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Entō ōn’uta’awase 12

Round Twelve

Left

うつり行く花の下道跡もなしながめも白き春の山風

utsuriyuku
hana no shita michi
ato mo nashi
nagame mo shiroki
haru no yamakaze
The shifting
Blossom on the paths beneath
Leaves no footprints there;
My gaze with whiteness filled
By spring’s breezes in the mountains.

Dōchin
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Right (Win)

身にかへておもふもくるし桜花さかぬみ山に宿もとめてん

mi ni kaete
omou mo kurushi
sakurabana
sakanu miyama ni
yado mo tometen
It should be me instead,
I think, but even that brings pain;
Where cherry blossoms
Fail to bloom, deep within the mountains
Should I make my home.

Dharma Master Nyokan
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The Left’s poem does not sound poor, but has ‘gaze with whiteness’—a long time ago, Lay Priest Toshinari repeatedly said that it is not appropriate to compose about looking at something specific using ‘gaze’. The initial and concluding section of the Right’s poem sound fine—it should win.

SCSS II: 82

Composed on a day during the reign of former Emperor Horikawa when the ladies of the court went to visit the blossom in the Eastern hills.

たちかへりまたやとはまし山かぜに花ちる里の人のこころを

tachikaeri
mata ya towamashi
yamakaze ni
hana chiru sato no
hito no kokoro o
Rising and returning
Only to once more pay a curious call:
The breeze from off the mountains
Scattering blossom round the estate
Where lies my lady’s heart…

Supernumerary Middle Counsellor Morotoki

SZS I: 46

Composed on the conception of visiting distant blossom in the mountains, on a day when he was due to return after paying a visit to the residence of the regent.

たづねつる花のあたりになりにけりにほふにしるしはるの山かぜ

tazuneturu
Fana no atari ni
narinikeri
nioFu ni sirusi Fa
Faru no yamakaze
I have paid a visit to
A place of blossom
Here;
Of their scent a sign is carried
On the spring mountain breezes.

Former Emperor Sutoku

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

SCSS IV: 267

On the moon at a mountain retreat, for a Fifty Poem Sequence at the residence of the Lay Priest Prince of the Second Order.

松のとをおしあけ方の山かぜに雲もかからぬ月を見るかな

matsu no to o
oshiakegata no
yamakaze ni
kumo mo kakaranu
tsuki o miru kana
Upon my pinewood door
Pushes at the break of dawn
A breeze from off the mountains, so
Unencumbered by the clouds
Do I see the moon!

Ietaka, Senior Third Rank

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

Kinkai wakashū 34

After I had had various people compose on the scent of plum carried on the breeze.

梅がかをゆめの枕にさそひきてさむるまちける春の山風

ume ga ka o
yume no makura ni
sasoikite
samuru machikeru
haru no yamakaze
The scent of plum
To my pillow, where I lay dreaming
Was beckoned—
Waiting ‘til I awakened did
The mountain breeze in springtime.
Created with Soan.

Kanpyō no ōntoki chūgū uta’awase 3

Round Three

Left

氷とくはるたちくらしみよしののよしののたきのこゑまさるなり

kōri toku
haru tachikurashi
miyoshino no
yoshino no taki no
koe masarunari
Ice melting
Spring has come on scene, it seems;
In fair Yoshino,
Yoshino Falls’
Roar is fine, indeed!

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Right (Win)

はなの色はかすみにこめてみえずともかをだにぬすめ春の山風

hana no iro wa
kasumi ni komete
miezu tomo
ka o dani nusume
haru no yamakaze
The blossoms’ hues
Have blended with the haze, so
I see them not, yet
Their very scent is plundered by
Spring’s breezes from the mountains.

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