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- Sankashu
Iseshima ya tsuki no hikari no saikaura wa akashi ni wa ninu kage zo sumikeru
Ah, the isles of Ise! At Saika Bay, lit by the moon, the moonlight is clear beyond the bright moon of Akashi.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ikemizu ni soko kiyoku sumu tsukikage wa nami ni kōri o shikiwatasu kana
The moonlight, clear down to the depths of the pond, seems to lay a sheet of ice across the waves.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuki o mite akashi no ura o izuru fune wa nami no yoru to ya omowazaruran
The boats that set out from Akashi Bay while gazing at the moon—do they not think it is night, as the waves draw near?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hanaretaru shirara no hama no oki no ishi o kudakade arau tsuki no shiranami
The stones that stand apart off the white beach of Shirara are washed, without breaking, by the white waves under the moon.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Omoitokeba chisato no kage mo kazu narazu itaranu kuma mo tsuki ni araseji
Once I come to understand, even the light that shines a thousand leagues is of no account; I will let no corner remain unreached by the moon.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ōkata no aki o ba tsuki ni tsutsumasete fuki hokorobasu kaze no oto kana
Having let the moon wrap up nearly all of autumn's charm, the sound of the wind blows the bundle open at the seams.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nanigoto ka kono yo ni hetaru omoide o toekashi hito ni tsuki o oshien
I wish someone would ask me what memory I hold from my passage through this world; then I would tell them: the moon.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Omoishiru o yo ni wa kuma naki kage narazu waga me ni kumoru tsuki no hikari wa
I have come to know that the moonlight, shining without a shadow for the world, is not so for me, for it clouds over in my own eyes.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ukiyo to mo omoitōsaji oshikaeshi tsuki no sumikeru hisakata no sora
I will not go on thinking of this as a world of sorrow; turning my thoughts around, see how clear the moon shines in the vast sky.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuki no yo yagate tomo to o narite izuku ni mo hito shirazaran sumika oshieyo
On this moonlit night, become my friend at once, and show me some dwelling, anywhere at all, that no one knows.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Shigaraki no soma no ōji wa todomete yo hatsuyuki furinu muko no yamabito
Hold back all traffic on the great road of the Shigaraki timberlands; the first snow has fallen, you mountain folk over the way.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Isogazu wa yuki ni waga mi ya tomerarete yamabe no sato ni tera o matamashi
Had I not been in a hurry, I would have been held fast by the snow and waited for the temple in a village by the mountains.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Aware shirite tare ka wakekon yamazato no yuki furiuzumu niwa no yūgure
Who, knowing its beauty, would come parting the snow? The garden of a mountain village, buried under falling snow at dusk.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Minatogawa toma ni yuki fuku tomobune wa muyai tsutsu koso yo o akashikere
On the Minato River, the boats with snow blowing against their rush-mat covers passed the night moored fast to one another.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ikadashi no nami no shizumu to mietsuru wa yuki o tsumitsutsu kudaru narikeri
The raftsman seemed to be sinking into the waves, but he was only going downstream with snow piling up on him.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tamari iru kozue no yuki no haru naraba yamazato ika ni motenasaremashi
If the snow piled on the treetops were the blossoms of spring, how warmly people would welcome this mountain village!
Sankashu - Saigyō