Shunzei-kyō no musume-shū 18

こぎはなれゆく月影ぞあはれなる虫明の松の風の音かな

kogihanare
yuku tsukikage zo
awarenaru
mushiake no matsu no
kaze no oto kana
Drifting ever
Further, the moonlight
Moves my heart with
The pines at Mushiake
Sounding in the wind! [i]

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[i] See: Seaways. 何となく心ぞとまるそれとみてこぎはなれゆくむしあけの松 nani to naku / kokoro zo tomaru / sore to mite / kogihanareyuku / mushiake no matsu ‘Somehow, / They linger in my heart / Having seen them / Drifting ever further, / The pines of Mushiake.’ (Shunzei gosha hyakushu 491); From a Fifty Poem Sequence on the Moon. むしあけのせとのしほひのあけがたになみの月かげとほざかるなり mushiake no / seto no shiohi no / akegata ni / nami no tsukikage / tōzakaru nari ‘At Mushiake / Strait the receding tide / At dawn, / The waves carrying the moonlight / Into the distance.’ Yoshitsune (Akishino gesseishū I: 64)

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