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Kinkai wakashū 293

Gazing at the chrysanthemums in my garden on a rainy night.

露をおもみ籬のきくのほしもあへずはるればくもる村雨の空

tsuyu o omomi
magaki no kiku no
hoshi mo aezu
harureba kumoru
murasame no sora
Weighed down with dew,
The chrysanthemums by my lattice fence
Never get a chance to dry, for
Clearing skies are clouded by
A cloudburst from above.

MYS X: 2160

Composed on crickets

庭草尓 村雨落而 蟋蟀之 鳴音聞者 秋付尓家里

にはくさに むらさめふりて こほろぎの なくこゑきけば あきづきにけり

nipa kusa ni
murasame purite
koporogi no
naku kowe kikeba
akidukinikeri
Upon my garden’s grasses
A cloudburst falls, and
When the crickets’
Cries I hear,
How like autumn it is!

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