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神ぢ山月さやかなるちかひありてあめのしたをばてらすなりけり
kamiji yama
Above sacred Kamiji Mountain
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宮ばしらしたついはねにしきたてゝつゆもくもらぬ日のみかげ哉
miyabashira
The shrine pillars
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When Jakuren and others urged him to compose a hundred poem sequence, he refused and went off on a pilgrimage to Kumano; on the way, he had a dream that all else might fade, but that poetry would be something lasting through the end of the world; thinking that he must give a reason for composing the poems to Superintendant Tankai and Toshinari of the third rank, when he awakened he hurriedly composed them and sent them off, writing this in the wrapping.
すゑのよもこのなさけのみかはらずと見し夢なくはよそにきかまし
sue no yo mo
At the world’s end
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なさけありしむかしのみ猶しのばれてながらへまうき世にもふるかな
nasake arishi
I had feelings
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なに事にとまる心のありければさらにしも又よのいとはしき
nanigoto ni
Some how
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いかゞすべきよにあらばやはよをもすてゝあなうのよやとさらにおもはん
ikaga subeki
What is for the best?
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身のうさをおもひしらでやゝみなましそむくならひのなきよなりせば
mi no usa o
My sorrow:
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世をいとふ名をだにもさはとゞめをきてかずならぬ身のおもひいでにせん
yo o itou
Hating this world and
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またれつる入あひのかねのをとすなりあすもやあらばきかんとすらん
mataretsuru
I await
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月のゆく山に心をゝくりいれてやみなるあとの身をいかにせん
tsuki no yuku
The moon heads
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