Moon Viewing 月見

Shin Kokinshu VI: 648 Winter

2008-09-18T05:20:00.000-07:00

As the late night sandpipers'

Cries draw near

The Narumi Marshes,

The salt tide rises

In the setting moon

Shosamme Sueyoshi (??~??)

小夜千鳥

声こそ近く

鳴海潟

傾く月に

潮や満つらん

正三位季能 (??~??)

Floating Bridge of Dreams 　夢の浮橋

2008-09-17T06:41:00.001-07:00

Shinkokinshu 1:38 新古今集
Spring’s night’s
Floating bridge of dreams
Fades away,
Scattering on the peaks
In a cloud banked sky　

Fujiwara Teika (1162-1241)

春の夜の
夢の浮橋
とだえして、
峰に別るる
横雲の空

藤原定家 (1162-1241)

Song of the Moon 月の和歌 Kokinshu #184 古今集184月の和歌

2008-08-12T11:54:00.000-07:00

When I can see the moonlight

Come trickling between the tree branches,

Thoughts anticipating autumn are at end

木の間より 漏りくる

月の影みれば 心づくしの

秋はきにけり

[Shin Kokinshu], Autumn Songs, Volume II, 491 『新古今集』秋下・491。

2008-08-08T11:34:00.001-07:00

100 Shinkokinshu Selections (East Asian Poetry Translation Series, Volume IV)

The passing shower’s raindrops
Still droop from the needles of the pines,
Mists rise in the lonesome autumn dusk

The Monk Jakuren (Fujiwara no Sadanaga) (1139-1202)

村雨の　
露もまだひぬ　
まきの葉に　
霧たちのぼる　
秋の夕暮れ

寂蓮法師 (藤原定長) (1139-1202)

Man'yōshū #208 萬葉集

2008-08-06T07:01:00.000-07:00

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In autumn mountains
brimming with yellowed leaves,
seeking my lost love,
I also lose track of the mountain path.

Kakimoto Hitomaro (c. 662-710)

原文: 秋山之黄葉乎茂迷流妹乎将求山道不知母

よみ:

秋山の

黄葉を茂み

惑ひぬる

妹を求めむ

山道知らずも

柿本人麻呂 (c. 662-710)

Pear Blossoms 梨の花

2008-08-06T05:48:00.000-07:00

in the pear blossoms

is a woman

reading a love letter in moonlight

Buson (1716-1764)

梨の花

月に書ミよむ

女有り

蕪村 (1716-1764)

Unbent by the Rain ｢雨ニモマケズ｣

2008-08-05T11:16:00.000-07:00

Unbent by the rain;
Unbent by the wind;
Unbent by the snow or summer’s heat;
With robust body;
Unselfish;
Never angry;
Ever gently smiling;
With just four cups of brown rice a day
and some miso and a few vegetables;
Doing each and every thing
Unselfishly, uncalculatingly;
Seeing, listening, understanding well;
Unforgetting;
Living in the shade of a grove of pines in a field
In a tiny thatched roof hut;
Who if there were a sick child to the east,
Would go nurse him well;
If there were an exhausted mother to the west,
Who’d go and carry a bundle of rice stalks for her;
If there were someone near death to the south,
Who’d go and tell her not to fear;
If there were quarrels and disputes to the north,
Who’d go tell them to stop squabbling over trifles;
Who sheds tears in times of drought;
Who walks uneasily when summer’s cold;
Who’s called a nobody by everyone;
Who’s neither praised
Nor of a ‘certain’ place;
This is the sort of person
I
Want to be!

Miyazawa Kenji (1896-1933)

雨ニモマケズ
風ニモマケズ
雪ニモ夏ノ暑サニモマケヌ
丈夫ナカラダヲモチ
慾ハナク
決シテ瞋ラズ
イツモシヅカニワラツテヰル
一日ニ玄米四合ト
味噌ト少シノ野菜ヲタベ
アラユルコトヲ
ジブンヲカンジヨウニ入レズニ
ヨクミキキシワカリ
ソシテワスレズ
野原ノ松ノ林ノ陰ノ
小サナ萱ブキノ小屋ニヰテ
東ニ病気ノコドモアレバ
行ツテ看病シテヤリ
西ニツカレタ母アレバ
行ツテソノ稲ノ束ヲ負ヒ
南ニ死ニサウナ人アレバ
行ツテコハガラナクテモイヽトイヒ
北ニケンクワヤソシヨウガアレバ
ツマラナイカラヤメロトイヒ
ヒデリノトキハナミダヲナガシ
サムサノナツハオロオロアルキ
ミンナニデクノボウトヨバレ
ホメラレモセズ
クニモサレズ
サウイフモノニ
ワタシハ
ナリタイ

宮沢賢治 (1896-1933)