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
Takasuke, Gentleman-in-Waiting
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
Shimotsuke
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.
On the same conception.
あさとあけてながめやすらんたなばたはあかぬ別のそらをこひつつ
asa to akete With the morn, does she open up her door
Tsurayuki
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Sent when he had returned home from a lady’s house on a day when the snow was falling.
あけぬればくるる物とはしりながらなほうらめしきあさぼらけかな
akenureba Dawn has broken, and
Fujiwara no Michinobu
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On autumn mornings, kōshin Fourth Month, Kenpo 5.
をぐら山しぐるるころのあさなあさな昨日はうすき四方のもみぢば
ogurayama On gloomy Ogura Mountain
Former Middle Counsellor Sada’ie
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Marlberry
Left
あさごとにきりはふれどもあしひきのやまたち花はいろもかはらず
asa goto ni kiri wa furedomo ashihiki no yamatachibana wa iro mo kawarazu With every morning
13
Right
みねだにやすみうくならんあしひきのやまたち花のみやまゐをせる
mine dani ya sumi’ukunaran ashihiki no yamatachibana no miyamai o seru Does even the peak
14
The Beginning of Winter
Left (Tie)
しものうへにふるはつゆきのあさごほりとけむほどこそひさしかりけれ
shimo no ue ni furu hatsuyuki no asagōri tokemu hodo koso hisashikarikeri Upon the frost
17
Right
かみなづきもみぢのいろはふくかぜとたにのみづとぞおとしはてつる
kaminazuki momiji no iro wa fuku kaze to tani no mizu to zo otoshihatetsuru In the Godless Month
Mitsune
Left
しらつゆのおけるあしたのをみなへしはなにもはにもたまぞかかれる
shiratsuyu no okeru ashita no ominaeshi hana ni mo ha ni mo tama zo kakareru Silver dewdrops
7[1]
Right
をみなへしたてるのざとをうちすぎてうらみむつゆにぬれやん
ominaeshi tateru nozato o uchisugite uramimu tsuyu ni nure ya wataran A maidenflower
8
[1] Gyokuyōshū 526; Shinsen man’yōshū 606; Kokin rokujō 3687
妹に恋ひ寐ねぬ朝明にをし鳥のこゆかく渡る妹が使か
imo ni kopi Loving my darling
Sent to Mitsune’s house, the morning after Tanabata .
あさとあけてながめやすらん織女のあかぬ別のそらをこひつつ
asa to akete With the morning comes the dawn, and
Tsurayuki
At the new palace, on gazing on the tracks across the plains.
ますらをがあさふむのぢをみわたせばくもゐはるかにかくるせこなは
masurao ga A brawny man
Fujiwara no Akisuke
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