Left (Tie)
あふことをまつとなげきしときよりもたなばたつめはいまやわぶらむ
| au koto o matsu to nagekishi toki yori mo tanabatatsume wa ima ya waburamu | For a meeting Did she pine and grieve, But from that moment The Weaver Maid Now seems filled with lonely sadness. |
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Right
ながきよにつくすともなきたなばたのこひはそらにやもりわたるらん
| nagaki yo ni tsukusu tomo naki tanabata no koi wa sora ni ya moriwataruran | The long night through Did not exhaust at all The Weaver Maid’s Love into the skies Seems to overflow. |
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Among the courtiers in service to His Majesty, former Emperor Uda, it was possible to pick out those who had some sensitivity and those who did not, so in a certain year, when the kōshin rite came around on the 7th day of the Seventh Month, those gentlemen who were thought to have this sensitivity spent the day composing poems on the topic of ‘feelings after meeting at Tanabata’ which were divided into teams and matched.
Left
としごとにこりずやあるらんたなばたのあひてこひしきわかれのみする
| toshigoto ni korizu ya aruran tanabata no aite koishiki wakare nomi suru | Every single year Does she never learn, I wonder? The Weaver Maid Meets and then with love Does simply part. |
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Right (Win)
おもひやる心のそらにしらるればたなばたつめのわかれかなしな
| omoiyaru kokoro no sora ni shirarureba tanabatatsume no wakare kanashiki | Yearning fills The heavens of her heart— How well she knows it, for The Weaver Maid’s Parting is so sad. |
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