SKKS IV: 380

A poem on the moon, when she presented a hundred poem sequence.

ながめわびぬあきよりほかのやどもがな野にも山にも月やすむらん

nagame wabinu
aki yori hoka no
yado mogana
no ni mo yama ni mo
tsuki ya sumuran
Suffering and sorrowing—
Other than in autumn
Might I find lodging? Though
Above the fields and mountains, too,
The moon shines so clear…[1]

Princess Shokushi

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

[1] An allusive variation on KKS XVIII: 947.

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