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- Kinkaishu
Sasagani no tama nuku ito no o o yowami kaze ni midarete tsuyu zo koboruru
The spider's thread, strung with dewdrops like jewels, is so weak a cord that, tangled by the wind, the dew spills away.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Koe takami hayashi ni sakebu saru yori mo ware zo mono omou aki no yūbe wa
More than the monkeys shrieking in the woods with their high voices, it is I who am lost in brooding on an autumn evening.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kurekakaru yūbe no sora o nagamureba kodakaki yama ni akikaze zo fuku
As I gaze, lost in thought, at the evening sky growing dark, the autumn wind blows over the mountains of tall trees.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Aki o hete shinobi mo kane ni mono zo omou ono no yamabe no yūgure no sora
Through autumn after autumn, I can no longer hold it in and am lost in brooding, gazing at the evening sky over the hills beside the moor.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Akita moru io ni katashiku waga sode ni kieaenu tsuyu no ikuyo okikemu
On the single sleeve I spread to sleep alone in the hut where I guard the autumn fields, for how many nights has dew that never quite fades lain?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kakute nao taeteshi araba ikaga semu yamada moru io no aki no yūgure
If I must go on enduring like this, what am I to do—in the hut that guards the mountain fields, on this autumn evening?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Nagameyaru kokoro mo taenu wata no hara yae no shioji no aki no yūgure
As I gaze far out, my heart can no longer bear it—the autumn evening over the many-layered sea-paths of the vast ocean.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Ōkata ni mono omou to shimo nakarikeri tada waga tame no aki no yūgure
It is not, after all, that everyone broods; this autumn evening is meant for me alone.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Aki narade tada ōkata no kaze no oto mo yūbe wa koto ni kanashiki mono o
Even when it is not autumn, the sound of an ordinary wind is so especially sad at evening, and yet—
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tamadare no kosu no hima moru akikaze wa imo koishira ni mi ni zo shimikeru
The autumn wind slipping in through the gaps of the beaded blinds pierces me to the bone, for I long so for my love.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Akikaze wa yaya hadasamuku narinikeri hitori ya nenamu nagaki kono yo o
The autumn wind has gradually turned chill against the skin—must I sleep alone through this long night?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Mukashi omou aki no nezame no toko no ue ni honoka ni kayou mine no akikaze
Upon my bed, awake in the autumn night and thinking of the past, I feel the autumn wind from the peaks faintly drifting in.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Suminoe no kishi no matsu fuku akikaze o tanomete nami no yoru o machikeru
Trusting in the autumn wind that blows through the pines on the shore of Suminoe, the waves have waited for the night to come rolling in.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tsuki kiyomi aki no yo itaku fukenikeri saho no kawara ni chidori shiba naku
The moon is so clear that the autumn night has grown very late, and on the riverbanks of Saho the plovers keep on crying.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Ama no hara furisakemireba tsuki kiyomi aki no yo itaku fukenikeru kana
When I lift my eyes to the heavens, the moon is so clear that the autumn night has grown very late indeed.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Ware nagara oboezu otsuru sode no tsuyu tsuki ni mono omou yogoro henureba
Though it is my own self, I hardly know how the dew falls on my sleeves—for many nights now I have brooded beneath the moon.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo