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- Senzai Wakashu
Shimo sayuru niwa no ko no ha o fumiwakete tsuki wa miru ya to tou hito mo gana
I wish someone would come, treading through the fallen leaves in my frost-chilled garden, to ask whether I am gazing at the moon.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigyō
Suminareshi yado o ba idete nishi e yuku tsuki o shitaite yama ni koso ire
Leaving the house where I have lived so long, I follow the moon on its way to the west and enter the mountains.
Senzai Wakashu - Taira no Saneshige
Furusato no itai no shimizu mikusa ite tsuki sae sumazu narinikeru kana
At my old home the clear water of the board-lined well is overgrown with water weeds, and now not even the moon shines clear there or dwells in it.
Senzai Wakashu - Shun'e
Sa mo koso wa kage todomu beki yo narane do ato naki mizu ni yadoru tsuki kana
True, this is not a world where any image can stay, and yet the moon lodges in water that flows on and leaves no trace.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Iemoto
Nani to naku nagamuru sode no kawakanu wa tsuki no katsura no tsuyu ya okuran
If the sleeves with which I gaze at the moon for no particular reason never dry, could it be that dew falls on them from the laurel tree said to grow on the moon?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Chikamori
Mashiba fuku yado no arare ni yume samete ariakegata no tsuki o miru kana
Woken from my dream by hail falling on my hut thatched with brushwood, I find myself gazing at the moon that still remains at dawn.
Senzai Wakashu - Ōe no Kinkage
Ashihiki no yama no ha chikaku sumu to temo matade ya wa miru ariake no tsuki
Even living close to the mountain rim, could I ever see it without waiting, the moon that rises late and lingers into dawn?
Senzai Wakashu - Jōren
Morotomo ni aki o ya shinobu shimogare no ogi no uwaba o terasu tsukikage
Does it, too, long with me for the autumn that has passed? The moonlight shines on the upper leaves of the frost-withered reeds.
Senzai Wakashu - Ki no Yasumune
Masuge ouru yamashitamizu ni yadoru yo wa tsuki sae kusa no iori o zo sasu
On a night when it lodges in the stream beneath the mountain where sedges grow, even the moon seems to shut itself into a hut of grass, its light shining within.
Senzai Wakashu - Chōshin
Fukaki yo no tsuyu fukimusubu kogarashi ni sora saenoboru yama no ha no tsuki
Amid the withering wind that turns the late-night dew to frost, the moon rises from the mountain rim into a cold, clear sky.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tametada
Yamakaze ni maya no ashibuki arenikeri makura ni yadoru yowa no tsukikage
The mountain wind has ravaged the reed thatch of my gabled hut, and through it the midnight moonlight comes to lodge upon my pillow.
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuen
Yama fukami tare mata kakaru sumai shite maki no ha wakuru tsuki o miruran
So deep in the mountains, who else, I wonder, lives in such a dwelling and watches the moon shining through the leaves of the cedars?
Senzai Wakashu - Jien
Tsukikage no irinuru ato ni omou kana mayowamu yami no yukusue no sora
After the moonlight has set, my thoughts turn to the sky of the future, a darkness in which I am bound to wander.
Senzai Wakashu - Jien
Kono yo nite musoji wa narenu aki no tsuki shide no yamaji mo omogawari suna
O autumn moon, whom I have come to know so well over sixty years in this world, do not change your face for me even on the mountain path to death.
Senzai Wakashu - Shun'e
Komu yo ni wa kokoro no uchi ni arawasan akade yaminuru tsuki no hikari o
In the world to come I will make it appear within my heart: the light of the moon, which I could never gaze at enough before this life came to an end.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigyō
Ika nareba shizumi nagara ni toshi o hete yoyo no kumoi no tsuki o mitsuran
Why is it that, still sunk in lowly rank, I have passed the years gazing at the moon above the palace through reign after reign?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei