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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Omoiizuru hito mo arashi no yama no ha ni hitori zo irishi ariake no tsuki
Thinking there was no one left who would remember me, I went alone into the storm-swept mountain rim, like the moon lingering at dawn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jōken
Waka no ura ni ie no kaze koso nakeredomo nami fuku iro wa tsuki ni miekeri
Though at Waka Bay I have no wind of a family tradition in poetry, the look of the waves the wind stirs is plain to see in the moonlight.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Norimitsu
Yomosugara ura kogu fune wa ato mo nashi tsuki zo nokoreru Shiga no Karasaki
Of the boats that rowed about the bay all night long there is no trace left—only the moon remains at Karasaki of Shiga.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gishumon-in no Tango
Yama no ha ni omoi mo iraji yo no naka wa totemo kakutemo ariake no tsuki
I will not set my heart on vanishing into the mountain rim; in this world, one can live on whatever comes, like the moon lingering at dawn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Morikata
Wasureji yo wasuru na to dani iitemashi kumoi no tsuki no kokoro ariseba
I will never forget—if only the moon above the palace clouds had a heart, I would at least ask it not to forget me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Ika ni shite sode ni hikari no yadoruran kumoi no tsuki wa hedateteshi mi o
How can it be that the moonlight lodges on my sleeves, when I am one set far apart from the moon above the palace clouds?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Kokoro ni wa wasururu toki mo nakarikeri miyo no mukashi no kumo no ue no tsuki
In my heart there was never a moment I forgot it—the moon above the palace clouds in the days I served three reigns.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinhira
Mukashi mishi kumoi o meguru aki no tsuki ima ikutose ka sode ni yadosan
The autumn moon that circles the palace sky I knew long ago—for how many more years will I keep it lodged on my tear-wet sleeves?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Nijoin no Sanuki
Uki mi yo ni nagaraeba nao omoiide yo tamoto ni chigiru ariake no tsuki
If this wretched self lives on in the world, still remember me, O dawn moon that pledges itself tonight upon my sleeves.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsunemichi
Miyako ni mo hito ya matsuran Ishiyama no mine ni nokoreru aki no yo no tsuki
In the capital, too, are people waiting for it—the autumn night's moon that still lingers on the peak of Ishiyama?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagato
Awaji nite awa to haruka ni mishi tsuki no chikaki koyoi wa tokorokara kamo
The moon I once saw so far off at Awaji, crying, "There it is!"—does it seem so near tonight because of where I am?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Itazura ni nete wa akasedo morotomo ni kimi ga konu yo no tsuki wa mizariki
Though I have passed the nights in idle sleep until dawn, on the nights you did not come, I never looked at the moon we might have watched together.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michinari
Ama no hara haruka ni hitori nagamureba tamoto ni tsuki no idenikeru kana
As I gaze alone far across the plain of heaven, the moon has risen—on my own tear-wet sleeves.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Zōki
Tanomekoshi hito o Matsuchi no yamakaze ni sayo fukeshikaba tsuki mo iriniki
Waiting for the one who promised to come, the night grew late in the mountain wind of Matsuchi, and so the moon, too, went in behind the hills.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsuki miba to iishi bakari no hito wa kode maki no to tataku niwa no matsukaze
The one who said only, "When the moon is out, I'll come," has not come—the only thing knocking at my cedar door is the wind in the garden pines.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Yamazato ni tsuki wa miru ya to hito wa kozu sora yuku kaze zo ko no ha o mo tou
No one comes to my mountain home to ask whether I am watching the moon—only the wind crossing the sky comes calling, even on the leaves of the trees.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien