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- Sankashu
Yukue naku tsuki ni kokoro no sumisumite hate wa ika ni ka naran to suran
Without end, my heart grows clearer and clearer in the moonlight; what, I wonder, will it become in the end?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsukikage no katabuku yama o nagametsutsu oshimu shirushi ya ariake no sora
I went on gazing at the hills toward which the moon was sinking; did my reluctance to let it go have some effect? It lingers still in the sky at dawn.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nagamuru mo makotoshikaranu kokochi shite yo ni amaritaru tsuki no kage kana
Even as I gaze at it, it hardly seems real; it is a light too great for this world to hold, this moonlight.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yukusue no tsuki o ba shirazu sugikitsuru aki mata kakaru kage wa nakariki
I cannot know what moons the years ahead may bring, but in all the autumns I have lived through, there has never yet been light like this.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Makoto tomo tare ka omowan hitori mite nochi ni koyoi no tsuki o kataraba
Who would believe it true if, having watched it all alone, I were to tell others later of tonight's moon?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuki no tame hiru to omou ga kai naki ni shibashi kumorite yoru o shirase yo
Since because of you it seems like day, and that would rob the night of its worth, cloud over for a while and let me know that it is night.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ama no hara Asahiyama yori izureba ya tsuki no hikari no hiru ni magaemite
Is it because it rose from Asahi Hill, the Hill of the Morning Sun, in the wide heavens, that the moonlight seems to me so like the light of day?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ariake no tsuki no koro ni shi narinureba aki wa yoru naki kokochi koso sure
Now that it is the season when the moon lingers into dawn, autumn seems to me to have no night at all.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nakanaka ni tokidoki kumo no kakaru koso tsuki o motenasu kazari narikere
On the contrary, it is the clouds that now and then drift across it that serve as an ornament to set off the moon.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kumo haruru arashi no oto wa matsu ni are ya tsuki mo midori no iro ni haetsutsu
Does the sound of the storm that has swept the clouds away dwell in the pines? Even the moon shines on, glowing with the green of their needles.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Sadame naku tori ya nakuran aki no yo no tsuki no hikari o omoimagaete
Could the cocks be crowing at no set hour, mistaking the light of the autumn night's moon for the dawn?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tare mo mina kotowari to koso sadamurame hiru o arasou aki no yo no tsuki
Everyone, I am sure, would judge it only right that the autumn night's moon should vie with the day itself in brightness.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kage saete makoto ni tsuki no akaki yo wa kokoro mo sora ni ukarete zo sumu
On a night when the light is cold and clear and the moon is truly bright, even my heart drifts off into the sky, dwelling there and growing clear.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kuma mo naki tsuki no omote ni tobu kari no kage o kumo ka to magaetsuru kana
I mistook for clouds the shapes of the wild geese flying across the face of the flawless moon.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nagamureba ina ya kokoro no kurushiki ni itaku na sumiso aki no yo no tsuki
As I gaze at you, oh, how my heart aches; do not shine so terribly clear, moon of the autumn night.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kumo mo miyu kaze mo fukeba araku naru nodoka naritsuru tsuki no hikari o
Clouds have come into view, and with the wind blowing too, the moonlight that shone so calmly a moment ago turns rough.
Sankashu - Saigyō