Love as a Month Passes 経月恋
三日月のいづるをみれば君にあはでみそかあまりになりにけるかな
mikazuki no
izuru o mireba
kimi ni awade
misoka amari ni
narinikeru kana | The crescent moon’s
Rise I see, so
Without meeting you, my love,
About thirty days
Have passed! |
Daishin
Love as a Month Passes 経月恋
衣手もくちはてぬべしあふことの月をへだててとはぬうらみに
koromode mo
kuchihatenubeshi
au koto no
tsuki o hedatete
towanu urami ni | Even my sleeves
Must have rotted all away!
For we met and then
A month has passed
Without a word – how I hate you for it! |
Higo
Love as a Month Passes 経月恋
かちそむるしかまのみそのかれはててあひみて過ぎし神無月かな
kachi somuru
shikama no miso no
karehatete
aimite sugishi
kaminazuki kana | Fresh dyed dark indigo
At Shikama, the robes after thirty days
Are done drying;
Since we met, I have passed
The entire Godless Month! |
Kanemasa
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
Love as a Month Passes 経月恋
かきたえて三月になりぬこれやさは心づくしのかどでなるらん
kakitaete
mitsuki ni narinu
kore ya sa wa
kokorozukushi no
kadode naruran | At painful length
The Third Month has arrived;
Is this how it’s to be?
A heart-breaking
Departure? |
Toshiyori
Love as a Month Passes 経月恋
衣手もなかにはしばしおかざりき月をへだつる君やなになり
koromode mo
naka ni wa shibashi
okazariki
tsuki o hedatsuru
kimi wa nani nari | Even upon my sleeves, or
Within, has it for a while
Not come to rest:
That moon – while it has interfered
What of you, my love? |
Nakazane
Love as a Month Passes 経月恋
あはぬ夜のかずやはつもるいかなればたちぬる月といふはくるしき
awanu yo no
kazu ya wa tsumoru
ika nareba
tachinuru tsuki to
iu wa kurushiki | When nights without a meeting
Mount up in number,
What am I to do, for
The very passage of the moon
Does bring me pain… |
Akinaka
'Simply moving and elegant'