夕月夜入江に塩や滿ちぬらん芦のうら葉の鶴の諸聲
| yūzukuyo irie ni shio ya michinuran ashi no uraba no tazu no morogoe |
On moonlit nights In the inlet do the tides Reach their peak, perhaps? From the reed tips comes The calling of the cranes. |
Tag Archives: tazu
SKKS X: 897
Written when on a visit to the province of Ise in the tenth month of the twelfth year of Tenpyō (743).
いもにこひわかの松ばらみわたせばしほひのかたにたづなきわたる
| imo ni koi waka no matsubara miwataseba shioi no kata ni tazu nakiwataru |
Thinking of my love, At Matsubara in Waka, As I look out Across the mud-flats A crane’s cry drifts across, and I go weeping on my way. |
Emperor Shōmu (701-756, r. 724-749)