年ふとも音にはたてじ音羽川した行く水のしたのおもひを
| toshi fu tomo oto ni wa tateji otowagawa shita yuku mizu no shita no omoi o | The years may pass, yet I’ll make not a sound, as The Otowa River’s Waters flow beneath, so Secret will be my passion’s fire… |
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Tag Archives: Otowa
Kinkai wakashū 461
Teiji-in uta’awase 23
Left (Tie)
むらさきにあふみづなれやかきつばたそこのいろさへかはらざるらむ
| murasaki ni au mizu nare ya kakitsubata soko no iro sae kawararuramu | Violet Suits the water here! Irises The hues beneath Seem to have changed. |
Mitsune
45
Right
ほととぎすこゑのみするはふくかぜのおとはのやまになけばなりけり
| hototogisu koe nomi suru wa fuku kaze no otowa no yama ni nakeba narikeri | A cuckoo’s Call alone upon The gusting wind; Wingbeats sound on Otowa Mountain Where he does sing. |
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Koresada Shinnō-ke uta’awase 3
音羽山秋としなれば唐錦かけたることも見ゆる紅葉か
| otowayama aki to shi nareba karanishiki kaketaru koto mo miyuru momiji ka | On Otowa Mountain When autumn comes Cathay brocade Is hung about – Seem so the scarlet leaves? |
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女郎花何の心になけれども秋はさくべきこともゆゆしく
| ominaeshi nani no kokoro ni nakeredomo aki wa sakubeki koto mo yuyushiku | O, maidenflowers, Something within my heart Is lacking, yet That you must bloom in autumn Is a fine thing, indeed! |
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Eikyū hyakushu 362
Minbukyō yukihira uta’awase 2
Left (Win)
おぼつかな音羽の山の時鳥さすがにいはぬ言な頼めそ
| obotukana otoFa no yama no Fototogisu sasuga ni iFanu koto na tanome so |
I wonder about Wingbeats on Otowa Mountain, The cuckoo: Truly in unsaid Words place no trust! |
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Right
誰とかは言はかたらふ時鳥まづ我が聞くにいはで渡るは
| tare to ka Fa koto Fa kataraFu Fototogisu madu wa ga kiku ni iFade wataru Fa |
To whom is it that Tales you tell, O, Cuckoo? When first I listen, Wordless, do you fly back and forth… |
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SIS VIII: 445
Written on the rocks by the waterfall at Provisional Middle Councillor Atsutada’s mountain retreat at Nishi-sakamoto.
音羽川せき入れて落す瀧つせに人の心のみえもするかな
| otoFagaFa seki’irete otosu taki tu se ni Fito no kokoro no mie mo suru kana |
On Otowa River A barrier is placed to drop A cataract in torrents And, your heart, perhaps, Reveal! |
Ise
伊勢
Fubokushō XII: 4599
GSIS I: 4
Love I: 16
Left (Win).
名に立てる音羽の瀧も音にのみ聞くより袖の濡るゝ物かは
| na ni tateru otowa no taki mo oto ni nomi kiku yori sode no nururu mono ka wa |
The name is known: Otowa Falls Sounds forth; and just Hearing that Is enough to soak my sleeves? Surely not! |
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Right.
鹿の音も嵐にたぐふ鐘の音も聞くよりこそは袖は濡れしか
| shika no ne mo arashi no taguu kane no oto mo kiku yori koso wa sode wa nureshika |
The braying of the stags, and With the storm wind The tolling bells: Hearing alone Does soak my sleeves. |
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The Gentlemen of the Right state: there is nothing worth mentioning in the Left’s poem. The Gentlemen of the Left state: using ne (‘braying’) and oto (‘sound’) in the same poem is a fault [yamai].
Shunzei’s judgement: Both poems are tasteful in form [utazama wa yū] , but the Right’s does contain a fault, as the Left have stated. Thus, the Left should win.