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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Matsu ga ne ni obana karishiki yomosugara katashiku sode ni yuki wa furitsutsu
Beneath the roots of a pine I cut pampas plumes to make a bed, and all night long the snow keeps falling on the single sleeve I have spread to sleep alone.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisue
Mishi hito mo tofu no urakaze otosenu ni tsurenaku sumeru aki no yo no tsuki
Those I once knew send no word, silent as the wind at the bay of Tofu, and yet, indifferent to it all, the moon of this autumn night shines clear.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Tachibana no Tamenaka
Kusamakura hodo zo henikeru miyako idete ikuyo ka tabi no tsuki ni nenuran
How much time has passed on this journey. Since I left the capital, how many nights have I slept beneath the traveler's moon?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ōe no Yoshitoki
Natsukari no ashi no karine mo aware nari tamae no tsuki no akegata no sora
Even a brief night's rest by the stubble of the summer-cut reeds moves the heart: the moon over Tamae in the sky at break of day.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Tachikaeri mata mo kite min matsushima ya ojima no tomaya nami ni arasu na
I will turn back and come to see this place once more. Rush-roofed huts of Ojima at Matsushima, do not let the waves lay you waste before then.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Koto toe yo omoi okitsu no hamachidori nakunaku ideshi ato no tsukikage
Plovers on the shore of Okitsu, where I left my heart behind, crying as I cried when I set out, ask for me after the moonlight lingering where I departed.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Nobe no tsuyu urawa no nami o kakochite mo yukue mo shiranu sode no tsukikage
I may blame the dew of the fields and the waves of the bays for my wet sleeves, yet not knowing where my journey leads, I see the moon reflected in the tears upon my sleeve.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Morotomo ni ideshi sora koso wasurarene miyako no yama no ariake no tsuki
I cannot forget the sky under which we set out together: the moon lingering at dawn above the hills of the capital.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Miyako nite tsuki o aware to omoishi wa kazu ni mo aranu susabi nari keri
When I thought the moon so moving in the capital, that was, I now see, a mere pastime not worth counting at all.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Tsuki miba to chigiri okiteshi furusato no hito mo ya koyoi sode nurasuran
"When you see the moon, remember me," we promised before I left; might the one I left at home be wetting her sleeves with tears tonight as well?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Akeba mata koyubeki yama no mine nare ya sora yuku tsuki no sue no shirakumo
Is that the peak of the mountain I must cross again when day breaks, those white clouds that lie ahead of the moon as it travels across the sky?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Furusato no kyō no omokage sasoikoto tsuki ni zo chigiru sayo no nakayama
Bring me the face of the one at home as she is today, lead it here to me: so I pledge with the moon at Sayo-no-Nakayama.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Masatsune
Wasureji to chigirite ideshi omokage wa miyuran mono o furusato no tsuki
"I will not forget," we pledged as I set out, and surely my face can be seen there now in the moon that shines over my old home.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Azumaji no yowa no nagame o kataranan miyako no yama ni kakaru tsukikage
Moonlight resting on the hills around the capital, tell them, I pray, how I gazed out lost in thought deep in the night on the eastern road.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Ikuyo ka wa tsuki o aware to nagamekite nami ni orishiku ise no hamaogi
For how many nights have I gazed at the moon, so moved by it, breaking down the beach reeds of Ise at the water's edge to make my bed?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Echizen
Shirazarishi yasose no nami o wakesugite katashiku mono wa ise no hamaogi
Having made my way through the waves of countless shoals I never knew before, what I spread to sleep alone are the beach reeds of Ise.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gishumon-in no Tango