Love and the Rain.
時鳥なくやさ月のさみだれのはれず物思ふ比にも有るかな
hototogisu
naku ya satsuki no
samidare no
harezu mono’omou
koro ni mo aru kana | The cuckoo
Calls among the Fifth Month’s
Showers
Never clearing, gloomy thought
Truly fills this time! |
528
からころもすそあはぬつまに吹く風のめにこそみえね身にはしみけり
karakoromo
suso awanu tsuma ni
fuku kaze no
me ni koso miene
mi ni wa shimikeri | A Cathay robe’s
Solitary hem at the edge
Caught by the wind—
Invisible yet
Piercing deep within my flesh. |
527
Love and the Wind.
あだし野の葛のうら吹く秋風の目にしみえねばしる人もなし
adashino no
kuzu no ura fuku
akikaze no
me ni shimieneba
shiru hito mo nashi | On Adashi Plain
The arrowroot’s underside is revealed
By the autumn wind,
Invisible to the eye, so
No one knows it’s there at all… |
526
Love and Clouds.
しら雲のきえはきえなでなにしかもたつたの山の名のみたつらん
shirakumo no
kie wa kienade
nani shika mo
tatsuta no yama no
na nomi tatsuran | The clouds, so white, are
On the point of vanishing,
So why,
From Tatsuta Mountain
Should such rumours arise? |
525
月影もさやにはみえずかきくらす心のやみのはれしやらねば
tsukikage mo
saya ni wa miezu
kakikurasu
kokoro no yami no
hareshi yaraneba | The moonlight
I cannot clearly see, for
Drawing in
The darkness in my heart
Never clears away, so… |
524
Love and the moon.
かずならぬ身はうき雲のよそながら哀とぞおもふ秋のよの月
kazu naranu
mi wa ukigumo no
yoso nagara
aware to zo omou
aki no yo no tsuki | Unlike all those countless
Others, I, drifting with the clouds
So distant,
Feel so fondly for
The moon this autumn night. |
523
Love beneath the moon.
わが袖におぼえず月ぞやどりけるとふ人あらばいかがこたへむ
wa ga sode ni
oboezu tsuki zo
yadorikeru
tou hito araba
ikaga kotaemu | Upon my sleeves,
Unexpectedly, the moon
Has taken lodging—
Were he to come to call,
How might I now respond? |
522
まてとしもたのめぬ山も月は出でぬいひしばかりのゆふぐれの空
mate to shimo
tanomenu yama mo
tsuki wa idenu
iishi bakari no
yūgure no sora | ‘Wait for me,’ in such words
I trust, for from the mountains
The moon has emerged—
Lip-service alone from you
Beneath the evening skies… |
521
恨みわびまたじと思ふゆふべだに猶山のはに月はいでにけり
uramiwabi
mataji to omou
yūbe dani
nao yama no ha ni
tsuki wa idenikeri | Lonely and hating him,
‘I’ll wait no more,’ I think, but
Even on such an evening,
Still from the mountain’s edge
The moon has appeared—will he… |
520
On the moon, while waiting for a man.
しのぶればくるしきものを山のはにさしいづる月の影に見えなむ
shinobureba
kurushiki mono o
yama no ha ni
sashi’izuru tsuki no
kage ni mienamu | When I ponder upon it,
How much it does hurt—
From the mountain’s edge,
Emerging, the moon’s
Bright face I wish would appear… |
519
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