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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Fukiharau arashi no nochi no takane yori konoha kumorade tsuki ya izuran
From the high peak, after the storm wind has swept away the leaves, will the moon now rise with no leaves to cloud its light?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gishumon-in no Tango
Shimo kōru sode ni mo kage wa nokorikeri tsuyu yori nareshi ariake no tsuki
Even on my sleeve, where the frost has frozen hard, its light still lingers—the dawn moon I have known so well since the days of dew.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michitomo
Nagametsutsu ikutabi sode ni kumoruran shigure ni fukuru ariake no tsuki
As I gaze on and on, how many times has it clouded over on my tear-wet sleeve—the moon of dawn, as the night grows late amid the winter showers?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Sadame naku shigururu sora no murakumo ni ikutabi onaji tsuki o matsuran
In the scattered clouds of a sky where the winter showers come and go without any fixed course, how many times must I wait for the same moon to appear again?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Yasumitsu
Ima yori wa konohagakure mo nakeredomo shigure ni nokoru murakumo no tsuki
From now on there are no leaves left to hide it, and yet the moon is still caught among the scattered clouds that the winter showers have left behind.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Tomochika
Hare kumoru kage o miyako ni sakidatete shiguru to tsuguru yama no ha no tsuki
Sending its light, now clear and now clouded, ahead to the capital, the moon over the mountain ridge tells us that the winter showers are already falling in the hills.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Tomochika
Taedae ni sato waku tsuki no hikari kana shigure o okuru yowa no murakumo
The moonlight falls in broken patches, lighting one village and not the next, as the scattered clouds of midnight pass on, carrying the winter showers along with them.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Ima wa tote nenamashi mono o shiguretsuru sora tomo miezu sumeru tsuki kana
I was about to give up and go to sleep—yet how clear the moon shines now, in a sky that looks nothing like the one that was full of showers a moment ago!
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ryōzen
Tsuyushimo no yowa ni okiite fuyu no yo no tsuki miru hodo ni sode wa kōrinu
I sat up awake in the middle of the night as the frosty dew settled, and while I gazed at the winter moon, my sleeves froze stiff.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sone no Yoshitada
Momijiba wa ono ga sometaru iro zo kashi yosoge ni okeru kesa no shimo kana
Those crimson leaves bear the very color you dyed them yourself—and yet there you lie upon them, as if they had nothing to do with you, frost of this morning!
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Ogurayama fumoto no sato ni konoha chireba kozue ni haruru tsuki o miru kana
In the village at the foot of Mount Ogura the leaves have fallen, and now I gaze at the moon shining clear through the bare treetops.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Aki no iro o haraihatete ya hisakata no tsuki no katsura ni kogarashi no kaze
Having swept away every trace of autumn's color here below, does the withering wind now blow even against the laurel tree of the moon in the far heavens?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Masatsune
Kaze samumi konoha hareyuku yonayona ni nokoru kuma naki niwa no tsukikage
As the wind grows cold and the leaves thin out night after night, the moonlight in the garden leaves no corner in shadow.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Shokushi
Waga kado no karita no neya ni fusu shigi no toko arawa naru fuyu no yo no tsuki
In the harvested field before my gate, where the snipe lie down to sleep, the winter moon lays their beds bare in its light.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Inpumon-in no Taifu
Fuyugare no mori no kuchiba no shimo no ue ni ochitaru tsuki no kage no samukesa
In the winter-withered grove, the moonlight falls upon the frost that covers the rotting leaves—how cold that light is!
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Saewabite samuru makura ni kage mireba shimo fukaki yo no ariake no tsuki
Waking because I could no longer bear the cold, I saw the light upon my pillow: the moon lingering into dawn on a night of deep frost.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Shunzei's Daughter