Round Three
Left (Win)
春の夜のあくる霞の立田山これや神代の衣なるらん
haru no yo no akuru kasumi no tatsutayama kore ya kamiyo no koromo naruran At a spring night’s
Supernumerary Major Counsellor Moto’ie
Right
朝霞雲居をかけて見わたせばいたりいたらぬ山の端もなし
asagasumi kumoi o kakete miwataseba itari itaranu yama no ha mo nashi When, upon the morning haze
Nobunari, Senior Third Rank
Both Left and Right are difficult to tell apart, yet the Left’s ‘clothing of the Age of Gods’ would seem to be superior.
For the place where Nunohiki Falls was painted, on a screen in the Saishō Hall of the Four Heavenly Kings.
久方のあまつをとめが夏衣雲井にさらすぬのびきのたき
hisakata no Eternal
Lord Ari’ie
Created with Soan .
Composed for the Palace Poetry Match in Kanna 2[1] .
秋の夜の月に心のあくがれて雲井に物をおもふ比かな
aki no yo no On an autumn night
Former Emperor Kazan
Created with Soan . [1] The headnote here is erroneous, as the text of this contest records it as taking place in Kanna 1 [985].
Composed at the Poetry Match held at the Residence of the Uji Former Grand Minister.
山ざくらさきそめしより久かたの雲井にみゆるたきのしらいと
yamazakura sakisomeshi yori hisakata no kumoi ni miyuru taki no shira’ito Since the mountain cherries
Lord Minamoto no Toshiyori
Created with Soan.
As a poem on blossom, when he presented a hundred poem sequence to Former Emperor Sutoku.
かづらきやたかまの山のさくら花雲井のよそにみてや過ぎなん
kaduragi ya In Kazuragi
Master of the Left Capital Office Akisuke
Created with Soan .
巻向之 檜原毛未 雲居者 子松之末由 沫雪流
まきむくのひはらもいまだくもゐねばこまつがうれゆあわゆきながる
makimuku no In Makimuku
Distant views.
わたの原こぎ出でてみれば久かたの雲井もなみのうちにぞ有りける
wata no hara kogi’idete mireba hisakata no kumoi mo nami no uchi ni zo arikeru When across the wide seascape
Composed by command on the topic of a distant view across the sea when His Majesty [Emperor Sutoku] was newly retired as emperor.
わたのはらこぎいでてみれば久方の雲井にまがふおきつしらなみ
wata no Fara When across the wide seascape[i]
The Former Chancellor and Palace Minister
Created with Soan . [i] An allusive variation on Omuro gojisshu 601
Poems on the beginning of spring
九重の雲ゐに春ぞ立ちぬらしおほうちやまに霞たなびく
kokonoe no kumoi ni haru zo tachinurashi ōuchiyama ni kasumi tanabiku In ninefold layers of [i]
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Created with Soan. [i] Ōuchi Mountain (ōuchiyama 大内山) lies to the north of the Ninnaji 仁和寺 temple in the north-west of Kyoto, and was the site of a detached palace belonging to Emperor Uda 宇多 (866-931; r. 887-897).
Left
つゆばかりたのみおかなんことのはにしばしもとまるいのちありやと
tsuyu bakari tanomi okanan koto no ha ni shibashi mo tomaru inochi ari ya to Dewdrop fragile
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Right
はるさめのよにふるそらもおもほえずくもゐながらにひとこふるみは
harusame no yo ni furu sora mo omohoezu kumoi nagara ni hito kouru mi wa Spring showers
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