Left (Win)
tare to naku To no one
A Servant Girl
Right
izukata o Whither
Jakuren
Both Left and Right together state: neither poem is bad.
In judgement: both poems seem elegant in configuration and diction, but the Right’s ‘girl from Naniwa’ (naniwame) raises the same issue as ‘diving girl’, only more so – there is not even evidence on this from inclusion in the Collection of Poems to Sing, is there? The Left’s ‘cleaving, they return; pillowed on the waves’ (yosete wa kaeru namimakura) really does seem like a pleasure girl, so I must say it is superior.
Love and Bridges.
naniwagata At the Naniwa tidelands
Fujiwara no Tadamichi
難波潟鶴ぞ鳴くなるこれやこの田蓑の島のわたりなるらむ
naniFagata
At the shore of Naniwa
Minamoto no Moroyori
難波江の藻に埋るる玉柏あらはれてだに人を恋はや
naniFae no
By the bay of Naniwa
Minamoto no Toshiyori
Composed when he had gone to Naniwa, and the moon was bright.
いにしへの難波の事を思出でゝ高津の宮に月のすむらむ
inisiFe no
About ancient
Consultant Moriyori
Topic unknown.
難波潟潮満ちくらしあま衣たみのの島に鶴鳴き渡る
naniFagata
At the shore of Naniwa
Anonymous
Left (Tie).
これやこの心ある人のながむべき難波わたりの春の明ぼの
kore ya kono
Is this what
Lord Kanemune .
113
Right (Tie).
あはれさは古りゆくまゝにそへてけり高津の宮の春の明ぼの
awaresa wa
How moving!
The Provisional Master of the Empress’ Household Office.
114
Neither team has any particular remarks to make about the other’s poems this round.
Shunzei, too, merely says, ‘Both poems make splendid use of places such as ‘the Palace at Takatsu’ (takatsu no miya ), ‘close by to Naniwa’ (naniwa watari ) and ‘dawn’ (akebono ). It is difficult to decide on which is better. The round must, therefore, be a tie.’
難波津に咲くやこの花冬籠り今は春べと咲くやこの花
naniFadu ni
On the shore at Naniwa
Kana Preface
Cold upon the reeds in the bay.
霜枯にのこるともなき難波江のあしねや老のしるしなるらむ
shimogare ni
Frost burned and
Sent to the Kyōgoku Mother of Princes (Fujiwara no Hōshi 藤原褒子) after things got out.
わびぬれば今はた同じ難波なる身をつくしても逢はんとぞ思
wabinureba
Suffering I was, so
Prince Motoyoshi (d. 943)
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