無き名のみたつの市とはさわげどもいさまだ人をうるよしもなし
| nakina nomi tatu no iti to Fa sawagedomo isa mada Fito wo uru yosi mo nasi | Groundless rumours, As Tatsu market Make a racket, but, Well, I have yet on her To be sold! |
Hitomaro
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SIS XII: 699
SIS XII: 698
Reikeiden no nyōgo uta’awase 11
Love without meeting
Left (Win in a certain book)
かひもなきこひをのみしてよのなかにあはぬためしをわれやのこさむ
| kai mo naki koi o nomi shite yo no naka ni awanu tameshi o ware ya nokosamu | Pointlessly Yearning is all I do— In this mundane world, that We never meet: will that habit Be all that is left to me? |
Tadami
21[i]
Right (Win)
人をよにこひにこがるるわがみよりいくらのなみだここらいづらん
| hito o yo ni koi ni kogaruru wagami yori ikura no namida kokora izuran | For her within the night My yearning smoulders on, yet From my sorry self How many tears Might burst out in floods? |
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[i] An almost identical poem is included in Saigū nyōgo kishi joō uta’awase (21).
Kawara no in uta’awase 05
Blossoming silver grass beckoning folk.[i]
Left
はなすすきまねくたもとのあまたあればゆきもやられずあきのののみち
| hanasusuki maneku tamoto no amata areba yuki mo yararezu akino no michi | Of blossoming silver grass Beckoning sleeves Are there many, so I can go no further on The path across the autumn plains. |
9
Right (Win)
はなすすきまねくたもとやたゆからんはかるのかぜにかへるひとなみ
| hanasususki maneku tamoto ya tayukaran hakaru nokaze ni kaeru hito nami | Have the blossoming silver grass Sleeves their beckoning Ceased, perhaps? For with The deceitful breeze across the plains Returns not a single soul… |
10
[i] 花薄招人
SIS VII: 360
Rhododendron [sakunamusa].
紫の色にはさくなむさしのの草のゆかりと人もこそ見れ
| murasaki no iro ni Fa saku na musasino no kusa no yukari to Fito mo koso mire | In violet Hues it must bloom not— Lest on Musashi Plain With the grasses a bond Folk, too, imagine! |
Dharma Master Jogan
Jogan alludes to the sentiments expressed in KKS XVII: 867 here.
SIS III: 142
Dairi uta’awase – Tentoku yo-nen 14
Round Fourteen
Left (Tie)
さよふけてねざめざりせばほととぎす人づてにこそきくべかりけれ
| sayo fukete nezamezariseba hototogisu hitozute ni koso kikubekarikere | When brief night broke, and I failed to awaken to The cuckoo, Via a message, indeed, Was I able to hear it! |
Tadami
27
Right
人ならばまててふべきをほととぎすふたこゑとだにきかですぎぬる
| hito naraba mate chōbeki o hototogisu futa koe to dani kikade suginuru | Were you a man, ‘Wait!’ is what I’d tell you, O, cuckoo! For without even a second call For me to hear have you passed by. |
Motozane
28
The Left’s poem, where the poet seems to awaken without a thought of hearing the cuckoo, is certainly somewhat odd. Nevertheless, the poem overall is charming. As for the Right’s poem, well, what is the poet trying to say by asking the cuckoo to wait when he will hear its first call, if it were a man? Is the conception, perhaps, for the cuckoo to wait a while? There’s not enough diction for the conception here, I feel. Both of these are about the same standard, so I make this a tie.
SIS II: 88
SIS XVI: 1015
When various people had come to see the blossom blooming beautifully at his mountain retreat in Kitashirakawa.
春きてぞ人もとひける山ざとは花こそやどのあるじなりけれ
| Faru kite zo Fito mo toFikeru yamazato Fa Fana koso yado no aruzi narikere | Spring has come, and Folk visiting, too, My mountain retreat: The blossoms are the dwelling’s Master, to be sure! |
Kintō, Captain of the Outer Palace Guards, Right Division