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きえぬべき露のうき身の置所いづれの野べの草葉なるらん
| kienubeki tsuyu no ukimi no okidokoro izure no nobe no kusaba naruran | Surely to vanish As the dewdrops is my pitiful lot, and The place I fall Will be in some meadow Among the blades of grass, no doubt… |
Inpumon’in no Taiyu
Sent to a cruel woman.
いかばかり人のつらさをうらみましうき身のとがとおもひなさずは
| ika bakari Fito no turasa wo uramimasi ukimi no toga to omoFinasazu Fa | How much Your cruelty I might despise, if My wretched lot I did not think to be at fault… |
Kamo no Narisuke
Left
あかずして君を恋ひつる涙にぞうきみしづみみやせわたりける
| akazushite kimi o koitsuru namida ni zo ukimi shizumimi yasewatarikeru | An endless hunger is My love for you; In tears does My flesh float and sink As it grows ever thinner. |
170
Right
かしまなるつくまの神のつくづくと我が身ひとつに恋をつみつる
| kashima naru tsukuma no kami no tsukuzuku to wa ga mi hitotsu ni koi o tsumikeru | In Kashima Does the God of Tsukuma Constantly Upon my flesh, alone, Lay the burdens of love? |
171
Left (Tie)
憂き身ゆへよがるる床のさむしろはしき忍び忍びてもかひやなからむ
| ukimi yue yogaruru toko no samushiro wa shikishinobitemo kai ya nakaramu | My cruelty was it that Kept him from my bed these many nights; My blanket: Should I spread it and think of him alone, Would that have no effect at all? |
Lord Kanemune
1133
Right
恋わびぬむなしき床のさむしろに幾夜いくたび寝覚しつらん
| koiwabinu munashiki toko no samushiro ni ikuyo ikutabi nezameshitsuran | Sick am I of love – In an empty bed’s Blankets How many nights, how many times, Must I awake? |
Nobusada
1134
Both Left and Right together state: we find no faults to mention.
In judgement: both of the ‘blankets’ (samushiro) of the Left and Right here seem elegant. The configuration of the Left’s ‘my cruelty was it that kept him from my bed these many nights; my blanket’ (ukimi yue yogaruru toko no samushiro) and the conception of the Right’s ‘sick am I of love – in an empty bed’s’ (koiwabinu munashiki toko no) are such that I find both difficult to put down. I must make the round a tie.