つらしともいざやいかがはいはし水あふせまだきにたゆる心は
| tsurashi to mo iza ya ikaga wa iwashimizu ause madaki ni tayuru kokoro wa | How cruel! Why as Spring waters rushing from the rocks did Our meeting swiftly Did you wish to end? |
Kazusa, in service to the Empress
23
In reply
世世ふともたえじとぞ思ふ神がきの岩ねをくぐる水の心は
| yo yo futomo taeji to zo omou kamigaki no iwane o kuguru mizu no kokoro wa | Age upon age may pass, yet Never shall we end, I feel, as from The sacred precinct’s Rocky roots flow Waters—that is my heart! |
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Icicles
山ざとは谷の下水つららゐていはうつ浪の音だにもせず
| yamazato wa tani no shitamizu tsurara ite iwa utsu nami no oto dani mo sezu | At a mountain retreat The waters in the valley below Have turned to icicles, and Of waves striking the rocks There is no sound, at all. |
Morotoki
Icicles
つららゐてまもる岩まの関なればよをへてかたく成りまさるかな
| tsurara ite mamoru iwama no seki nareba yo o hete kataku narimasaru kana | Icicles hang Warding the space between the rocks, and Forming a barrier, so As the night goes by their hardness Grows even greater! |
Toshiyori
Icicles
浪かくる岩まひまなくたるひして氷とぢたる山川の水
| nami kakuru iwama himanaku taruhishite kōri tojitaru yamakawa no mizu | Waves hang from Every single space between the rocks In icicles— Sealed in ice is The water of this mountain stream. |
Akisue
Mandarin Ducks 鴛鴦
をし鳥もくぐる岩ねのうす氷今朝やうは毛にとぢかさぬらん
| oshidori mo kuguru iwane no usukōri kesa ya uwage ni tojikasanuran | The mandarins do Dive beneath the ice-film Round the rocks; I wonder, will their down this morning Be clogged with crystal layers? |
Toshiyori
From the beach at Ajiro in Ise.
磯に咲く網代の小菊汐間は玉とぞ求めむ波の下草
| iso ni saku aziro no wogiku shiFokaFi Fa tama to zo tomemu nami no sitagusa |
Blooming on the rocks Ajiro’s tiny chrysanths Between the tides are Gems that I would seek, Weeds beneath the waves… |
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妹が門入り泉川の常滑にみ雪残れりいまだ冬かも
| imo ga kado iri idumigapa no tokoname ni miyuki nokoreri imada puyu kamo |
My darling’s door I enter; upon Izumi River’s Rocks Remains the snow, As does winter yet… |
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro Collection
柿本人麻呂歌集
Cicadas (蟬)
山川の岩こす波にうちそへて谷 ひびくなりせみのもろごゑ
| yamakawa no iwa kosu nami ni uchisoete tani hibiku nari semi no morogoe | Mountain torrents Cross the rocks in waves Along with The echoes in the valley From the swarming cicadas’ songs. |
Akinaka
[One of] five poems composed when dropping anchor at Nagadojima in Aki province.
石走る瀧もとどろに鳴く蝉の声をし聞けば都し思ほゆ
| ipabasiru taki mo todoro ni naku semi no kowe o si kikeba miyako si omopoyu |
Running o’er the rocks Cataracts resound – When the singing cicadas Song I hear The capital comes to my thoughts. |
Ōishi no Minomaro
大石蓑麻呂
Left (Tie).
象潟や妹戀ひしらにさ寢る夜の磯の寢覺に月傾きぬ
| kisakata ya koishirani sanuru yo no iso no nezame ni tsuki katabukinu |
In Kisakata and In love; I sleep the night away, and Awaking on the rocky shore Behold the moon descending. |
Kenshō
897
Right.
清見潟岩敷く袖の浪の上に思ふもわびし君が面影
| kiyomigata iwa shiku sode no nami no ue ni omou mo wabishi kimi ga omokage |
At Kiyomigata Sleeves spread atop the rocks, Waves breaking atop them; Heart filled with pain At the memory of your face… |
Jakuren
898
Left and Right both state that the opposing poem is pretentious.
In judgement: the Left’s poem seems well-constructed in its initial and final sections. However, as in Mototoshi’s poem long ago, ‘breaking a stem of miscanthus on the beach at Ise’, this seems to be a case of poetic allusion. The Right’s ‘Sleeves spread atop the rocks, waves breaking atop them’ (iwa shiku sode no nami no ue) seems to have been newly composed and seems elegant, but the final section is somewhat inferior. The Left has beginning and end matching. The Right has a superior initial section, but an inferior final one. Thus, the round ties.