Left (Win).
梓弓はるの雲居にひゞくまで鞆音にかよふ的の音かな
| azusa yumi haru no kumoi ni hibiku made tomone ni kayou mato no oto kana |
Catalpa bows In springtime round the cloud-borne palace Resound; Bowstring on bracer and Arrow on target – what a sound! |
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Right.
梓弓まうけの箭にやひかるらんはてまでけふは當りぬる哉
| azusa yumi môke no ya ni ya hikaruran hate made kyô wa atarinuru kana |
Catalpa bows’ Spare arrows: will they Be drawn, I wonder? By this day’s end All will have struck the target… |
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The Right team have no comments to make about the Left’s poem, but the Left state that the initial section of the Right’s poem is ‘prosaic [heikai]’. Shunzei agrees, saying that the term ‘spare arrows’ is ‘unsuitable diction for poetry’ [uta kotoba ni yoroshikarazaru] and so the Left’s poem must be adjudged the winner.