A summer poem.
さ月まつをだのますらをいとまなみせきいるる水にかはづ鳴くなり
| satsuki matsu oda no masurao itoma nami seki iruru mizu ni kawazu naku nari | Awaiting the Fifth Month The brawny fieldmen, With no time to spare Shift water from the weir where The frogs are crying. |
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Kinkai wakashū 117
Kinkai wakashū 94
Teiji-in uta’awase 19
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 Scattering wind as A keepsake in The waterless skies Has roused the waves. |
Tsurayuki
37
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 Has the spring arrived, it seems, for In fair Yoshino From the Yoshino River The frogs are singing. |
Tsurayuki
38
The Right won. His Majesty remarked, ‘There is a Royal poem here, so how could it lose?’
Teiji-in uta’awase 14
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 The frogs are crying; The kerria’s Fading hues—might They see them below the surface there? |
27
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 If only I might see them, but The spring haze Around the blossoms is Already rising! |
28
Teiji-in uta’awase 13
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 The wind does blow, yet The green willow Bends toward The scattering blossom. |
Mitsune
25
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 Mountain kerria flowers Have bloomed; In Ide will the frogs Now be a’singing? |
Okikaze
26[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’.