[One of] Seven poems composed at a banquet at the residence of the Tachibana Minister of the Right.
この岡に小鹿踏み起しうかねらひかもかもすらく君故にこそ
kono woka ni Upon this hill
Kosobe no Shitsuma
Same as before.
ふりはへて折りに来たればこまにしきくれなゐふかき岡つつじかな
furihaete orinikitareba koma nishiki kurenai kaki okatsutsuji kana I exhaust myself
Sagami
Dwarf Bamboo 小篠
あさタに露のしら玉みるものをいたくなかりそ岡のささはら
asa yū ni Morning and evening both
Akinaka
Left (Tie)
omoikane
Unable to bear the pains of love, and
A Servant Girl
Right
omoikane
Unable to bear the pains of love,
Ietaka
Same as the previous round.
In judgement: here we have ‘O, just blow gently’ (fuki dani susame ), and the Right has ‘Past my eaves, where on the hillside’ (nokiba no oka no ): these recollect the poems ‘in the depths of sleep I tread to you’ (uchinuru naka ni yukikayou ) and ‘the beams strike the hillside through the pine needles’ (sasu ya okabe no matsu no ha ); both sound elegant. I make this round a tie.
雁がねの寒く鳴きしゆ水茎の岡の葛葉は色づきにけり
kari ga ne no
Since the geese have
霍公鳥鳴く声聞くや卯の花の咲き散る岡に葛引く娘女
pototogisu
The cuckoos’
[One of] two poems composed by Lord Ōtomo, the Governor-General.
我が岡にさを鹿来鳴く初萩の花妻どひに来鳴くさを鹿
wa ga woka ni
To my hill
Ōtomo no Tabito
Summer Grasses (夏草)
みわたせばむかひのをかの夏草をたがかふ駒のためにかるらん
miwataseba
mukai no oka no
natsu kusa o
ta ga kau koma no
tame ni karuran When I gaze across
Higo
春のをかにのぼりて見けむ竹取はかみのよならぬことをしぞ思ふ
haru no oka ni
In springtime, the hills
Minamoto no Morotoki
'Simply moving and elegant'