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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Ariake no tsuki no yukue o nagamete zo nodera no kane wa kiku bekarikeru
It is while gazing after the dawn moon as it goes on its way that one should listen to the bell of the temple in the fields.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Yama no ha o idete mo matsu no ko no ma yori kokorozukushi no ariake no tsuki
Even after rising over the mountain rim, it peeps only through the gaps in the pines—how it wears upon my heart, the moon lingering at dawn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Narikiyo
Yomosugara hitori miyama no maki no ha ni kumoru mo sumeru ariake no tsuki
All night long I watch alone in the deep mountains, through the leaves of the cedars, the dawn moon—clouded over, and yet shining clear.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kamo no Chomei
Okuyama no ko no ha no otsuru akikaze ni taedae mine no kumo zo nokoreru
In the autumn wind that sends the leaves falling in the deep mountains, clouds still linger here and there in broken shreds upon the peaks.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Tsuki sumeba yomo no ukigumo sora ni kiete miyamagakure ni yuku arashi kana
As the moon shines clear, the drifting clouds on every side vanish into the sky, and the storm wind goes off to hide in the depths of the mountains.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Nagamewabinu shiba no amido no akegata ni yama no ha chikaku nokoru tsukikage
I have grown weary of gazing—at dawn, as I open my woven brushwood door, the moonlight lingers near the mountain rim.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Yūen
Akatsuki no tsuki min to shimo omowanedo mishi hito yue ni nagameraretsutsu
I have no particular wish to look at the moon before dawn, yet because of someone I once knew, I find myself gazing at it again and again.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Retired Emperor Kazan
Ariake no tsuki bakari koso kayoikere kuru hito nashi no yado no niwa ni mo
Only the moon lingering at dawn comes calling, even to the garden of a house where no one comes.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ise no Taifu
Suminareshi hitokage mo senu waga yado ni ariake no tsuki no ikuyo to mo naku
To my house, where no longer is there any shadow of the one who used to live here, the dawn moon comes, night after night beyond counting.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Sumu hito mo aru ka naki ka no yado narashi ashima no tsuki no moru ni makasete
This must be a house where one can hardly tell whether anyone lives—the moonlight through the reeds is left to seep in as it will.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Tsunenobu
Omoiki ya wakareshi aki ni meguriaite mata mo kono yo no tsuki o min to wa
Did I ever imagine that, meeting again the autumn in which I bade farewell to the world, I would see the moon of this world once more?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Tsuki o mite kokoro ukareshi inishie no aki ni mo sara ni meguriainuru
I have come round once more to that autumn long ago when, gazing at the moon, my heart went wandering off.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Yomosugara tsuki koso sode ni yadorikere mukashi no aki o omoiizureba
All night long it was the moon that lodged on my sleeves, as I remembered the autumns of long ago.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Tsuki no iro ni kokoro o kiyoku somemashi ya miyako o idenu waga mi nariseba
Could I have dyed my heart so pure in the color of the moon, had I been one who never left the capital?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Sutsu to naraba ukiyo o itou shirushi aran ware miba kumore aki no yo no tsuki
If I have truly cast the world away, there should be some sign that I spurn it—so cloud over when I look at you, moon of the autumn night.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Fukenikeru waga mi no kage o omou ma ni haruka ni tsuki no katabukinikeru
While I was thinking of this self of mine, grown old as the night grew late, the moon had sunk far down toward the west.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō