Left (Tie)
我恋はしげきみ山の山人のさすがにえしもこりはてぬ哉
| wa ga koi wa shigeki miyama no yamabito no sasuga ni e shimo korihatenu kana | My love is Lush as a tree in the mountains’ heart; The mountain men with Their hatchets cannot even Begin to fell it! |
Ari’ie
1185
Right
秋かけてつま木こり積む山人ももゆる思の程は知らじな
| aki kakete tsumagi koritsumu yamabito mo moyuru omoi no hodo wa shiraji na | Into autumn Gathering piles of kindling Even a mountain man, The burning fires of my passion Can hardly know… |
Jakuren
1186
The Right state: in the Left’s poem, ‘hatchets’ (sasuga) fails to match properly. The Left state: the Right’s poem lacks faults to indicate.
In judgement: indeed, in the Left’s poem ‘hatchets’ does not sound like it matches properly. The Right’s poem has the initial ‘into autumn’ (aki kakete), but the conception of autumn does not sound necessary here. They are of the same quality.
Left (Win)
うら山し賤も妻木を立てつめりいつ休むべき恋にかあるらん
| urayamashi shizu mo tsumagi o tatetsumeri itsu yasumubeki koi ni ka aruran | How I envy The mountain man who kindling Has gathered all together! When, though, will I find respite From love? |
Lord Suetsune
1179
Right
思ひ出るかひもなければ山人はあはぬつま木にこりやしぬらん
| omoi’izuru kai mo nakereba yamabito wa awanu tsumagi ni kori ya shinuran | Remembering Deeply serves no point, but A mountain man I am not – unable to meet her – kindling Should I be cutting? |
Lord Tsune’ie
1180
Left and Right together state: we find no faults to indicate.
In judgement: although I wonder the extent to which the Left’s ‘how I envy’ (urayamashi) a mountain man resting is accurate, I also wonder whether this sort of back and forth upon the path is something which commonly appears, so the poem does not seem uninteresting. The Right’s ‘remembering deeply serves no point’ (omoi’izuru kai mo nakereba) does not sound particularly out of the ordinary. The Left wins somehow.