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夏草も夜の間は露にいこふらむ常にこがるる我ぞかなしき
natsukusa mo yo no ma wa tsuyu ni ikouramu tsune ni kogaruru ware zo kanashiki Upon the summer grasses
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ながめつつ人まつをりによぶこ鳥いづかたへとか立ちかへりなく
nagametsutsu hito matsu ori ni yobukodori izukata e to ka tachikaerinaku Always I gaze out
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夏の風我が袂にしつつまればおもはむ人のつとにしてまし
natsu no kaze wa ga tamoto ni shi tsutsumareba omowamu hito no tsuto ni shitemashi The summer breeze
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なつ草のしげき思ひは蚊遣火の下にのみこそもえ渡りけれ
natsukusa no shigeki omoi wa kayaribi no shita ni nomi koso moewatarikere As summer grasses
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[1] Shinchokusenshū XII: 709/Shinsen man’yōshū 79
A poem from the Poetry Contest held by the Dowager Empress during the Reign of the Kanpyō Emperor.
なつ草のしげき思ひは蚊遣火の下にのみこそもえ渡りけれ
natsukusa no shigeki omoi wa kayaribi no shita ni nomi koso moewatarikere As summer grasses
Anonymous
Summer Grasses (夏草)
夏山のすそのの草やふかからん分けくる人のそでの露けさ
natsuyama no In the summer mountains,
Tadafusa
Summer Grasses (夏草)
ひざかりはかきねがくれに立ちよらでたれを恋草もえたてるらん
izakari wa The searing summer sun
Toshiyori
Summer Grasses (夏草)
くだら野のちがやが下のひめゆりのね所人にしられぬぞうき
kudarano no On Kudara meadow,
Nakazane
Summer Grasses (夏草)
しづのめに小萩摘みてし春ののに夏は草ねを分けてやどりぬ
shizu no me ni A peasant girl
Akinaka
夏草の茂みにまじる姫百合のしられぬ恋はくるしかりけり
natsu kusa no
The summer grasses’
このころの恋の繁けく夏草の刈り掃へども生ひしくごとし
kono koro no
Recently I have been
Summer Hunting (夏猟)
夏草のしげみをわけてかりくればかくれもあへぬ鹿のむらども
natsukusa no When the summer grasses
Higo
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