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Kokinshu #166
Sunday, 20 November 2011 10:54 Written around dawn on a night the moon was lovely.
On those summer nights
when it still seems late evening
but then it is dawn,
where in the clouds, I wonder,
is the moon finding lodgings?
natsu no yo wa
mada yoi nagara
akenuru o
kumo no izuku ni
tsuki yadoruramu
---L.
On those summer nights
when it still seems late evening
but then it is dawn,
where in the clouds, I wonder,
is the moon finding lodgings?
—19? November 2009, rev 3 April 2010, 14 October 2011
Original by Kiyowara no Fukayabu. Previously posted as Hyakunin Isshu #36 but revised since. A momentary return to the short summer nights theme -- the conceit being that, what with the night being so short, the moon shouldn't have the time to cross the whole sky so must instead be setting ("lodging") behind a cloud. "Seems" is interpretive.natsu no yo wa
mada yoi nagara
akenuru o
kumo no izuku ni
tsuki yadoruramu
---L.