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Tōin senzai awase 03

Left – Dwarf bamboo[i]

たまとのみつゆのみゆるはささがにのいとををにしてぬけばなりけり

tama to nomi
tsuyu no miyuru wa
sasagani no
ito o o ni shite
nukeba narikeri
Simply as jewels
Do the dewdrops seem, when
Making the tiny crab—the spider’s
Web their thread,
They are strung upon it…

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Right

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[i] The topic of this poem is given as ‘Dew’ (Tsuyu 露) in the other text of the match, although the poem is identical. ‘Spider’ (sasgani) contains sasa (‘dwarf bamboo’)/