時鳥歎の杜に飽かずして君が待つをば過ぎにけるかな
| Fototogisu nageki no mori ni akazusite kimi ga matu woba suginikeru kana |
Of the cuckoos’ Sad cries in Nageki’s sacred groves You could never get enough While your wait Continued on! |
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Motosuke-shū 89
KKS XIX: 1055
Love VII: 1
Left (Tie).
年を經て茂るなげきをこりもせでなど深からん物思ひの山
| toshi o hete shigeru nageki o kori mo sede nado fukakaran mono’omoi no yama |
The years go by and My ever verdant grief Is never felled; Why am I so deep In mountains of gloomy thought? |
Kenshō.
961
Right.
君にわれ深く心を筑波山しげきなげきにこりはてぬ哉
| kimi ni ware fukaku kokoro o tsukubayama shigeki nageki ni korihatenu kana |
You for me Had deep thoughts once – All gone now, yet on Tsukuba Mountain My ever verdant grief Remains unfelled… |
The Supernumerary Master of the Empress’ Household Office.
962
The Right state: we are not familiar with the expression ‘mountains of gloomy thought’ (mono’omoi no yama) used in the Left’s poem. The Left state: the Right’s poem has nothing significant to say.
In judgement: both poems use the wordplay of ‘ever verdant grief’ (shigeki nageki) and a ‘heart unfelled’ (korinu kokoro); they have no particular merits or faults. The round ties.
Shūigūsō 1668
Love II: 2
Left (Tie).
いざさらば生田の杜に祈りみん頼む方なき戀の病を
| iza saraba ikuta no mori ni inorimin tanomu kata naki koi no yamai o |
So, now, To the sacred grove of Ikuta Shall I go to pray For this hopeless Love’s sickness… |
663
Right.
あはれとも思もやする我戀をなげきの杜の神に祈らん
| aware tomo omoi mo ya suru wa ga koi o nageki no mori no kami ni inoruran |
Pitiful Do you think me? So, the grief of love Will I burn in Nageki’s sacred grove As an offering… |
The Provisional Master of the Empress Household Office.
664
The Gentlemen of the Left and Right have nothing particular to say.
Shunzei’s judgement: the Left’s ‘so, now’ (iza saraba) seems pleasant. The Right’s poem has a fairly direct style. After comparison, this is a tie again.