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Coming out onto Tago Bay and looking up, I see snow still falling on the white peak of Fuji.

Seeing the white frost settled on the bridge the magpies are said to build, I know the night has grown late.

Gazing far across the plain of heaven — is this the same moon that rose over Mount Mikasa at Kasuga?

Since that parting when the dawn moon looked on without pity, nothing has been so bitter to me as daybreak.

At first light I took it for the dawn moon — the white snow that has fallen on the village of Yoshino.

Compared with how my heart feels now, after meeting you, I had no idea before what longing was.

To this lonely house, overgrown with layered weeds, no one comes. Yet autumn has come.

We met again, and before I could tell whether it was really you, you were gone, like the midnight moon behind cloud.

I should have gone to bed without hesitating. Instead the night deepened and I watched the moon until it sank.

Mount Oe and the road through Ikuno are far. I have never set foot there, nor even seen a letter from Amanohashidate.

If I live on, will I look back fondly even on these days? The times I thought unbearable I now miss.

I wish I could show you. Even the fisherfolk's sleeves at Ojima, soaked through, do not change colour as mine have.

My sleeves are the offshore rock that never shows even at low tide: unknown to anyone, never dry for a moment.

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