Mist
Left (Tie)
うすしともみゆるものからさほやまのみねのあきぎりあきたちにけり
| usushi to mo miyuru mono kara saoyama no mine no akigiri aki tachinikeri | Faint Does it appear, so with Mount Sao’s Peak in autumn mists Autumn has come! |
Taira no Tōmi
13
Right
あさぎりはたつともみえずいとどしきをぐらのやまのふもととおもへば
| asagiri wa tatsu mo miezu itodoshiki ogura no yama no fumoto to omoeba | The morning mists Arise, and hidden Even more are Gloomy Mount Ogura’s Foothills… |
Taira no Sanenao
14
Round Ten
Left
をぐらやま下ゆく水のさざれ石も数かくれなくてらす月かげ
| ogurayama shita yuku mizu no sazare’ishi mo kazu kakurenaku terasu tsukikage | Beneath gloomy Mount Ogura Flow waters full Of pebbles, Unable to conceal their numbers In the shining moonlight. |
Lord Kiyosuke
67
Right (Win)
あまの川とわたる月の影すみてにごれるよともみえぬ空かな
| ama no kawa towataru tsuki no kage sumite nigoreru yo tomo mienu sora kana | Across the River of Heaven’s Mouth passes the moon’s Clear light— Even this cloudy world Does not appear so beneath this sky! |
Shinkaku
68
There’s nothing to mention about the Left, and the same is the case for the Right, but for some reason should it win?
Round Twenty-One
Left (Win)
小倉山木木のもみぢのくれなゐはみねの嵐のおろすなりけり
| ogurayama kigi no momiji no kurenai wa mine no arashi no orosu narikeri | On gloomy Mount Ogura The leaves upon the trees, So scarlet, By the storm wind from the peak Are tossed down. |
Lord Kiyosuke
41
Right
ふかくあさきもみぢばながるあすか河ふちせは色にあらはれにけり
| fukaku asaki momijiba nagaru asukagawa fuchise wa iro ni arawarenikeri | Across both depths and shallows Flow the scarlet leaves On the Asuka river, Among the rapids and the pools Have they appeared. |
Shun’e
42
Neither of these is bad. The Right violates the five syllable pattern; the Left has no faults.
