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Entō ōn’uta’awase 6

Left (Tie)

山のはに有明の月の残らずは霞にあくる空をみましや

yama no ha ni
ariake no tsuki no
nokorazu wa
kasumi ni akuru
sora o mimashi ya
Upon the mountains’ edge
Had the moon at dawn
Not lingered, then
On the brightening, hazy
Sky would I have turned my gaze?

Shō
11

Right

朝戸あけてながめなれたる明ぼのの霞ばかりに春を知るかな

asa to akete
nagamenaretaru
akebono no
kasumi baraki ni
haru o shiru kana
With morn, opening my door, and
Accustomed to gazing
At the dawn
The haze is all that
Tells me ‘tis spring![1]

Nagatsuna, Ranked without Office
12

The Left’s poem has ‘would I wish to see the skies brightening with haze’, which does not seem bad, but the initial line drop ‘dawn’ and the latter part ‘brightening with haze’ which is a bit dubious; the Right’s poem really has nothing special about it. The poems are comparable and tie.


[1] An allusive variation on GSS V: 249.

Entō ōn’uta’awase 4

Round Four

Left (Win)

あけぬるか霞の衣たちかへり猶君が代の春をまつかな

akenuru ka
kasumi no koromo
tachikaeri
nao kimi ga yo no
haru o matsu kana
Is it the breaking dawn that
Hazy raiment
Casts back?
Ever for my Lord’s reign’s
Springtime do I pine!

Novice Dōchin

7

Right

天の戸のあけゆく空はうれしきを猶はれやらず立つ霞かな

ama no to no
akeyuku sora wa
ureshiki o
nao hareyarazu
tatsu kasumi kana
That Heaven’s door
Opens to brighten the sky—
What joy, but
Still, never clearing is
The rising haze!

Dharma Master Nyogan

8

The Left poem’s links with celebration are certainly not something praiseworthy, but I am unable to accept the Right’s ‘joy’. Thus, the Left wins.

MYS VIII: 1596

A poem by Ōtomo no sukune Yakamochi when he arrived at a maiden’s gate.

妹家之 門田乎見跡 打出来之 情毛知久 照月夜鴨

いもがいへの かどたをみむと うちいでこし こころもしるく てるつくよかも

imo ga ipe no
kadota wo mimu to
uti’idekosi
kokoro mo siruku
teru tukuyo kamo
My darling’s house has
Rice fields before its door—to see them
Have I come,
My heart brightened on
A shining moonlit night!
A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

SCSS IV: 267

On the moon at a mountain retreat, for a Fifty Poem Sequence at the residence of the Lay Priest Prince of the Second Order.

松のとをおしあけ方の山かぜに雲もかからぬ月を見るかな

matsu no to o
oshiakegata no
yamakaze ni
kumo mo kakaranu
tsuki o miru kana
Upon my pinewood door
Pushes at the break of dawn
A breeze from off the mountains, so
Unencumbered by the clouds
Do I see the moon!

Ietaka, Senior Third Rank

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

MYS XI: 2357

朝戸出の君が足結を濡らす露原早く起き出でつつ我れも裳裾濡らさな

asa tode no
kimi ga ayupi wo
nurasu tuyu para
payaku oki
idetutu ware mo
mosuso nurasana
In the morning, opening the door
Bound up, your belt
Will be drenched by the dewy fields;
Swiftly rising
I, too, shall venture out and
Soak my skirt-hem…

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
柿本人麻呂歌集