Left (Win)

はるがすみたちしかくせばやまざくらひとしれずこそちりぬべらなれ

harugasumi tachishi kakuseba yamazakura hito shirezu koso chirinuberanare

If the spring haze Has risen to conceal The mountain cherries, Then, indeed, will no one know When they have seemed to scatter!

Tsurayuki
9

Right

たのまれぬはなのこころとおもへばやちらぬさきよりうぐひすのなく

tanomarenu hana no kokoro to omoeba ya chiranu saki yori uguisu no naku

Untrustworthy are The blossoms’ hearts I do think, so While they are unscattered Will the warbler sing.

Okikaze
10[i]

Both of these are the same—they tie.[ii]

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[i] This poem is included in Shinshūishū (XI: 1549), attributed to Okikaze, with the headnote, ‘From Former Emperor Uda’s Poetry Contest’. It is also included twice in Kokin rokujō (I: 31) and (VI: 4395): in both cases the poem is attributed to Okikaze, but the first instance lacks a headnote, while the second is classified as a ‘Warbler’ poem. Finally, it is also included in Mandaishū (II: 254), again attributed to Okikaze, but this time with the headnote, ‘Topic unknown’.

[ii] Given that the Left’s poem here is marked as winning, presumably Uda means that both poems are equally worthy of a win—that is, that this is a yoki ji, a ‘tie of quality’.