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- Sankashu
Tsuki ni hajite sashiiderarenu kokoro kana nagamu ga sode ni kage no yadoreba
Ashamed before the moon, my heart cannot bring itself to come forward, for its light lodges in the tears on my sleeves as I gaze.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kokoro o ba miru hito goto ni kurushimete nani ka wa tsuki no toridokoro naru
Tormenting the heart of everyone who looks at it, what good is there in the moon at all?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuyukesa wa ukimi no sode no kuse naru o tsuki miru toga ni ōsetsuru kana
The wetness of my sleeves is simply the habit of my wretched self, and yet I have blamed it on gazing at the moon.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nagamekite tsuki ika bakari shinobaren kono yo shi kumo no hoka ni narinaba
Having gazed at it all these years, how I shall long for the moon once this world lies far beyond the clouds.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Itsuka ware kono yo no sora o hedataran aware aware to tsuki o omoite
Someday I shall be parted from the sky of this world, still thinking of the moon, sighing, "Ah, how moving, ah."
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuyu mo aritsu kaesugaesu mo omoishirite hitori zo mitsuru asagao no hana
There was dew upon it a moment ago; knowing again and again how fleeting things are, I gazed alone at the morning glory.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hitokire wa miyako o sutete izuredomo megurite wa nao kiso no kakehashi
Once I cast off the capital and set out, yet after all my wanderings I find myself still on the precarious hanging bridge of Kiso.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Sutetaredo kakurete sumanu hito ni nareba nao yo ni aru ni nitaru narikeri
Though I have renounced the world, since I have become one who does not live hidden away, it is much the same as still being in the world.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yo no naka o sutete sute'enu kokochi shite miyako hanarenu waga mi narikeri
Though I have renounced the world, I feel as though I cannot renounce it, and I am, it seems, one who cannot leave the capital behind.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Suteshi ori no kokoro o sara ni aratamete miru yo no hito ni wakarehatenan
Renewing once more the heart I had when I first renounced the world, I will part for good from the people I see around me.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Omoe kokoro hito no araba ya yo ni mo hajimu saritote ya wa to isamu bakari zo
Think on it, my heart: if others were watching, I would feel ashamed before the world—yet is that reason enough? I can only keep admonishing myself.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kuretake no fushi shigekaranu yo nariseba kono kimi wa tote sashiidenamashi
Were this a world where troubles were not so many, like the thick joints of black bamboo, I would have stepped forward, saying, "This is my lord," and served.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ashi yoshi o omoiwaku koso kurushikere tada arasareba ararekeru mi o
It is weighing good and bad that brings us pain; if we simply let things be, we are beings who can go on living as we are.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Fukaku iru wa tsuki yue to shi mo naki mono o ukiyo shinoban miyoshino no yama
I go deep into the hills, though not for the sake of the moon; I will hide from this sorrowful world in the mountains of fair Yoshino.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kono sato ya saga no mikari no ato naran noyama mo hate wa asekawarikeri
Could this village be the site of the imperial hunts of Saga? Even fields and hills, in the end, fade and change.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Niwa no iwa ni metatsuru hito mo nakaramashi kado aru sama ni tateshi okazu wa
No one would have paid any notice to the stones in the garden, had Kanaoka not set them up in such a graceful form.
Sankashu - Saigyō