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- Sankashu
Kakei ni mo kimi ga tsurara ya musuburan kokorobosoku mo taenu naru kana
Has your coldness frozen into ice even in the water pipe? How forlorn I am, for it seems the flow has stopped.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Omoikane ichi no naka ni wa hito ōmi yukari tazunete tsukuru tamazusa
Unable to bear my longing, and since the market is so crowded, I seek out someone I know and entrust my love letter to him.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nami shinogu koto o mo nani ka wazurawan kimi ni au beki michi to omowaba
Why would I mind the hardship of pushing through the waves, if I think of it as the road that leads me to you?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Iwashiro no matsukaze kikeba mono omou hito mo kokoro zo musubōrekeru
Hearing the wind in the pines of Iwashiro, the heart of one brooding over love grows knotted and heavy too.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nagatsuki no amari ni tsuraki kokoro nite imu to wa hito no iu ni ya aruran
Is it from a heart as excessively cold as this surplus month of Nagatsuki that you say the extra month must be shunned?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kotozukuru miare no hodo o sugushite mo nao ya uzuki no kokoro naru beki
Even when the time of the Miare rite she used as her excuse has passed, will her heart remain as cold and sorrowful as the month of Uzuki?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Amakudaru kami no shirushi no arinashi o tsurenaki hito no yukue nite min
Whether the god who came down from heaven grants any blessing or none, I will see by what becomes of the one who is so cold to me.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuki matsu to iinasaretsuru yoi no ma no kokoro no iro o sode ni mienuru
I told everyone I was waiting for the moon, but the true color of my heart in those early evening hours has been seen in my tear-wet sleeves.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Shirazariki kumoi no yoso ni mishi tsuki no kage o tamoto ni yadosu beshi to wa
I never knew that the moon I used to watch far off beyond the clouds would come to lodge its light in my tear-soaked sleeves.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Aware to mo miru hito araba omoinan tsuki no omote ni yadoru kokoro wa
If anyone were to see it, surely they would find it moving, this heart of mine that dwells upon the face of the moon.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuki mireba ideya to yo nomi omōete motarinikuku mo naru kokoro kana
When I look at the moon I can only sigh, 'ah, well,' and think of the world and of us, until my heart grows too hard to hold steady.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yumihari no tsuki ni hazurete mishi kage no yasashikarishi wa itsu ka wasuren
When could I ever forget how graceful you looked, the glimpse I had of you in the shadows beyond the light of the bow-shaped moon?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Omokage no wasuraru majiki wakare kana nagori o hito no tsuki ni todomete
Such a parting, one whose image I could never forget, for you have left all the traces of yourself in the moon.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Aki no yo no tsuki ya namida o kakotsuran kumo naki kage o moteyatsusu tote
Is the moon of this autumn night complaining against my tears, saying they make its cloudless light look dim and worn?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ama no hara sayuru misora wa harenagara namida zo tsuki no kumo ni narikeru
The wide sky is cold, clear and cloudless, yet my tears have become the clouds that dim the moon.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Mono omou kokoro no take zo shirarenuru yonayona tsuki o nagameakashite
How deep my brooding heart is, I have come to know, gazing at the moon night after night until the dawn.
Sankashu - Saigyō