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Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 40

Autumn Poems                   Twenty Rounds

Left

あき風に初雁がねぞ響くなるたが玉章をかけて来つらむ

akikaze ni
hatsukari ga ne zo
hibikunaru
ta ga tamazusa o
kaketekitsuramu
The autumn wind
With the first goose calls does
Echo
Whose jewelled missives
Have they come bearing, I wonder?

Tomonori

78

Right

浦ちかくたつ秋霧はもしほやく煙とのみぞ見え渡りける

ura chikaku
tatsu akigiri wa
moshio yaku
keburi to nomi zo
miewatarikeru
Close by the bay
Rising autumn mist, as
Seaweed salt burning
Smoke simply
Appears everywhere.

79[1]


[1] Gosenshū VI: 273/Shinsen man’yōshū 325/Kokin rokujō I: 652