The short summer nights: while it seems yet early evening, it has already dawned, but where in the clouds, then, does the moon lodge, I wonder?
Kiyohara no Fukayabu
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
The short summer nights: while it seems yet early evening, it has already dawned, but where in the clouds, then, does the moon lodge, I wonder?