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Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 13

Left (Tie)

おとぎきにあやなく人をこひそめてそれとだにみぬことのわびしさ

otogiki ni
ayanaku hito o
koisomete
sore to dani minu
koto no wabishisa
By repute
Pointlessly, a lady
Have I begun to love,
Without even seeing her,
That is truly pitiable!

25

Right

やまびこのおとにのみきくきみなればわれよりさきにとふ人もなし

yamabiko no
oto ni nomi kiku
kimi nareba
ware yori saki ni
tou hito mo nashi
As a mountain spirit
Word is all I hear
Of you, so
Before me
Not a man will visit you!

26

Love VI: 15

Left.
心あひの風いづかたへ吹かぬらん我には散らす言の葉もなし

kokoro ai no
kaze izukata e
fukanuran
ware ni wa chirasu
koto no ha mo nashi
This pleasant
Breeze: whither
Does it blow?
To me not one scattered
Leaf or word has it delivered.

Kenshō.
929

Right (Win).
色に出し言の葉もみなかれはてゝ涙を散らす風の音哉

iro ni idashi
koto no ha mo mina
karehatete
namida o chirasu
kaze no oto kana
The bright hues of passion
In these leaves and your words
Have all withered away;
Tears scattering with
The sound of the wind…

Lord Takanobu.
930

The Right state: ‘Breeze: whither’ (kaze izukata e) seems lacking. The Left state: the Right’s poem has no faults to indicate.

In judgement: in the Left’s poem, I wonder whether ‘breeze: wither’ really is lacking. ‘This pleasant’ (kokoro no ai) would seem to be an expression deriving from ‘At the head of the road’. I seem to recall it coming after ‘In Kofu in Takefu / Will I be’, but that is not a suitable source. The Right’s poem, as the Gentlemen of the Left have said, appears to have no faults. It should win.

KYS VIII: 449

Sent to a man with whom she had conversed, when she had heard nothing from him for a long time.

萱葺きのこや忘らるるつまならむ久しく人の音づれもせぬ

kayabuki no
koya wasuraruru
tuma naramu
Fisasiku Fito no
wotodure mo senu
Is silver-grass the thatch for
The ancient hut where a forgotten
Wife does dwell?
Long has it been
With no word from you…

Hizen, from the household of the Former Ise Virgin
前斎宮肥前