Left (Tie)

はなみつつをしむかひなくけふくれてほかのはるとやあすはなりなむ

hana mitsutsu oshimu kainaku kyō kurete hoka no haru to ya asu wa narinamu

Ever do I gaze upon the blossom, in Vain regret, for Today will end and A different spring will Greet me on the morrow!

Mitsune
39

Right

けふのみとはるをおもはぬときだにもたつことやすきはなのかげかは

kyō nomi to haru o omowanu toki dani mo tatsu koto ya suki hana no kage ka wa

“Only today is left Of spring”—I’ll not think that for Even at such a time, Is it easy to part from The blossoms’ shade?

Mitsune
40[i]

‘Both of these are charming,’—they tied.

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[i] This poem is included as the final spring poem in Kokinshū (II: 134), attributed to Mitsune, and with the headnote, ‘A poem on the end of spring from the Poetry Contest held by Former Emperor Uda’.