Left
さくらばなちりぬるかぜのなごりにはみづなきそらになみぞたちける
sakurabana chirinuru kaze no nagori ni wa mizu naki sora ni nami zo tachikeru The cherry blossom
Tsurayuki
Right
みなそこにはるやくるらんみよしののよしののかはにかはづなくなり
minasoko ni haru ya kururan miyoshino no yoshino no kawa ni kawazu nakunari To the water’s depths
Tsurayuki
The Right won. His Majesty remarked, ‘There is a Royal poem here, so how could it lose?’
Left
さはみづにかはづなくなりやまぶきのうつろふいろやそこにみゆらむ
sawamizu ni kawazu nakunari yamabuki no utsurou iro ya soko ni miyuramu Among the marsh waters
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Right (Win)
ちりてゆくかたをだにみむはるがすみはなのあたりはたちもさらなむ
chiriteyuku kata o dani mimu harugasumi hana no atari wa tachi mo sara namu Scattering off
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Left (Win)
めにみえでかぜはふけどもあをやぎのなびくかたにぞはなはちりける
me ni miede kaze wa fukedomo aoyagi no nabiku kata ni zo hana chirikeru Unseen by my eyes
Mitsune
Right
あしひきのやまぶきのはなさきにけりゐでのかはづはいまやなくらむ
ashihiki no yamabuki no hana sakinikeri ide no kawazu wa ima ya nakuramu Leg-wearying
Okikaze[i]
‘The Right is old-fashioned,’ and so it lost.
[i] Despite Uda’s negative opinion of it, this poem is included in Shinkokinshū (II: 162), attributed to Okikaze, with the headnote, ‘A poem from the Poetry Contest held by Former Emperor Uda in Engi 13’.
On Rivers.
夕さらずかはづ鳴くなる三輪川の清き瀬の音を聞かくしよしも
yū sarazu
Evening comes, and
Anonymous
On frogs.
上つ瀬にかはづ妻呼ぶ夕されば衣手寒み妻まかむとか
kami tu se ni
In the rapids upstream
Anonymous
On frogs.
背を早み落ちたぎちたる白波にかはづ鳴くなり朝夕ごとに
se wo payami
The current flows so swift
Anonymous
On frogs.
草枕旅に物思ひ我が聞けば夕かたまけて鳴くかはづかも
kusa makura
Pillowed on the grass,
Anonymous
On frogs.
神なびの山下響み行く水にかはづ鳴くなり秋と言はむとや
kamunabi no
The sacred
Anonymous
On hearing the frogs .
我宿にあひ宿り宿りしてすむ蛙夜になればやものは悲しき
wa ga yado ni
At my home
Anonymous
みさびえの菱の浮き葉に隱ろへて蛙鳴くなり夕立の空
misahie no
In the stagnant inlet
Yoshitsune
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