Round 5

Left (Win)

朝日影まだ出でやらぬ足引の山はかすみの色ぞうつろふ

asahi kage mada ideyaranu ashihiki no yama wa kasumi no iro zo utsurou

The morning sunlight Has yet to fall upon The leg-wearying Mountains, yet the haze’s Hues are shifting.

Takasuke, Gentleman-in-Waiting
9

Right

山姫のかすみのそでも紅に光そへたる朝日影かな

yamahime no kasumi no sode mo kurenai ni hikari soetaru asahi kage kana

The mountain princess has Her sleeves of haze turned Scarlet Draped with light by The morning sunshine!

Shimotsuke
10

The Left’s poem has no faults worth pointing out; the poem of the Right’s ‘morning sunlight draping scarlet light across the sleeves of haze’ is overly gorgeous, I think, while the Left seems perfectly beautiful, so it should win.