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
Novice Dōchin
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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
Dharma Master Nyogan
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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.
On the same conception.
あさとあけてながめやすらんたなばたはあかぬ別のそらをこひつつ
asa to akete With the morn, does she open up her door
Tsurayuki
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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 My darling’s house has
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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 Upon my pinewood door
Ietaka, Senior Third Rank
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ただならじ戸ばかり叩く水鶏ゆゑあけてはいかにくやしからまし
tada naraji It is not so easy, I think –
Murasaki Shikibu
夜もすがら水鶏よりけに鳴く鳴くぞ真木の戸口に叩きわびつる
yomosugara All night long
Fujiwara no Michinaga
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叩くとて宿の妻戸を開けたれば人も梢の水鶏なりけり
tataku totew o
Knocking at
Anonymous
Sad thoughts.
夕凝りの霜置きにけり朝戸出にいたくし踏みて人に知らゆな
yupu kori no With the evening chill
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
In the morning, opening the door
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
On parting.
朝戸出の君が姿をよく見ずて長き春日を恋ひや暮らさむ
asa tode no
In the morning, opening the door
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