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- Sankashu
Irinu to ya azuma ni hito wa oshimuran miyako ni izuru yama no ha no tsuki
Do the people in the eastern provinces grieve, thinking it has already set, for the moon that is now rising over the mountain rim here in the capital?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Machiidete kuma naki yoi no tsuki mireba kumo zo kokoro ni mazu kakarikeru
When I look at the flawless evening moon I waited so long to see rise, the clouds are the first thing to hang over my heart.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Akikaze ya amatsu kumoi o harauran fukeyuku mama ni tsuki no sayakeki
Is the autumn wind sweeping the clouds from the heavens? As the night grows late, the moon shines ever more clear.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Izuku tote aware narazu wa nakeredomo aretaru yado zo tsuki wa sabishiki
There is no place where the moon is not moving, wherever it may be, yet it is in a ruined dwelling that the moon looks loneliest.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yomogi wakete aretaru niwa no tsuki mireba mukashi sumiken hito zo koishiki
When I push my way through the mugwort and look at the moon over the ruined garden, I long for those who must have lived here long ago.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Mi ni shimite aware shirasuru kaze yori mo tsuki ni zo aki no iro wa arikeru
More than the wind that pierces me and makes me feel the sadness of things, it is the moon, I find, that holds the true color of autumn.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Mushi no ne ni kareyuku nobe no kusamura ni aware o soete sumeru tsukikage
Amid the insects' cries, on the withering clumps of grass across the moor, the moonlight shines clear, adding yet more to the sadness of things.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hito mo minu yoshi naki yama no sue made ni sumuran tsuki no kage o koso omoe
I think of the moon's light shining clear even to the far reaches of nameless mountains where no one is there to see it.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ko no ma moru ariake no tsuki o nagamureba sabishisa souru mine no matsukaze
As I gaze at the dawn moon glimmering through the trees, the wind in the pines on the peak adds to my loneliness.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ika ni sen kage o ba sode ni yadosedomo kokoro no sumeba tsuki no kumoru o
What am I to do? I lodge the moon's light in my tear-wet sleeves, yet the clearer my heart grows, the more the moon there is clouded.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kuyashiku mo shizu no fuseya to otoshimete tsuki no moru o mo shirade sugikeru
To my regret, I looked down on it as the low hut of a humble man and went on by, never knowing how the moonlight leaked in there.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Aware naru kusa no iori ni moru tsuki o sode ni utsushite nagametsuru kana
The moonlight leaking into my grass hut, so full of quiet feeling, I let shine in my sleeves and gazed upon it, lost in thought.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuki o mite kokoro ukareshi inishie no aki ni mo sara ni meguriainuru
I have come round again to an autumn like those of long ago, when the sight of the moon set my heart wandering.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nanigoto mo kawari nomi yuku yo no naka ni onaji kage nite sumeru tsuki kana
In this world where everything does nothing but change, the moon shines clear with the very same light as ever.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yomosugara tsuki koso sode ni yadorikere mukashi no aki o omoiizureba
All night long it was the moon that dwelt upon my sleeves, for I kept recalling the autumns of the past.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nagamureba hoka no kage koso yukashikere kawaraji mono o aki no yo no tsuki
As I gaze at it, I long to see how its light looks in other places, though surely it would be no different, the moon of the autumn night.
Sankashu - Saigyō