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Browsing for art late at night, I came across this beautiful poem by Yoshitoshi, said to be his death poem:
yo o tsumete
terimasarishi wa
natsu no tsuki
translated as:
holding back the night / with its increasing brilliance / the summer moon
...which I'd like to be able to write. How is this written? Which kana and kanji are used?
This was originally a comment to point out that it may not have been written with the kana/kanji in use today, but I realized it's an example of an alternative way to write it:
It's a painting of Yoshitoshi that was published by another artist in the same month he died.
The source transcribes it the same way it's written in silvermaples answer.
Here it is:
夜{よ}をつめて照{てり}まさりしか夏{なつ}の月{なつ}
I found it here (near the bottom), and it seems to have "ka" where what you found says "wa"...I've found other romaji versions with "wa", so I'm not sure which is correct...
