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Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta’awase 04

Round Four

Left

行人を野べの尾花にまねかせて色めきたてる女郎花かな

yuku hito o
nobe no obana ni
manekasete
iromeki tateru
ominaeshi kana
Folk going by
The meadows the silver grass
Is made to beckon by
The seductively standing
Maidenflowers!

Lord Fujiwara no Suetsune, Former Junior Assistant Minister of Central Affairs
7

Right (Win)

吹くをりぞ過ぐる人をばまねきけるかぜや尾花の心なるらん

fuku ori zo
suguru hito oba
manekikeru
kaze ya obana no
kokoro naruran
When it blows,
Folk passing by
Are beckoned—
Does the wind the silver grasses’
Heart become?

Minor Controller of the Left Fujiwara no Tamechika
8

The Left appears to have nothing remarkable about it, while the Right’s initial three sections sound clumsy, yet appear to have some degree of conception, so I would say it wins.

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Round Three

Left

女郎花露もわきてやおきつらんしほれ姿のあてにも有るかな

ominaeshi
tsuyu mo wakite ya
okitsuran
shioresugata no
ate ni mo aru kana
Upon the maidenflowers
Might the dew discriminate
In its falling?
For its dampened form
Is so fine!

Lord Minamoto no Michiyoshi, Minor Captain of the Inner Palace Guards, Right Division
5

Right (Win)

もも草の花もあだにやおもふらんひと色ならずうつす心を

momokusa no
hana mo ada ni ya
omouran
hito iro narazu
utsusu kokoro o
A multitude of grasses
Blooms: do they play me false
Should I think?
For not to one hue alone
Is my heart drawn…

Kojijū, Court Lady to Her Majesty
6

The Left, by saying ‘Might the dew discriminate / In its falling?’ seems to want to describe the way that the flowers’ colours become deeper or fainter. It is not appropriate, however, to use ‘dampened form’ in this way. Furthermore, saying something ‘seems fine’ lacks elegance, doesn’t it. The Right does not lack the conception of the topic, so it should win.

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Round Thirty-Four

Left

世のうさに秋の心のふかければおつる涙ももみぢしにけり

yo no usa ni
aki no kokoro no
fukakereba
otsuru namida mo
momijishinikeri
With the cruelty of this world,
In autumn, my heart is full
Down to its depths, so
Even my dripping tears
Have turned to scarlet hues.

Iemoto
67

Right (Win)

おもひでも又待つ事もなけれどもさすがに世こそすてもやられね

omoide mo
mata matsu koto mo
nakeredomo
sasuga ni yo koso
sute mo yararene
If I recall
I still to await
Have nothing at all, yet
Even so, indeed, this world
I am not ready to abandon!

Yūsei
68

Neither has anything wrong with it, yet the Right is superior.

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Left (Win)

あひ見てもあはでもなげくたなばたのいつかこころはのどけかるらむ

aimite mo
awade mo nageku
tanabata no
itsuka kokoro wa
nodokekaruramu
Even having met him,
Now she sees him not, grieving is
The Weaver Maid—
When is it that her heart
Might find some peace?

7

Right

あはずしておもひしよりもたなばたはあかずわかれてのちぞわびしき

awazushite
omoishi yori mo
tanabata wa
akazu wakarete
nochi zo wabishiki
She would not meet him
Once she thought, but far more, now,
The Weaver Maid,
Endlessly, after
Parting is filled with lonely sadness.

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Among the courtiers in service to His Majesty, former Emperor Uda, it was possible to pick out those who had some sensitivity and those who did not, so in a certain year, when the kōshin rite came around on the 7th day of the Seventh Month, those gentlemen who were thought to have this sensitivity spent the day composing poems on the topic of ‘feelings after meeting at Tanabata’ which were divided into teams and matched.

Left

としごとにこりずやあるらんたなばたのあひてこひしきわかれのみする

toshigoto ni
korizu ya aruran
tanabata no
aite koishiki
wakare nomi suru
Every single year
Does she never learn, I wonder?
The Weaver Maid
Meets and then with love
Does simply part.

1

Right (Win)

おもひやる心のそらにしらるればたなばたつめのわかれかなしな

omoiyaru
kokoro no sora ni
shirarureba
tanabatatsume no
wakare kanashiki
Yearning fills
The heavens of her heart—
How well she knows it, for
The Weaver Maid’s
Parting is so sad.

2

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Round Twenty-Four

Love

Left (Win)

恋しさのなぐさむ方やなからましつらき心をおもひませずは

koishisa no
nagusamu kata ya
nakaramashi
tsuraki kokoro o
omoimasezu wa
I wish my love for you
My consolation
Would be not—for then
Of your cold heart
I would not have to think…

Lord Kiyosuke
47

Right

君こずはうちへもいらじはらひつるねやのおもはむ事もはづかし

kimi kozu wa
uchi e mo iraji
haraitsuru
neya no omowamu
koto wa hazukashi
You have not come, so
I’ll not enter in—
Swept clean,
Thinking of my bedchamber
Is embarrassing, indeed!

Shun’e
48

Both are elegant, yet what comes after ‘within’ is not something which one would really feel, so I would say the Right loses.

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Round Seventeen

Left

夜もすがらをばすて山の月をみて昔にかよふ我がこころかな

yomosugara
obasuteyama no
tsuki o mite
mukashi kayou
wa ga kokoro kana
All night long
At Mount Obasute
Gazing upon the moon—
Drifting back to days gone by
Goes my heart!

Lord Kiyosuke
33

Right (Win)

山のはに雲のよこぎるよひのまは出でても月ぞ猶またれける

yama no ha ni
kumo no yokogiru
yoi no ma wa
idete mo tsuki zo
nao matarekeru
Along the mountains’ edge
Trail clouds
Throughout the night, so
Even as it rises, the moon
I am yet awaiting!

Atsuyori
34

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Round Twelve

Left (Tie)

秋風の吹くときくより七夕はこころのうちやすずしかるらん

akikaze no
fuku to kiku yori
tanabata wa
kokoro no uchi ya
suzushikaruran
Since the autumn breeze’s
Blowing she has heard,
The Weaver Maid
Surely within her heart
Feels a pleasant cool!

Suketaka
23

Right

七夕のまちつる程の久しさにはかなくあくる空をかへばや

tanabata no
machitsuru hodo no
hisashisa ni
hakanaku akuru
sora o kaeba ya
The Weaver Maid
Her waiting time’s
Eternity for
The briefly brightening
Sky would wish to change…

Moromitsu
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