Round Sixteen
Left
荻のはは暮行く風に音すなり我がまつ人のかからましかば
ogi no ha wa kureyuku kaze ni otosu nari wa ga matsu hito no kakaramashikaba The cogon grass fronds
Major Controller of the Left Tametaka
Right
逢ふことはかた野にしげる荻の葉の音をばたつな秋ははつとも
au koto wa katano ni shigeru ogi no ha no oto oba tatsu na aki wa hatsu tomo Our meeting, so hard:
Horikawa, Court Lady to Her Highness
I feel that the emotions encompassed by the sound of the wind in ‘Were it the man I’m waiting for / It would be better’ sounded more striking than ‘On the hillside thickly growing, / O, cogon grass fronds’.
Cogon grass and the Same
Round Fifteen
Left
うき人を驚かすべき方ぞなきうらやましきは荻の上風
ukibito o odorokasubeki kata zo naki urayamashiki wa ogi no uwakaze That cruel girl:
Lecturer Kakuga
Right
荻原やよかぜぞつらき音せずはねてこそ人を夢にみましか
ogiwara ya yokaze zo tsuraki oto sezu wa nete koso hito o yume ni mimashika O, plain of cogon grass,
The Head
The conception of love sounds superior at present in envying the ‘wind blowing o’er the cogon grass’ than it does in the ‘unkind is the wind tonight’.
Love and Dew.
色をだに袖よりつたふ下荻の忍びし秋の野べのゆふ露
iro o dani sode yori tsutau shita’ogi no shinobishi aki no nobe no yūzuyu Simply by their hues
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Composed on the conception of evening.
たそがれに物おもひをれば我が宿の荻のはそよぎ秋風ぞふく
tasogare ni mono’omoi oreba wa ga yado no ogi no ha soyogi akikaze zo fuku With the twilight
On seeing silver grass in the grounds at dawn.
朝ぼらけ荻のうへふく秋風にしたばおしなみ露ぞこぼるる
asaborake ogi no ue fuku akikaze ni shitaba oshinami tsuyu zo koboruru Just as dawn is breaking
すむ人もなき宿なれど荻のはの露を尋ねて秋はきにけり
sumu hito mo naki yado naredo ogi no ha no tsuyu o tazunete aki wa kinikeri Folk living at
Round Twenty-Eight
Left
わぎもこをかたまつよひの秋風はをぎのうはばをよきてふかなん
wagimoko o kata matsu yoi no akikaze wa ogi no uwaba o yokite fukanan For my darling girl
Shun’e
Right (Win)
朝夕におつる涙や恋草のしげみにすがる露と成るらん
asayū ni otsuru namida ya koigusa no shigemi ni sugaru tsuyu to naruran Morn and eve
Atsuyori
The Right poem’s use of diction and expression has nothing wrong with it and is entirely appropriate.
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かぜさむみ伊勢のはま荻分行けばころもかりがねなみになくなり
kaze samumi The wind’s so chill, as
Former Middle Counsellor Masafusa
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Composed on the conception of the beginning of autumn.
秋はきぬ年もなかばにすぎぬとやをぎ吹くかぜのおどろかすらん
aki wa kinu Autumn, indeed, has come; and
Monk Jakunen
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Sent when her affair with Taira no Kaneki was finally coming to an end.
秋かぜの吹くにつけてもとはぬかなをぎの葉ならばおとはしてまし
akikaze no ‘I’ve had enough!’—the autumn wind
Nakatsukasa
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