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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Ayanaku mo kumoranu yoi o itou kana Shinobu no sato no aki no yo no tsuki
Against all sense I find myself hating a cloudless evening: the autumn moon over the village of Shinobu.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Tachibana no Tamenaka
Kaze fukeba tama chiru hagi no shitatsuyu ni hakanaku yadoru nobe no tsuki kana
When the wind blows the beads are scattered; and in the dew beneath the clover the moon of the moor lodges for a moment.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Koyoi tare suzu fuku kaze o mi ni shimete Yoshino no take no tsuki o miruramu
Who is it tonight who feels the wind in the bamboo to the bone and watches the moon over the peaks of Yoshino?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Yorimasa
Tsuki mireba omoi zo aenu yama takami izure no toshi no yuki ni ka aruramu
When I look at the moon I cannot have done with thinking: the hills are so high, and of what year is that snow?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shigeie
Nio no umi ya tsuki no hikari no utsuroeba nami no hana ni mo aki wa miekeri
On the grebes' lake, as the moonlight moves across it, autumn shows even in the flowers of the waves.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Fukeyukaba keburi mo araji Shiogama no urami na hate so aki no yo no tsuki
When the night grows late there will be no smoke left; do not look your fill at the bay of Shiogama, nor bear it a grudge, moon of the autumn night.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Kotowari no aki ni wa aenu namida kana tsuki no katsura mo kawaru hikari ni
Grief in autumn is only reasonable, and still these tears are past bearing: even the katsura in the moon has turned, and its light with it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Daughter of Fujiwara no Shunzei
Nagametsutsu omou mo sabishi hisakata no tsuki no miyako no akegata no sora
Even to think of it, gazing, is lonely: the capital in the moon, and the sky at daybreak.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Furusato no motoara no kohagi sakishi yori yonayona niwa no tsuki zo utsurou
Since the thin-rooted clover came into flower in the old village, night after night the moon has shifted across the garden.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Toki shi mo are furusatobito wa oto mo sede miyama no tsuki ni akikaze zo fuku
Of all times, now: no word comes from the old home, and the autumn wind blows on the moon deep in the mountains.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Fukakaranu toyama no io no nezame dani sazo na ko no ma no tsuki wa sabishiki
Even waking at a hut on the near hills, not deep in the mountains at all, is like this: how lonely, then, the moon between the trees up there.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Tsuki wa nao moranu ko no ma mo Sumiyoshi no matsu o tsukushite akikaze zo fuku
The moon still does not come through between the trees; and through every pine at Sumiyoshi the autumn wind is blowing.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Monk Jakuren
Nagamureba chiji ni mono omou tsuki ni mata waga mi hitotsu no mine no matsukaze
Gazing at the moon that sets a thousand thoughts going, I have besides, and mine alone, the wind in the pines on the ridge.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kamo no Chomei
Ashihiki no yamaji no koke no tsuyu no ue ni nezame yofukaki tsuki o miru kana
On the dew that lies on the moss of the mountain road I wake far into the night, and look at the moon.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Kokoro aru Ojima no ama no tamoto kana tsuki yadore to wa nurenu mono kara
They must have hearts, the sleeves of the fishers of Ojima: they are not wet because anyone told them to hold the moon, and they hold it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kunaikyo
Wasureji na Naniwa no aki no yowa no sora kotoura ni sumu tsuki wa miru tomo
I shall not forget this midnight sky of autumn at Naniwa, though I come to see the moon clear over some other bay.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gishumon-in no Tango