Left
あさぎりとのべにむれたるをみなへしあきをすぐさずいひもとめなん
| asagiri to nobe ni muretaru ominaeshi aki o sugusazu ii mo tomenan | Amid the morning mists Upon the meadow clusters A maidenflower I’ll not let autumn pass by Without a word to hold her here. |
9
Right
あきかぜのふきそめしよりをみなへしいろふかくのみみゆるのべかな
| akikaze no fukisomeshi yori ominaeshi iro fukaku nomi miyuru nobe kana | Since the autumn wind First began to blow, The maidenflowers’ Hues have simply deepened, Glimpsed upon the meadows! |
10
On the conception of love on first meeting, from a hundred poem sequence at the residence of the Gohosshōji Lay Priest and Former Regent and Chancellor [Fujiwara no Tadamichi].
たのまずはしかまのかちの色をみよあひそめてこそふかくなるなれ
| tanomazu wa shikama no kachi no iro o miyo ai somete koso fukaku narunare | Unasked, Shikama’s fresh dyed Hues behold! Our first meeting’s indigo dyes Grow ever deeper! |
Round 8
Left
花の色はかすみのひまにほのみえて山のはにほふ春の暁
| hana no iro wa kasumi no hima ni honomiete yama no ha niou haru no akebono | The blossoms’ hues Between the shifting haze I briefly glimpse, and The mountains’ edges glow With the dawn in springtime. |
325
Right
あだし夜の花にとききてゆく雁の名残もいとど有明のそら
| adashiyo no hana ni toki kite yuku kari no nagori mo itdodo ariake no sora | To fleeting night’s Blossoms has the time come, and The departing geese leave A keepsake more brief In the skies at dawn. |
326
This round, again, it seems difficult to distinguish between the the two poems.
Former Emperor Gosukō (1372-1456)
後崇光院
Left
ちらねどもかねてぞをしき紅葉ばは今はかぎりの色と見つれば
| chiranedomo kanete zo oshiki momijiba wa ima wa kagiri no iro to mitsureba | They have not scattered, yet Truly do I regret, that The scarlet leaves Have now reached the limit of Their hues, it seems, so… |
139
Right
白雲のおりゐる宿とみえつるは降りくる雪のとけぬなりけり
| shirakumo no ori’iru yado to mietsuru wa furikuru yuki no tokenu narikeri | Clouds of white Have descended on my house It seems, so The snow, come falling, Will not melt, at all. |
140
Left
みよしのの山のしら雪ふみ分けて入りにし人のおとづれもせぬ
| miyoshino no yama no shirayuki fumiwakete irinishi hito no otozure mo senu | Through fair Yoshino Mountain’s white snow fall Forging, He entered in, And not a line returned. |
Tadamine
129[1]
Right
吹く風は色も見えねど冬くればひとりぬるよの身にぞしみける
| fuku kaze wa iro mo mienedo fuyu kureba hitori nuru yo no mi ni zo shimikeru | The gusting wind Shows no hue, yet When the winter comes, Sleeping alone at night It chills me to the bone. |
130
[1] Kokinshū VI: 327/Shinsen man’yōshū 183/Kokin rokujō I: 712.
Left
秋の月草むらわかずてらせばややどせる露を玉とみすらん
| aki no tsuki kusamura wakazu teraseba ya yadoseru tsuyu o tama to misuran | Does the autumn moon Not forge through the grassy thickets As it shines? For The dewdrops it lodges there It seems to display as jewels. |
114
Right
なほざりに秋のみやまに入りぬれば錦のいろの衣をこそきれ
| naozari ni aki nomi yama ni irinureba nishiki no iro no kinu o koso kire | Easily, indeed, Does autumn, simply, to the mountains Enter in, so In garb the hue of Brocade do they clothe themselves! |
115
Left
唐ころもほせど袂の露けきは我が身の秋になればなりけり
| karakoromo hosedo tamoto no tsuyukeki wa wa ga mi no aki ni nareba narikeri | My Cathay robe I dry, and yet the sleeves Dew dampness is because For me autumn Has come. |
108[1]
Right
秋の露色のことごとおけばこそ山も紅葉も千くさなるらめ
| aki no tsuyu iro no kotogoto okeba koso yama mo momiji mo chigusa narurame | The autumn dewdrops In a medley of colours Do truly fall, so The mountains and the autumn leaves, too, Turn a multitude of hues. |
109
[1] Shinchokusenshū V: 298
Left
ちらねどもかねてぞをしき紅葉ばは今はかぎりの色とみつれば
| chiranedomo kanete zo oshiki momijiba wa ima wa kagiri no iro to mitsureba | Not fallen yet Even now is there something to regret In the scarlet autumn leaves, For already the utmost of Their hues do I see, so… |
96[1]
Right
白波に秋の木のはのうかべるはあまのながせる舟かとぞ見る
| shiranami ni aki no ko no ha no ukaberu o ama no nagaseru fune ka to zo miru | Atop the whitecaps Autumn leaves Float as Divers’ drifting Boats seeming. |
97[2]
[1] Kokinshū V: 264/Shinsen man’yōshū 105.
[2] Kokinshū V: 301, attributed to Fujiwara no Okikaze/Kokin rokujō III: 1825, attributed to Kiyowara no Fukayabu.