Warblers
Round One
Left (Tie)
鶯のなく木の本にふる雪はは風に花のちるかとぞみる
| uguisu no naku ki no moto ni furu yuki wa hakaze ni hana no chiru ka to zo miru | The warbler Sings from in a tree, its roots Covered by falling snow; Breeze stirred by its wingbeats, blossom Does seem to scatter. |
Lord Kiyosuke
1
Right
うぐひすのなきて木づたふ梅がえにこぼるる露や涙なるらん
| uguisu no nakite kozutau ume ga e ni koboruru tsuyu ya namida naruran | The warbler Crying flits from Branch to plum branch; Has the dripping dew His tears, perhaps, become? |
Shun’e
2
Both Left and Right proceed smoothly, but what are we to make of the line ‘Crying flits’ in the Right’s poem? As this is also an expression which implies that dew is falling, these should tie.
比日之 暁露丹 吾屋前之 芽子乃下葉者 色付尓家里
このころのあかときつゆにわがやどのはぎのしたばはいろづきにけり
| kono koro no akatoki tuyu ni wa ga yado no pagi no sitaba pa irodukinikeri | Around thus time near Dawn, the dewfall on My dwelling’s Bush clover underleaves Has changed their hue! |
Anonymous
On the conception of forgotten love.
袖の露もあらぬ色にぞ消えかへるうつればかはるなげきせしまに
| sode no tsuyu mo aranu iro ni zo kiekaeru utsureba kawaru nagekiseshi ma ni | The dewdrops on my sleeves now Lack any hue at all Fading once more, Revealing the change To my lengthy sorrow…[1] |
The Senior Retired Emperor
[1] An allusive variation on: KKS II: 113; and Genji monogatari 463.
From among his autumn poems.
秋の露やたもとにいたくむすぶらんながき夜あかずやどる月影
| aki no tsuyu ya tamoto ni itaku musuburan nagaki yo akazu yadoru tsukikage | Is it the autumn dewfall that Upon my sleeves so heavily Lies? This long night unending is The moonlight’s lodging… |
The Senior Retired Emperor
