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- Sankashu
Aki no tsuki mono omou hito no tame tote ya uki omokage ni soete izuran
Does the autumn moon rise bringing the painful image of my beloved with it, for the sake of one who broods over love?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hedatetaru hito no kokoro no kuma ni yori tsuki o sayaka ni minu ga kanashisa
Because of the shadow in the heart of the one who keeps herself apart from me, I cannot see the moon clearly, and that is my sorrow.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Namida yue tsuki wa kumoreru tsuki nareba nagarenu ori zo harema narikeru
Since the moon is clouded by my tears, its only clear spells are the moments when they are not flowing.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kuma mo naki orishimo hito o omoiidete kokoro to tsuki o yatsushitsuru kana
Just when the moon shone without a shadow, I remembered you, and of my own accord I made the moon look dim and worn with my tears.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Mono omou kokoro no kuma o nogoiutete kumoranu tsuki o miru yoshi mo gana
If only there were a way to wipe away and cast off the shadow in my brooding heart, and see the moon unclouded.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Koishisa ya omoiyowaru to nagamureba itodo kokoro o kudaku tsukikage
I gazed at the moon thinking my longing might ease, yet its light only shatters my heart all the more.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tomo sureba tsuki sumu sora ni akugaruru kokoro no hate o shiru yoshi mo gana
If only I could know where it will end, this heart that all too easily wanders off into the sky where the moon shines clear.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nagamuru ni nagusamu koto wa nakeredomo tsuki o tomo nite akasu koro kana
Though gazing brings me no comfort, these days I pass the nights until dawn with the moon as my only friend.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Mono omoite nagamuru koro no tsuki no iro ni ika bakari naru aware somuran
In the color of the moon I gaze at these days, lost in brooding, how deep a sorrow must have soaked in?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Amagumo no warinaki hima o moru tsuki no kage bakari dani aimiteshi kana
If only for a moment, as brief as the moonlight that leaks through the narrowest gap in the clouds, I would meet you.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Asa no tsuki Shinoda no mori no chie yori mo shigeki nageki ya kuma nakaruran
Moon of the dawn, is it my laments, grown thicker than the thousand branches of Shinoda Forest, that you light up leaving no shadow?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Omoishiru hito ariake no yo nariseba tsukisezu mi oba uramizaramashi
If this were a night of the dawn moon with someone who understood my heart, I would not be resenting my lot without end.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kazu naranu kokoro no toga ni nashihateji shirasete koso wa mi o mo uramime
I will not dismiss it all as the fault of my own worthless heart; only after I have let you know my feelings will I resent my lot.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Uchimukau sono aramashi no omokage o makoto ni nashite miru yoshi mo gana
If only there were a way to make real the image I keep picturing of the day we will sit face to face.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yamagatsu no arano o shimete sumisomuru katadayori naru koi mo suru kana
Like a mountain dweller who stakes out a patch of wild land and begins to live there, mine is a love that leans on one side alone.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tokiwayama shii no shitashiba karisuten kakurete omou kai no naki ka to
I will cut away the brushwood beneath the chinquapins of Mount Tokiwa, for I wonder what is to be gained by loving in hiding.
Sankashu - Saigyō