Love as a Month Passes 経月恋
あひみての後も五月をいむとてやみそかにだにも音せざるらん
aimite no nochi mo satsuki o imu tote ya misoka ni dani mo otosezaruran | We met and Then for the Fifth Month Would refrain, did you say? Yet even now the thirtieth day has come, There’s not a sound from you! |
Tadafusa
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郭公鳴くやさ月の短夜も一人し寝れば明しかねつも
Fototogisu
naku ya satuki no
mizika yo mo
Fitori si nureba
akasikanetu mo |
A cuckoo
Calls on a Fifth Month’s
Brief night;
Sleeping alone, yet
The dawn brings only pain… |
Anonymous
鵜川には皐月の闇もなかりけりくだればくだす舟の篝火
ukawa ni wa
satsuki no yami mo
nakarikeri
kudareba kudasu
fune no kagaribi |
To the cormorant river
The Fifth Month’s dark
Has not come;
For when it falls, also do
The boats’ torches! |
Shunzei
'Simply moving and elegant'