Left
時鳥雲井の声を聞く人は心も空になりぞしにける
| Fototogisu kumowi no kowe wo kiku Fito Fa kokoro mo sora ni nari zo sinikeru |
A cuckoo From the clouds your call Folk hear, and Their hearts with the skies One do become! |
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Right (Win)
小夜更けて起きて待たずば時鳥はつかなる音もいかで聞かまし
| sayo Fukete okite matazuba Fototogisu Fatukanaru ne mo ikade kikamasi |
A brief night dawns, and Had I not awaited to arise A cuckoo’s Momentary cry Somehow I might have heard… |
12
Left
鳴くになど驚かるらむ時鳥呼ぶ人毎にありと聞きつつ
| naku ni nado odorokaruramu Fototogisu yobu Fito goto ni ari to kikitutu |
Why does your song Startle me so O, cuckoo? All the folk you call Are there, do I ever hear… |
5
Right (Win)
知らねども答へやせまし時鳥元つ人てふ声を哀れと
| siranedomo kotaFe ya semasi Fototogisu moto tu Fito teFu kowe wo aFare to |
I know it not, yet I wonder will you reply, O, cuckoo? A familiar friend’s Voice is moving, indeed. |
6
When he had gone to Kibune, he wrote this on the fence surrounding the shrine.
思ふ事なる河上に跡垂れて貴船は人を渡す也けり
| omoFu koto naru kaFa kami ni atotarete kibune Fa Fito wo watasu narikeri |
The focus of my thoughts Are the river’s upper flows, Where incarnated The deity at Kibune, folk Transports. |
Fujiwara no Tokifusa
藤原時房
Left (Tie).
憂き人に思ひ消たるる身の程を知らぬは戀の煙也けり
| ukibito ni omoiketaruru mi no hodo o shiranu wa koi no kemuri narikeri |
From that cruel one’s Thoughts, extinguished I am, all Unknowing of love’s Embers smoking. |
Lord Kanemune.
953
Right.
昔かく戀する人や富士の嶺の絶えぬ煙と燃えはじめけん
| mukashi kaku koisuru hito ya fuji no ne no taenu keburi to moehajimeken |
Long ago, in such Love did folk as The peak of Fuji With everlasting smoke Begin to burn? |
The Supernumerary Master of the Empress’ Household Office.
954
The Right state: the Left’s poem has no faults. The Left state: the Right’s poem is pedestrian.
In judgement: the Left’s ‘cruel one’ (ukibito) and the Right’s ‘folk in love’ (koisuru hito) should tie.