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Daikōtaigōgū daijin kiyosuke-ason ke uta’awase 28

Round Twenty-Eight

Left

わぎもこをかたまつよひの秋風はをぎのうはばをよきてふかなん

wagimoko o
kata matsu yoi no
akikaze wa
ogi no uwaba o
yokite fukanan
For my darling girl
I wait filled with longing, tonight
I would the autumn wind
The cogon grass fronds
Pass by in its blowing!

Shun’e
55

Right (Win)

朝夕におつる涙や恋草のしげみにすがる露と成るらん

asayū ni
otsuru namida ya
koigusa no
shigemi ni sugaru
tsuyu to naruran
Morn and eve
My falling tears to
Love’s grasses
Lush do cling and
Turn to dewdrops.

Atsuyori
56

The Right poem’s use of diction and expression has nothing wrong with it and is entirely appropriate.

Dairi kiku awase 03

わぎもこがひもゆふぐれのきくなればあかずぞはなのいろはみえける

wagimoko ga
hi mo yūgure no
kiku nareba
akazu zo hana no
iro wa miekeru
My darling girl
Both day and eve is
As a chrysanthemum, so
Never sated am I with this flower’s
Hues I see.

Korenori
5

きくのはなふゆののかぜにちりもせでけふまでとてやしもはおくらん

kiku no hana
fuyu no kaze ni
chiri mo sede
kyō made tote ya
shimo wa okuran
Chrysanthemum blooms
In the winter wind
Scatter not;
Is it that up to today is when
Frost is said to fall?

Korenori
6

かげさへやこよひはにほふきくのはなあまてるつきにかのそはるらん

kage sae ya
koyoi wa niou
kiku no hana
ama teru tsuki ni
ka no sowaruran
Even their shape
Fills tonight with a scented glow; Chrysanthemum blooms
To the heaven-shining moon
Seem to add their fragrance.

Korenori
7

Daikōtaigōgū daijin kiyosuke-ason ke uta’awase 07

Round Seven

Cherry

Left (Win)

からくにの虎伏すのべににほふとも花の下にはねてぞ帰らん

karakuni no
tora fusu nobe ni
niou tomo
hana no shita ni wa
nete zo kaeran
Even in the land of Cathay, where
Tigers lie among the meadows—
Should they shine there, then
Beneath the blossoms
Would I sleep and then head home.

Lord Kiyosuke
13

Right

わぎもこがはこねの山のいと桜むすびおきたる花かとぞみる

wagimoko ga
hakone no yama no
itozakura
musubiokitaru
hana ka to zo miru
As my darling’s treasured
Box is Hakone Mountain, with
Weeping cherries
Bound, or
So the blossoms do appear to me.

Kenshō

14

Neither of these are bad, but because for the moment it has a stronger conception of affection for the blossom, the Left is superior.

SCSS XIII: 788

From the Poetry Match held by the Hosshōji Lay Priest and Former Chancellor.

かつみれど猶ぞ恋しきわぎもこがゆつのつまぐしいかがささまし

katsu miredo
nao zo koishiki
wagimoko ga
yutsu no tsumagushi
ikaga sasamashi
At last did I see her, yet
All the more do I love
My darling girl, so
Should I turn her to a sacred slender comb
And wear her in my hair?

Mototoshi

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

San’i minamoto no hirotsune ason uta’awase 15

Fulling cloth late at night (深夜擣衣)

Left

わぎもこがうつ唐衣さよふけてほのかにきこゆいづこなるらん

wagimoko ga
utsu karakoromo
sayo fukete
honoka ni kikoyu
izuko naruran
My darling girl
Is fulling my Cathay robe;
As brief night breaks
Faintly I hear
The echoes from somewhere.

Ki no Sukezane
29

Right

手もたゆく成りやゆくらんさ夜ふかみ衣しでうつ音ののどけさ

ta mo tayuku
nari ya yukuran
sayo fukami
koromo shideutsu
oto no nodokesa
Is it that her hands so weary
Have become?
Late on a brief night
Fulling clothing—
How faint that sound…

Taira no Sadamoto
30

Eikyū hyakushu 461

Lacking a Glimpse of Love Letters 不見書恋

わぎもこがあふみなりせばさりと我ふみもみてましとどろきのはし

wagimoko ga
au mi nariseba
sari to ware
fumi mo mitemashi
todoroki no hashi
If my darling
Were convinced to meet,
Then, I
Would wish to see her letters, too,
Here upon the bridge at Todoroki.

Kanemasa