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I'm afraid I don't know who did these translations, but they're quite nice.
In this world below
where it seems a hard day's work to get through our lives,
how one envies the cool moon
dwelling so pure in the sky.
Fujiwara no Takamisu (940
- 994 A.D.)
Is there no moon?
And is this springtime not the spring of times gone by?
Myself alone remaining
still the self it was before?
Ariwara no Narihidi (825 -
880 A.D.)
Now we say farewell
to another gem-bright year,
but in falling snow there seems not a touch of spring
to be glimpsed in the sky today.
Fujiwara no Motozane (
1143 - 1166 A.D.)
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