Round Two
Left
鶯は春をしりてもなきぬなる我が身は春をしらでこそなけ
uguisu wa haru o shiritemo nakinunaru wa ga mi wa haru o shirade koso nake The warbler
Masashige
Right (Win)
杣人よをののおとしばしとどめなん谷の鶯はつねなくなり
somabito yo ono no oto shibashi todomenan tani no uguisu hatsune nakunari O, woodcutter,
Kenshō
The Left’s poem, too, is smooth; the Right poem’s diction is halting, but its conception does not sound bad. It should win, I’d say.
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 The warbler
Lord Kiyosuke
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 The warbler
Shun’e
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.
On blossom.
鶯之 徃来垣根乃 宇能花之 猒事有哉 君之不来座
うぐひすのかよふかきねのうのはなのうきことあれやきみがきまさぬ
ugupisu no The warbler
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On a place where plum blossom blooms.
わがやどの梅のはつはなさきにけりまつうぐひすはなどかきなかぬ
wa ga yado no ume no hatsuhana sakinikeri matsu uguisu wa nado ka kinakanu My dwelling’s
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Composed on plum blossom.
鶯はいたくなわびそ梅のはなことしのみちるならひならねば
uguisu wa itaku na wabi so ume no hana kotoshi no michiru narai naraneba O, warbler,
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A warbler after the rain.
春雨の露もまだひず梅がえにうは毛しをれて鶯ぞなく
harusame no tsuyu mo mada hizu mume ga e ni uwage shiorete uguisu zo naku The spring shower’s
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A warbler between the blossom.
春くれば先さくやどのむめのはなかをなつかしみうぐひすぞ鳴く
haru kureba mazu saku yado no mume no hana ka o natsukashimi uguisu zo naku When the spring has come,
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Warblers
草ふかき霞の谷にはぐくもるうぐひすのみやむかしこふらし
kusa fukaki kasumi no tani ni hagukumoru uguisu nomi ya mukashi kourashi Deep within the grasses of
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Warblers
ふかくさの谷のうぐひす春ごとにあはれむかしと音をのみぞなく
fukakusa no tani no uguisu haru goto ni awaremu kashi to ne o nomi zo naku In Fukakusa’s grass-filled
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On seeing snow at the beginning of spring.
かきくらし猶ふる雪のさむければ春ともしらぬ谷のうぐひす
kakikurashi nao furu yuki no samukereba haru tomo shiranu tani no uguisu Raking in the darkness,
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