Sōshi Arai / Sōshi Arai Komachi : PhotoStory

In the middle of the fourth month, a poetry-writing contest has started at Seiryō Hall.

Ki no Tsurayuki recites the poem of Ono no Komachi. The emperor praises it.

Komachi's opponent, Ōtomo no Kuronushi, says that Komachi's poem is plagiarism from Man’yō-shū (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves). He shows the book as evidence.

Accused and denounced, Komachi finds suspicious points in the ink added to the page.

Through Tsurayuki, she offers to wash the page for the emperor.

When the page is washed, the poem added by Kuronushi from eavesdropping on Komachi disappears.

Komachi rejoices and shows the emperor the washed page, revealing the wickedness of Kuronushi.

Both Komachi and the emperor forgive Kuronushi. In a happy atmosphere of reconciliation, Komachi changes into a dance costume.

Komachi begins to dance, evoking the rising haze of spring.

Living to honor the path of waka poetry, she dances.