Left.
名に立てる老蘇の杜の下草も年若しとや二葉なるらん
na ni tateru
By repute,
Lord Suetsune
41
Right (Win).
霜置きし去年の枯葉の殘るませにそれとも見えぬ春の若草
shimo okishi
Frost fell
Nobusada
42
The Right team have nothing to say about the Left’s poem in this round, while the Left merely wonder whether the fact that the Right’s poem has six syllables in its middle line means that it doesn’t scan correctly.
Shunzei comments testily that fashionably using expressions with contradictory connotations, such as the ‘ancient sacred grove’ and ‘year’s youth’ is ‘platitudinous’. The Right’s poem, however, is ‘without doubt, extremely affecting’. There are many cases where lines with six or seven syllables are used in place of a five syllable one in the centre of a poem – particularly when the final line is ‘independent’, although this has yet to be ‘well understood’. So, for appropriately using this, the right deserves the victory.
Left (Tie).
あらし吹月の主は我ひとり花こそ宿と人も尋ぬれ
arashi fukuaruji wa
As the wild wind blows,
181
Right (Tie).
うきよりは住みよかりけりと計よ跡なき霜に杉たてる庭
uki yori wasumi yokarikeri
The cruelties of the world
182
Left.
かれぬるはさぞなためしとながめてもなぐさまなくに霜の下草
karenuru wa
All is shriveled up, and
141
Right (Win).
秋の色にさてもかれなで蘆邊こぐ棚ゝし小舟我ぞつれなき
aki no iro ni
Tired with the hues of autumn,
142
Left.
やどりせしかりほの萩の露ばかり消えなで袖の色に戀つゝ
yadoriseshi
Lodged
137
Right (Win).
ちぎりおきし末のはら野ゝもと柏それともしらじよその霜枯
chigiri okishi
Eternally we vowed:
138
Left (Tie).
今のまの我身にかぎる鳥のねを誰うきものと歸りそめけん
ima no ma no
At this time
121
Right
忘れずはなれし袖もや氷覧ねぬ夜の床の霜の小莚
wasurezu wa
If she has forgot-me-not,
122
Left.
神無月くれやすき日の色なれば霜の下葉に風もたまらず
kaminazuki
In the Godless Month
83
Right (Win)
花すゝき草のたもとも朽はてぬ馴てわかれし秋をこふとて
hana susuki noThe miscanthus blooms,
84
Left (Tie).
冬きては一夜二夜を玉ざゝの葉分の霜の所せきまで
fuyu kite wa
Winter has been here
81
Right
晴曇おなじながめのたのみだに時雨にたゆる遠の里人
harekumoru
The clear sky clouding over,
82
Left.
あさなあさなあへず散りしく葛の葉に置そふ霜の秋ぞすくなき
asana asana
Morning after morning
77
Right (Win)
秋はいぬ夕日がくれの峰の松四方の木の葉の後もあひ見ん
aki wa inu
Autumn is now gone;
78
Topic unknown.
さを鹿のつまどふ山の崗べなるわさ田はからじ霜はをくとも
sawosika no
The stags for
Hitomaro
Left (Win).
高砂の外にも秋は有るものを我ゆふぐれと鹿はなくなり
takasago no
In Takasago
67
Right
思ひあへず秋ないそぎそ小男鹿のつまどふ山の小田の初霜
omoiaezusaoshika no no
How unexpected:
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