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SKS IV: 149

Composed when caught in a shower, while making a pilgrimage to one hundred temples in Higashiyama. 

もろともに山めぐりするしぐれかなふるにかひなき身とはしらずや

morotomo ni
yamamegurisuru
sigure kana
Furu ni kaFinaki
mi to Fa sirazu ya
Together with me
On my mountain pilgrimage are
The showers!
‘Tis pointless to fall
On my sorry self, don’t you know!

Master of the Left Capital Office Michimasa

Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta’awase 47

Round Eleven

Left

おぼつかないづれうらごの山ならんみなくれなゐにみゆる紅葉ば

obotsukana
izure urago no
yama naran
mina kurenai ni
miyuru momijiba
How strange it is—
Where is Urago
Mountain, I wonder?
When all the same scarlet
Seem the autumn leaves…

Kiyosuke
93

Right (Win)

大ゐ河きしのもみぢのちるをりは浪にたたするにしきとぞみる

ōigawa
kishi no momiji no
chiru ori wa
nami ni tatasuru
nishiki to zo miru
At the River Ōi,
When the scarlet leaves upon the bank
Come to fall,
Cut out by the waves,
Does their brocade appear!

Mikawa
94

When I listen to the Left I wonder what on earth it’s actually about—the end seems redolent of love. The Right doesn’t seem to have any particular faults, so it should win.