く鴫もあらじとそ思ふ
| teru tuki wo Firu ka to mireba akatuki ni Fane kaku sigi mo arazi to zo omoFu |
The shining moon Makes it seem like noon, so With the dawn, Beating their wings, even the snipe Have gone, I feel. |
Ki no Tsurayuki
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MYS XIX: 4171
In Kanpyō-Shōhō 2 [750], on the 24th day of the Third Month, it would be near to the beginning of summer in the Fourth Month, so he composed these two poems when, on the evening of the 23rd day, he suddenly thought of a cuckoo calling at dawn.
常人も起きつつ聞くぞ霍公鳥この暁に来鳴く初声
| tunepito mo okitutu kiku zo pototogisu kono akatoki ni kinaku patugowe |
The folk of this world Remain awake and listen for The cuckoo With the dawn today To arrive and give his first call. |
Ōtomo no Yakamochi
Love V: 6
Left (Win).
あか月にあらぬ別も今はとて我が世ふくれば添ふ思ひかな
| akatsuki ni aranu wakare mo ima wa tote wa ga yo fukureba sou omoi kana |
At dawn This parting is not; Now it is When my life reaches twilight – I think… |
Lord Sada’ie.
851
Right.
翁さび身は惜しからぬ戀衣今はと濡れん人なとがめそ
| okina sabi mi wa oshikaranu koigoromo ima wa to nuren hito na togame so |
Feeling like an ancient, But I regret it not! My loving clothes: Now’s the time to dampen them But blame me not! |
Jakuren.
852
The Right state: the Left’s poem has no faults to mention. The Left state: we wonder about the appropriateness of ‘now’s the time to dampen them’ (ima wa to nuren).
In judgement: ‘Feeling like an ancient’ (okina sabi) ‘now’s the time to dampen them’ (ima wa to nuren) does not sound like it fits formally with ‘but I regret it not!’ (mi wa oshikaranu). The Left, in addition to sounding like it has no faults, has ‘this parting is not; now it is’ (aranu wakare mo ima wa tote), which certainly sounds right. It is superior.
