Left
こひしきにねざめてみをぞうきなみのよるぞかなしきそでのひつまで
| koishiki ni nezamete mi o zo ukinami no yoru zo kanashiki sode no hitsu made | Filled with love I do awake, but Waves of depression drift, Breaking the night with sadness Until my sleeves are drenched through… |
17
Right
うつつにもゆめにもみえずなりぬればさむるよなよなねをのみぞなく
| utsutsu ni mo yume ni mo miezu narinureba samuru yonayona ne o nomi zo naku | In both reality, and Dreams I see her not— When it comes to that, then On waking night after night Will I simply weep! |
18
On the same conception, when the Lay Priest and Former Chancellor had ten poem sequences composed at his residence.
いまよりの涙のはてよいかならん恋ひそむるだに袖はぬれけり
| ima yori no namida no hateyo ika naran koisomuru dani sode wa nurekeri | From this moment Cease, my tears! What has occurred? Why, love’s first tint is all That wets my sleeves. |
Former Major Counsellor Tame’uji
Sent in a letter when one of the lads who was an acolyte of his departed for a distant province, accompanying his father.
わかれぢの草葉をわけむ旅ごろもたつよりかねてぬるるそでかな
| wakaredi no kusaba wo wakemu tabigoromo tatu yori kanete nururu sode kana | Along the path that parts us, Forging through the leafy grasses In your traveller’s garb Since you have left, and before How soaked are my sleeves! |
Dharma Master Yūzen
Round Seven
Left
恋せじとおもひなるせによる浪のかへりてそれもくるしかりけり
| koiseji to omoinaru se ni yoru nami no kaerite sore mo kurushikarikeri | I’ll love you no more, Did I come to think, the crash of Breaking waves Returning, but that, too Has brought me pain. |
Lord Kanemasa
61
Right (Both Judges – Win)
玉藻かる忍ぶの浦の蜑だにもいとかく袖はぬるるものかは
| tamamo karu shinobu no ura no ama dani mo ito kaku sode wa nururu mono ka wa | Reaping gemweed On Shinobu shore, Do even the fisherfolk Have sleeves so very Drenched, indeed? |
Lord Masamitsu
62
Toshiyori states: both of these are charming, however, a line from a famous poem is used for as the initial section, and in such cases the new poem should not closely evoke the source. Someone once said something similar, a long time ago. It’s a bit inferior, isn’t it.
Mototoshi states: neither of these contain any errors, yet the section following the central ‘crash of / Breaking waves’ seems intermittently painful, with sleeves damper than those of the fisherfolk on Shinobu shore. It seems a bit better at present.
Round Six
Left (T – Tie)
うかりける汀におふるうきぬ縄くることなくていくよ経ぬらん
| ukarikeru migiwa ni ouru uki nunawa kuru koto nakute ikuyo henuran | Downcast, By the water’s edge a’growing, Drifting, a water-shield am I— Since he has ceased to come, How much time has passed? |
Lady Shōshō
59
Right (M – Win)
夜とともに袖のみぬれて衣川こひこそわたれ逢瀬なければ
| yo to tomo ni sode nomi nurete koromogawa koi koso watare ause nakereba | With the coming of night My sleeves are simply soaked— The River Robe Goes on does my love, Though meetings are there not… |
Lady Shinano
60
Toshiyori states: neither Left nor Right appears to have any faults. They are, as expected, somewhat trite, so I would say they are equivalent.
Mototoshi says: both of these poems seem pleasant. ‘Love going on without a meeting’ is particularly charming.
