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Teiji-in uta’awase 20

Left (Tie)

はなみつつをしむかひなくけふくれてほかのはるとやあすはなりなむ

hana mitsutsu
oshimu kainaku
kyō kurete
hoka no haru to ya
asu wa narinamu
Ever do I gaze upon the blossom, in
Vain regret, for
Today will end and
A different spring will
Greet me on the morrow!

Mitsune
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Right

けふのみとはるをおもはぬときだにもたつことやすきはなのかげかは

kyō nomi to
haru o omowanu
toki dani mo
tatsu koto ya suki
hana no kage ka wa
“Only today is left
Of spring”—I’ll not think that for
Even at such a time,
Is it easy to part from
The blossoms’ shade?

Mitsune
40[i]

‘Both of these are charming,’—they tied.


[i] This poem is included as the final spring poem in Kokinshū (II: 134), attributed to Mitsune, and with the headnote, ‘A poem on the end of spring from the Poetry Contest held by Former Emperor Uda’.

Kanpyō no ōntoki kisai no miya uta’awase 22

Left

空蝉の侘びしきものを夏草の露にかかれる身にこそ有りけれ

utsusemi no
wabishiki mono o
natsukusa no
tsuyu ni kakareru
mi ni koso arikere
A cicada’s empty shell
Is so sorrowful;
To a stalk of summer grass,
All draped with dewdrops,
It’s form does cling.

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Right

なつの夜の月はほどなく明けながらあしたの間をぞかこちよせける

natsu no yo no
tsuki wa hodonaku
akenagara
ashita no ma o zo
kakochiyosekeru
On a summer night,
The moon lacks time
To brighten, so
It will do it on the morrow—
That is its excuse!

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