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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Aki no tsuyu ya tamoto ni itaku musuburamu nagaki yo akazu yadoru tsuki kana
Is it the autumn dew that gathers so thickly on my sleeve? All the long night the moon lodges there and does not tire of it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Go-Toba In
Sara ni mata kure o tanome to akenikeri tsuki wa tsurenaki aki no yo no sora
As if to say, wait for me again at dusk, the day has broken; and the moon takes no notice, in the sky of an autumn night.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michiteru
Ōkata ni aki no nezame no tsuyukeku wa mata taga sode ni ariake no tsuki
If waking in autumn leaves everyone's sleeve wet, then on whose sleeve but mine does the dawn moon lodge?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Nijoin no Sanuki
Haraikane sakoso wa tsuyu no shigekarame yadoru ka tsuki no sode no semaki ni
I cannot brush it off; the dew must indeed lie thick. And does the moon lodge there as well, on a sleeve as narrow as mine?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Masatsune
Shitamomiji katsu chiru yama no yūshigure nurete ya hitori shika no nakuran
On the mountain where the lower leaves turn red even as they fall, an evening shower comes down; drenched by it, does the stag call out all alone?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Yamaoroshi ni shika no ne takaku kikoyu nari onoe no tsuki ni sayo ya fukenuru
Borne on the wind sweeping down the mountain, the cry of the deer sounds high and clear; with the moon over the summit, has the night already grown late?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sanjō Sanefusa
Nowaki seshi ono no kusabushi arehatete miyama ni fukaki saoshika no koe
The autumn gale has left the grassy beds on the moor in ruin, and now the voice of the stag comes from deep within the deep mountains.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Arashi fuku makuzugahara ni naku shika wa uramite nomi ya tsuma o kouran
The stag crying on the kudzu meadow swept by the storm—as the wind turns the kudzu leaves to show their undersides, does he long for his mate with nothing but resentment?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Shun'e
Tsuma kouru shika no tachido o tazunureba sayama ga suso ni akikaze zo fuku
When I go seeking the spot where the stag longing for his mate is standing, I find only the autumn wind blowing at the foot of the mountain.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Oe no Masafusa
Miyamabe no matsu no kozue o wataru nari arashi ni yadosu saoshika no koe
It seems to pass across the tops of the pines near the deep mountains—the voice of the stag, lodged within the storm wind.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Prince Koreakira
Ware naranu hito mo aware ya masaruran shika naku yama no aki no yūgure
Do others besides me also feel their sense of pathos deepen at dusk in autumn, on the mountain where the deer are crying?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michichika
Tague kuru matsu no arashi ya tayumuran onoe ni kaeru saoshika no koe
Has the storm in the pines that carried it here begun to slacken? The voice of the stag now seems to return toward the summit.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Naku shika no koe ni mezamete shinobu kana mihatenu yume no aki no omoi o
Awakened by the voice of the calling deer, I linger longingly over the autumn sorrow of a dream I was not allowed to finish.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Yomosugara tsuma tou shika no naku nae ni kohagi ga hara no tsuyu zo koboruru
All night long, as the stag cries out calling for his mate, the dew spills down across the field of bush clover.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Toshitada
Nezame shite hisashiku narinu aki no yo wa ake ya shinuran shika zo naku naru
A long time has passed since I woke in the night; has the autumn night finally given way to dawn? I hear the deer crying.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michinari
Oyamada no io chikaku naku shika no ne ni odorokasarete odorokasu kana
Startled awake by the cry of a stag calling near my hut by the mountain paddy, I in turn startle it away.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō