The moon above a pond in winter
はらの池のあしまのつららしげけれどたえだえ月の影はすみけり
By a pond upon the plain
Icicles hang between the reeds
So solidly, yet
Fragments of the moon’s
Light shine clear.
Kinkai wakashū 339
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はらの池のあしまのつららしげけれどたえだえ月の影はすみけり
By a pond upon the plain
Icicles hang between the reeds
So solidly, yet
Fragments of the moon’s
Light shine clear.
Kinkai wakashū 339
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April 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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あひ見てもあはでもなげくたなばたのいつかこころはのどけかるらむ
Even having met him,
Now she sees him not, grieving is
The Weaver Maid—
When is it that her heart
Might find some peace?
Anonymous
Teiji’in tenjōbito uta’awase 7
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あひ見てもあはでもなげくたなばたのいつかこころはのどけかるらむ
Even having met him,
Now she sees him not, grieving is
The Weaver Maid—
When is it that her heart
Might find some peace?
Anonymous
Teiji’in tenjōbito uta’awase 7
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February 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Love
Left (Win)
恋しさのなぐさむ方やなからましつらき心をおもひませずは
I wish my love for you
My consolation
Would be not—for then
Of your cold heart
I would not have to think…
Lord Kiyosuke
Daikōtaigōgū daijin kiyosuke-ason ke uta’awase 47
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恋しさのなぐさむ方やなからましつらき心をおもひませずは
I wish my love for you
My consolation
Would be not—for then
Of your cold heart
I would not have to think…
Lord Kiyosuke
Daikōtaigōgū daijin kiyosuke-ason ke uta’awase 47
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January 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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The end of the year
うば玉のこのよなあけそしばしばもまだふるとしのうちぞとおもはん
Black as lily seeds,
This night I would not have dawn!
For a little while
That still in the old year
I linger, I would believe…
Kinkai wakashū 405
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うば玉のこのよなあけそしばしばもまだふるとしのうちぞとおもはん
Black as lily seeds,
This night I would not have dawn!
For a little while
That still in the old year
I linger, I would believe…
Kinkai wakashū 405
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August 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Among my poems on the beginning of winter.
かみな月時雨ふるらしおくやまはと山のもみぢいまさかりなり
In the Godless Month
Chill showers have fallen, it seems,
Deep within the mountains, while
On the peaks nearby the scarlet leaves
Are now at their finest.
321
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かみな月時雨ふるらしおくやまはと山のもみぢいまさかりなり
In the Godless Month
Chill showers have fallen, it seems,
Deep within the mountains, while
On the peaks nearby the scarlet leaves
Are now at their finest.
321
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March 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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月きよみかひのしらねをながむればいつかは雪に空は晴れける
When at the moon, so clear,
Above the white peak of Kai
I gaze, I wonder
When the snow
Will clear from the skies…
Shun’e
Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta'awase 55
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月きよみかひのしらねをながむればいつかは雪に空は晴れける
When at the moon, so clear,
Above the white peak of Kai
I gaze, I wonder
When the snow
Will clear from the skies…
Shun’e
Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta'awase 55
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April 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Snow
夕さればすずふく嵐身にしみてよしののたけにみゆきふるらし
When the evening comes,
Storm winds gusting through the arrow bamboo
Pierce my flesh;
On the high peak of Yoshino,
Fair snow is a’falling, it seems.
Kinkai wakashū 362
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夕さればすずふく嵐身にしみてよしののたけにみゆきふるらし
When the evening comes,
Storm winds gusting through the arrow bamboo
Pierce my flesh;
On the high peak of Yoshino,
Fair snow is a’falling, it seems.
Kinkai wakashū 362
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May 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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影きよく月をよこぎるうき雲は秋の名をさへけがしつるかな
The pure light of
The moon crossing go
The drifting clouds—
The very name of autumn
Have they besmirched!
Arifusa
Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta'awase 65
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影きよく月をよこぎるうき雲は秋の名をさへけがしつるかな
The pure light of
The moon crossing go
The drifting clouds—
The very name of autumn
Have they besmirched!
Arifusa
Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta'awase 65
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May 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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An old man feeling the sadness of the twilight of the year
うちわすれはかなくてのみすぐしきぬあはれとおもへ身につもるとし
I had forgotten
Just how briefly
All passes by—
Pity me, I beg you,
O, years piling upon me!
Kinkai wakashū 396
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うちわすれはかなくてのみすぐしきぬあはれとおもへ身につもるとし
I had forgotten
Just how briefly
All passes by—
Pity me, I beg you,
O, years piling upon me!
Kinkai wakashū 396
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July 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Right
妻こふるさ夜ふけがたの鹿のねに声うちそへて秋風ぞ吹く
Yearning for his mate as
Brief night wears on,
A stag’s cry
Is voiced, lacing
The gusting autumn wind.
Tamechika
Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta'awase 28
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妻こふるさ夜ふけがたの鹿のねに声うちそへて秋風ぞ吹く
Yearning for his mate as
Brief night wears on,
A stag’s cry
Is voiced, lacing
The gusting autumn wind.
Tamechika
Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta'awase 28
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March 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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さやけさに又ことごともわすられてふた心なく月をこそみれ
In its pure clarity
Still, all other things
Are forgotten,
With no divisions in my heart
Do I view the moon!
Lord Suetsune
Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta'awase 57
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さやけさに又ことごともわすられてふた心なく月をこそみれ
In its pure clarity
Still, all other things
Are forgotten,
With no divisions in my heart
Do I view the moon!
Lord Suetsune
Daikōtaigōgū no suke taira no tsunemori-ason ke uta'awase 57
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April 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Right
我が身だに思ふにたがふ物なればことわりなりや人のつらきは
My sorry self
Differs from what I had thought
So I suppose
It’s natural, isn’t it—
That she should be so cruel…
Moromitsu
50
The Right made me feel that’s how it is. It’s charming.
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我が身だに思ふにたがふ物なればことわりなりや人のつらきは
My sorry self
Differs from what I had thought
So I suppose
It’s natural, isn’t it—
That she should be so cruel…
Moromitsu
50
The Right made me feel that’s how it is. It’s charming.
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January 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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