万代に見るともあかじ長月の有明の月のあらむかぎりは
yorozuyo ni miru to mo akaji nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki no aramu kagiri wa Even for ten thousand ages [i]
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[i] See: 万代 見友将飽八 三芳野乃 多芸都河内之 大宮所 yorozuyo ni / mitomo akame ya / miyoshino no / tagitsu kōchi no / ōmiyadokoro ‘Though for a myriad reigns / I gaze, I’ll ne’er be full / Of Yoshino’s / Seething river shore, / The mighty palace site.’ Kasa no Kanamura (Man’yōshū VI: 921nagatsuki no / ariake no tsuki no / aritsutsu mo / kimi shi kimasaba / ware koime ya mo ‘The Longest Month’s / Dawntime moon— / Ever a time for parting, but / Had you come to visit, then / How I would yearn for you then!’ Hitomaro (Shūishū XIII: 795
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長月の在明の月の有りつつも君しきまさば我こひめやも
nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki no aritsutsu mo kimi shi kimasaba ware koime ya mo The Longest Month’s
Hitomaro
Original
ひとりぬるよをながづきのはなすすきそよともあきのかぜぞこたふる
hitori nuru yo o nagazuki no hanasusuki soyo to mo aki no kaze zo kotauru Sleeping alone,
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こたふともたのまざらなむはなすすきふくあきかぜのさだめなければ
kotau tomo tanomazaranamu hanasusuki fuku akikaze no sadame nakereba It may reply, but
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そよとだにしりてこたふるかぜしあらばなにかながきよおもひわぶらん
soyo to dani shirite kotauru kaze shi araba nanika nagaki yo omoiwaburan If, ‘So it is,’
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The End of Autumn.
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琴の音に声よりあはせなく虫の秋のはつるはえこそしのばね
koto no ne ni koe yori awase naku mushi no aki no hatsuru wa e koso shinobane A zither’s strains
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長月の菊にぞ人をたのみつる花ひらくとも心うつるな
nagatsuki no kiku zo hito o tanomitsuru hana hiraku tomo kokoro utsuru na In the Longest Month
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秋はぎのしたばの紅葉うつろひぬなが月のよの風のさむさに
akihagi no shitaba no momiji utsuroinu nagatsuki no yo no kaze no samusa ni The autumn bush clover’s
On regretting the passage of autumn.
なが月の在明の月のつきずのみくる秋ごとにをしきけふかな
nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki no tsukizu nomi kuru aki goto ni oshiki kyō kana In the Longest Month
夜をさむみね覚めてきけばなが月の有明の月に衣うつなり
yo o samumi nezamete kikeba nagatsuki no ariake no tsuki ni koromo utsu nari On a night so chill
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いづこにか秋はいくらん跡をだにとめてゆきせばたづねみてまし
izuko ni ka aki wa ikuran ato o dani tomete yukiseba tazune mitemashi Where might it be that
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おほかたの秋はをしめどかひもなしなのながづきをとどめてしがな
ōkata no aki wa oshimedo kai mo nashi na no nagatsuki o todomete shigana In general,
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なが月はこしひよりこそをしまるれいまはかぎりの秋とおもへば
nagatsuki wa koshi hi yori koso oshimaru ima wa kagiri no aki to omoeba The longest month’s[i]
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Right (Win)
とふ人もなきものゆゑにあぢきなくいはんまもなくをしき秋かな
tou hito mo naki mono yue ni ajikinaku iwan ma mo naku oshiki aki kana Visiting folk are
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[i] Nagatsuki 長月 (‘longest month’) was an alternate name for the Ninth Month of the lunar calendar, which was the final month of the season of autumn.
Katsura 桂
なが月の月の光のさゆるかなかつらの枝にしもやおくらん
nagatsuki no In the longest month
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