Left (Win).
思ひいでよ誰がきぬぎぬの暁も我またしのぶ月ぞ見ゆ覧
| omoi’ide yo ta ga kinuginu no akatsuki mo ware mata shinobu tsuki zo miyuran |
Remember, While with a rustle of robes, you part from her At dawn! I still remember you, Gazing at the selfsame moon… |
133
Right.
久方の月ぞかはらで待たれける人には言ひし山の端の空
| hisakata no tsuki zo kawarade matarekeru hito ni wa iishi yama no ha no sora |
‘The eternal Moon, unchanging Is awaited,’ I said once to him, Sky clear above the mountains’ edge. |
134
Sent to [his aunt] Princess Shokushi from a mountain retreat at dawn in the Longest Month.
おもひやれなにをしのぶとなけれどもみやこおぼゆるありあけの月
| omoiyare nani o shinobu to nakeredomo miyako oboyuru ariake no tsuki |
Imagine, if you will, Of note, to recollect I have nothing, yet The capital I recall With the moon at dawn. |
Prince Kore’akira
Love at daybreak, from the Poetry Competition at the house of the Regent and Grand Minister.
つれなさのたぐひまでやはつらからぬ月をもめでじありあけの空
| tsurenasa no tagui made ya wa tsurakaranu tsuki o mo medeji ariake no sora |
Coldness: Is that with whom you dwell? I cannot bear it, and Would not praise the moon In the sky at dawn |
Ari’ie
有家
Part of a hundred-poem sequence, composed in the conception of the start of autumn.
このねぬるよのまに秋はきにけらしあさけの風のきのふにもにぬ
| kono nenuru yo no ma ni aki wa kinikerashi asake no kaze no kinō ni mo ninu | While I slept, In one night’s space, Autumn Has come, it seems: Dawn’s breezes Are not as those of yesterday. |
Fujiwara no Suemichi
When he composed five poems at the house of the Regent and Grand Minister.
またや見んかたのゝみのゝ櫻がり花の雪ちる春のあけぼの
| mata ya min katano no mino no sakuragari hana no yuki chiru haru no akebono |
When might I see the like again? In Katano’s august field, In search of cherry, A blizzard of blossom falls This Spring dawn. |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成
When he was talking to someone in secret, other people in the house created a disturbance, so he returned home and sent this to her:
曉と何か言ひけむ別るれば夜ゐもいとこそわびしかりけれ
| akatuki to nani ka iFikemu wakarureba yowi mo ito koso wabisikarikere |
About the dawn, What can I say? But parting At night is far more Painful. |
Tsurayuki
貫之