On ‘And how I long to see the woodcutter’s…’[i]
山がつのかきほにさけるなでしこのはなの心をしる人のなさ
yamagatsu no kakio ni sakeru nadeshiko no hana no kokoro o shiru hito no nasa By the woodcutter’s
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[i] Topic unknown. あなこひし今も見てしか山がつのかきほにさける山となでしこ ana koishi / ima mo miteshika / yamagatsu no / kakio ni sakeru / yamato nadeshiko ‘O, how sweet! / And how I long to see / The woodcutter’s / Lattice fence, where blooms / My darling Yamato pink!’ Anonymous (KKS XIV: 695 )
Chrysanthemums
ませのうちによるおくつゆやいかならんぬれつつ菊のうつろひにける
mase no uchi ni yoru oku tsuyu ya ika naran nuretsutsu kiku no utsuroinikeru Within my lattice fence,
Gazing at the chrysanthemums in my garden on a rainy night.
露をおもみ籬のきくのほしもあへずはるればくもる村雨の空
tsuyu o omomi magaki no kiku no hoshi mo aezu harureba kumoru murasame no sora Weighed down with dew,
On picking a chrysanthemum bloom on a moonlit night
ぬれてをる袖の月かげふけにけり籬のきくの花のうへの露
nurete oru sode no tsukikage fukenikeri magaki no kiku no hana no ue no tsuyu Wet, when picking,
秋はぎのむかしの露に袖ぬれてふるき籬に鹿ぞ鳴くなる
akihagi no mukashi no tsuyu ni sode nurete furuki magaki ni shika zo nakunaru Upon the autumn bush-clover
Round Twenty-Two
Snow
Left (Win)
霜がれのまがきの中に雪ふれば菊より後の花もありけり
shimogare no magaki no naka ni yuki fureba kiku yori nochi no hana mo arikeri When, burned by frost,
Suketaka
Right
花さけば雪かとみせて雪ふれば花かとみするみよしのの山
hana sakeba yuki ka to misete yuki fureba hana ka to misuru miyoshino no yama When the blossom blooms
Kūnin
Both are elegant, but even so the Right should lose.
Round Six
Left (Win)
梅の花をりてかざせば二月の雪は衣におつるなりけり
ume no hana orite kazaseba kisaragi no yuki wa koromo ni otsuru narikeri When plum blossom
Masashige
Right
時ならぬ卯花ともやおもはましかきねの梅のかをらざりせば
toki naranu u no hana tomo ya omowamashi kakine no ume no ka orazariseba Unseasonal
Atsuyori
The Left is not lacking in conception.
Plum
Round Three
Left (Tie)
あしがきのおくゆかしくもみゆるかな誰がすむ宿の梅の立えぞ
ashigaki no oku yukashiku mo miyuru kana ta ga sumu yado no ume no tachie zo A fence of reeds and
Lord Kiyosuke
Right
ひばりあがる春の日ぐらし袖たれてかきねの梅の花みるわれは
hibari agaru haru no higurashi sode tarete kakine no ume no hana miru ware wa Skylarks soar
Kenshō
The Left is in cliched style, while the final line of the Right is interrupted—a tie, I think.
Topic unknown.
あなこひし今も見てしか山がつのかきほにさける山となでしこ
ana koFisi O, how sweet!
Anonymous
On the conception of chrysanthemums under the moon by a lattice fence, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.
霜をまつまがきの菊のよひの間におきまよふ色は山のはの月
shimo o matsu Awaiting the frost
Kunaikyō
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