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- Shui Wakashu
Higurashi ni miredomo akanu ominaeshi nobe ni ya koyoi tabine shinamashi
I have gazed all day and still cannot tire of the maidenflowers. Shall I spend tonight here on the fields, sleeping like a traveler?
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagato
Ogi no ha mo yaya uchisoyogu hodo naru o nado karigane no oto nakaruran
The reed leaves have begun, little by little, to rustle in the wind, so why are the cries of the geese still not heard?
Shui Wakashu - Egyō
Kari ni tote kubekarikeri ya aki no no no hana miru hodo ni hi mo kurenubeshi
Was it right to come here only for the hunt, meaning to stay but briefly? While I gaze at the flowers of the autumn fields, the day is sure to end.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Aki no no no hana no nadate ni ominaeshi kari ni nomi kon hito ni oraru na
For the sake of the good name of the autumn flowers, maidenflower, do not let yourself be plucked by someone who comes only lightly, on a hunt.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kari ni tote ware wa kitsuredo ominaeshi miru ni kokoro zo omoitsukinuru
I came only briefly, for the hunt, yet when I see the maidenflowers my heart is wholly drawn to them.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Kari ni nomi hito no miyureba ominaeshi hana no tamoto zo tsuyukekarikeru
Because people come only briefly, on the hunt, the sleeves of the maidenflower's blossoms are wet with dew like tears.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Uetatete kimi ga shime yū hana nareba tama to miete ya tsuyu mo okuran
These are flowers you planted and roped off as your own, so does even the dew settle on them so as to appear like jewels?
Shui Wakashu - Ise
Kode sugusu aki wa nakeredo hatsukari no kiku tabi goto ni mezurashiki kana
There is never an autumn that passes without the geese coming, yet every time I hear the first geese, they seem fresh and wonderful.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ausaka no seki no iwakado fuminarashi yama tachiizuru kirihara no koma
Stamping on the rocky corners at the Ausaka Barrier, the horses of the Kirihara pasture come out from the hills.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Takato
Ausaka no seki no shimizu ni kage miete ima ya hikuran mochizuki no koma
Their forms mirrored in the clear spring at the Ausaka Barrier, are the horses of Mochizuki, under the full moon, being led along just now?
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Mizu no omo ni teru tsukinami o kazoureba koyoi zo aki no monaka narikeru
Counting the months as I watch the moonlit waves shining on the water, I find that tonight is the very middle of autumn.
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Shitagō
Aki no tsuki nami no soko ni zo idenikeru matsuran yama no kai ya nakaran
The autumn moon has risen from the bottom of the waves. The gorges of the hills that wait for it must find their waiting in vain.
Shui Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Aki no tsuki nishi ni aru ka to mietsuru wa fukeyuku yowa no kage ni zo arikeru
The autumn moon I thought had already sunk into the west turned out to be the moon's reflection in the deepening night.
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Kageakira
Akazu nomi omohoemu o ba ikaga sen kaku koso wa mime aki no yo no tsuki
What am I to do when I feel I can never have enough of it? I will simply keep gazing like this at the moon of the autumn night.
Shui Wakashu - Kiyohara no Motosuke
Koko ni dani hikari sayakeki aki no tsuki kumo no ue koso omoiyararure
Even here the autumn moon shines so clear and bright; how much more, I cannot help imagining, above the clouds, in the palace.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsuneomi
Izuko ni ka koyoi no tsuki no miezaran akanu wa hito no kokoro narikeri
Where could tonight's moon not be seen? It shines everywhere. What never has its fill is the human heart.
Shui Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune