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Shunzei-kyō no musume-shū 23

Between the pines

大かたの秋もさびしき木の間より月もる松を風はらふらん

ōkata no
aki mo sabishiki
ko no ma yori
tsuki moru matsu o
kaze harauran
In general
Autumn is also lonely when
From between the trunks
Moonlight pours as the pines
Seem swept by the breeze.[i]

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[i] See. Topic unknown. このまよりもりくる月の影見れば心づくしの秋はきにけり ko no ma yori / morikuru tsuki no / kage mireba / kokorozukushi no . aki wa kinikeri ‘Between the trees / Drips moon / Light, seeing it I know / Heart draining / Autumn, has come at last.’ Anonymous (Kokinshū IV: 184)

SIS XX: 1284

In the summer, he sent this to his daughter, the Fifth Imperial Princess, attached to some lingering yellowed oak leaves.

時ならでははその紅葉ちりにけりいかにこのもとさびしかるらん

toki narade
FaFaso no momidi
tirinikeri
ika ni ko no moto
sabisikaruran
‘Tis not the season, but
The oaks’ leaves have yellowed and
Scattered;
Beneath the trunks
How lonely it must be…

His Majesty, the Tenryaku Emperor