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Kinkai wakashū 136

Deutzia

わがやどのかきねにさける卯花のうきことしげき世にこそ有りけれ

wa ga yado no
kakine ni sakeru
unohana no
uki koto shigeki
yo ni koso arikere
At my house
Upon the brushwood fence bloom
Deutzia flowers—
Sad things, alone, grow well
Indeed, in this world of ours! [i]
A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.

[i] An allusive variation on: On blossom. うぐひすのかよふかきねのうのはなのうきことあれやきみがきまさぬ uguisu no / kayou kakine no / unohana no / uki koto are ya / kimi ga kimasanu ‘The warbler / Flits around my brushwood fence’s / Deutzia blooms— / Is there some sad event which / Stops my Lord from coming?’ Anonymous (MYS X: 1988).

MYS X: 2271

On blossom

草深三 蟋多 鳴屋前 芽子見公者 何時来益牟

くさふかみ こほろぎさはに なくやどの はぎみにきみは いつかきまさむ

kusa pukami
koporogi sapa ni
naku yado no
pagi mi ni kimi pa
ituka kimasamu
Deep within the grasses
So noisily the crickets
Cry around your house—
You gaze upon the bush clover, sir, but
When might you visit me?

Anonymous

MYS X: 2159

Composed on crickets.

影草乃 生有屋外之 暮陰尓 鳴蟋蟀者 雖聞不足可聞

かげくさの おひたるやどの ゆふかげに なくこほろぎは きけどあかぬかも

kagekusa no
opitaru yado no
yupukage ni
naku koporogi pa
kikedo akanu kamo
Shading grasses
Grow at my house and
In the evening light
The crying crickets
I hear, yet never am fulfilled!

Anonymous

Daikōtaigōgū daijin kiyosuke-ason ke uta’awase 03

Plum

Round Three

Left (Tie)

あしがきのおくゆかしくもみゆるかな誰がすむ宿の梅の立えぞ

ashigaki no
oku yukashiku mo
miyuru kana
ta ga sumu yado no
ume no tachie zo
A fence of reeds and
Within, how charming
They appear!
Who is it dwells at this house of
Beckoning branches of plum?

Lord Kiyosuke
5

Right

ひばりあがる春の日ぐらし袖たれてかきねの梅の花みるわれは

hibari agaru
haru no higurashi
sode tarete
kakine no ume no
hana miru ware wa
Skylarks soar
In springtime all day long,
Dangling my sleeves, upon
The plum inside the lattice fence,
At the blossom gaze I…

Kenshō
6

The Left is in cliched style, while the final line of the Right is interrupted—a tie, I think.