Autumn
Round Seven
Left
秋山はからくれなゐに成りにけりいくしほしぐれふりてそめけん
akiyama wa karakurenai ni narinikeri iku shio shigure furite someken The autumn mountains
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Right (Win)
秋きぬとめにはさやかにみえねども風の音にぞおどろかれぬる
aki kinu to me ni wa sayaka ni mienedomo kaze no oto ni zo odorokarenuru That autumn has come
Fujiwara no Toshiyuki 14[2]
[1] Shokugosenshū VII: 429
[2] This poem was particularly highly evaluated and so is included in numerous other anthologies (Kokin rokujō I: 125), exemplary collections (Shinsen waka 2) and senka awase – contests assembled from prior poems (Shunzei sanjū roku nin uta’awase 61; Jidai fudō uta’awase 49).
Summer
Round Four
Left
匂ふよりここちあだなる花ゆゑにのどけきはるの風もうらみじ
niou yori kokochi adanaru hana yue ni nodokeki haru no kaze mo uramiji From their fragrance
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Right (Win)
夏の夜のぬるほどもなく明けぬればあしたのまをぞかこちよせつる
natsu no yo no nuru hodo mo naku akenureba ashita no ma o zo kakochiyosetsuru On a summer night
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Composed on plovers.
沖つ潮指出の磯の浜千鳥風寒からし夜半に友呼ぶ
oki tsu shio From the offing the tides
Supernumerary Middle Counsellor [Fujiwara no] Nagakata (1139-1191)
Topic unknown.
さざなみや志賀のからさき風さえてひらのたかねに霰ふるなり
sazanami ya shiga no karasaki kaze saete hira no takane ni arare furunari Wavelets wash
The Hosshōji Lay Priest, former Chancellor and Palace Minister [Fujiwara no Tadamichi]
Composed on the conception of the autumn wind at a mountain retreat.
山ざとのしづの松がきひまをあらみいたくなふきそこがらしのかぜ
yamazato no Around this mountain dwelling
Ōmiya Echizen
In reply.
こがらしのもりのした草風はやみ人のなげきはおひそひにけり
kogarasi no The biting wind upon
Anonymous
On the cold wind.
木がらしのおとはすぎにし時なれどときはにつねに松にふく風
kogarashi no The biting wind’s
Anonymous
あきのよにかりとなくねをきくときは我がみのうへと思ひこそすれ
aki no yo ni kari to naku ne o kiku toki wa wa ga mi no ue to omoi koso sure On an autumn night,
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いまよりはいざまつかげにたちよらむ秋のもみぢはかぜさそひけり
ima yori wa iza matsu kage ni tachiyoramu aki no momiji wa kaze sasoikeri From now it is, that
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しら露のおきしくのべを見るごとにあはれは秋ぞかずまさりける
shiratsuyu no okishiku nobe o miru goto ni aware wa aki zo kazu masarikeru Silver dewdrops,
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あきかぜのうちふくからにはなもはもみだれてもちるのべの草きか
aki kaze no uchifuku kara ni hana mo ha mo midarete mo chiru nobe no kusaki ka The autumn breeze
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山ざとは秋こそものはかなしけれねざめねざめにしかはなきつつ
yamazato wa aki koso mono wa kanashikere nezame nezame ni shika wa nakitsutsu A mountain retreat in
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ことのねをかぜのしらべにまかせてはたつたひめこそあきはひくらし
koto no ne o kaze no shirabe ni makasete wa tatsustahime koso aki wa hikurashi A zither’s strains
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