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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Omokage no wasurenu hito ni yosoetsutsu iru o zo shitau aki no yo no tsuki
Likening it to the one whose face I cannot forget, I yearn after the autumn night's moon as it sinks away.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Higo
Ukihito no tsuki wa nani zo no yukari zo to omoinagara mo uchinagametsutsu
What bond could there be between the moon and that heartless one, I wonder, and yet even as I think so I go on gazing at it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanesada
Tsuki nomi ya uwa no sora naru katami nite omoi mo ideba kokoro kayowamu
Is the moon, drifting uncertainly in the sky, our only keepsake? If you too should look at it and remember me, would our hearts then reach each other?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Kuma mo naki orishimo hito o omoiidete kokoro to tsuki o yatsushitsuru kana
Just when the moon shone without a single shadow, I remembered that person, and by my own heart's doing I dimmed the moon with tears, leaving it haggard.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Mono omoite nagamuru koro no tsuki no iro ni ikabakari naru aware somuramu
In these days of brooding over love, as I gaze at the moon, how deeply must its color be steeped in sorrow?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Kumore kashi nagamuru kara ni kanashiki wa tsuki ni oboyuru hito no omokage
Cloud over, moon! As soon as I gaze at you, what grieves me is the face of the one you call to mind.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Hachijoin no Takakura
Wasuraruru mi o shiru sode no murasame ni tsurenaku yama no tsuki wa idekeri
As a passing shower falls on my sleeve, wet with the knowledge that I am forgotten, the moon has risen over the mountain, coldly indifferent.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Go-Toba In
Meguriawamu kagiri wa itsu to shiranedomo tsuki na hedate so yoso no ukigumo
I do not know when we will meet again, as the moon comes round in its course; but you drifting clouds from elsewhere, do not come between me and the moon.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Waga namida motomete sode ni yadore tsuki saritote hito no kage wa minedomo
Seek out my tears, O moon, and lodge upon my sleeve, though even so I will not see the face of the one I love.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Koiwaburu namida ya sora ni kumoruramu hikari mo kawaru neya no tsukikage
Have my tears of lovesick grief clouded the sky? Even the light of the moon shining into my bedchamber seems changed.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintsune
Ikumeguri sora yuku tsuki mo hedatekinu chigirishi naka wa yoso no ukigumo
How many times has the moon circled across the sky since then, so many months have come between us; the bond we once pledged is now a drifting cloud belonging to somewhere else.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michiteru
Ima komu to chigirishi koto wa yume nagara mishi yo ni nitaru ariake no tsuki
Your promise that you would come soon has faded like a dream, yet the moon lingering at dawn looks just as it did on the night we met.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michitomo
Wasureji to iishi bakari no nagori tote sono yo no tsuki wa megurikinikeri
As the only remnant of your words, "I will not forget," the moon of that night has come circling round again.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ariie
Omoiidete yonayona tsuki ni tazunezu wa mate to chigirishi naka ya taenamu
If I did not remember you and ask the moon about you night after night, would the bond we vowed when you said, "Wait for me," come to an end?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Wasuru na yo ima wa kokoro no kawaru tomo nareshi sono yo no ariake no tsuki
Do not forget, even if that person's heart has changed by now, the night we grew close, O moon lingering at dawn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Sono mama ni matsu no arashi mo kawaranu o wasure ya shinuru fukeshi yo no tsuki
The wind in the pines blows just as it did that night, unchanged; yet have you forgotten the moon we watched until the night grew late?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sōen