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Orokanaru kokoroyamien masukagami furukisugatani tachiwaoyobade
Will my poor understanding show through? This clear mirror of mine cannot stand beside the noble shape of the old mirrors.
Imamomata mukashiokakeba masukagami furinuruyoyono atonikasanen
Since the past is being set down once more, let this clear mirror be laid on the record of those worn old generations.
Kamiyoyori kyōnotametoya yatsukahoni nagatanoineno shinaisomekemu
Was it for this very day, ever since the age of the gods, that the rice of Nagata began to bow with the weight of its long ears?
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Kanemitsu
Okuyamano odoronoshitamo fumiwakete michiaruyozoto hitonishirasen
I will push through even the briars deep in the mountains, and let people know that this is an age in which there is a way.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Miwataseba yamamotokasumu minasegawa yūbewaakito naniomoikemu
I look out and the foot of the mountain is veiled in haze above the Minase River. Why did I ever believe that evening was the season of autumn?
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Ariekemu motonochitoseni furimosede wagakimichigiru minenowakamatsu
Unaged by the thousand years it must already have lived, the young pine on the ridge with which my lord binds his long promise.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Teika
Kimigayoni sekiiruruniwao yukumizuno iwakosukazuwa chiyomomiekeri
In my lord's reign the water led into the garden runs on, and in the number of rocks it passes over one can see a thousand ages.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Teika
Usukukoki nobenomidorino wakakusani atomademiyuru yukinomuragie
On the young grass of the meadow, green now pale and now deep, one can still see the very traces of where the snow melted away in patches.
Masukagami - Kunaikyo
Isonokami furukioimani narabekoshi mukashinoatoo matatazunetsutsu
The old I have set beside the new, going back once more and again to the traces the ancients left.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Shikishimano hauminishite hiroishitamawa migakarenikeri
The leaves of Shikishima became a sea, and the jewels gathered from it have been polished to a shine.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Suganoneno nagaranoyamano minenomatsu fukikurukazemo yorozuyonokoe
The wind that comes blowing through the pines on the ridge of Nagara mountain is itself a voice praising ten thousand reigns.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Sukezane
Kasugayama kozonoyayoino hananokani someshikokorowa kamizoshiran
The god alone must know how the scent of last year's blossoms on Kasuga hill dyed my heart.
Masukagami - Emperor Juntoku
Akashigata urajihareyuku asanagini kirinikogiiru amanotsuribune
In the morning calm the shore road at Akashi is clearing, and a fisherman's boat rows away into the mist.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Chigiriokishi yamanokonohano shitamomiji someshikoromoni akikazezofuku
The low leaves of the mountain kept the colour they had promised, and now the autumn wind blows across the robe they dyed.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Saritomoto omoukokorozo naofukaki taedetaeyuku yamagawanomizu
Even so, I still hope, and that hope runs deeper than ever: like the water of a mountain stream that thins yet never ceases to flow.
Masukagami - Jien
Kimioinoru kokorofukakuba tanomuran taetewasarani yamagawanomizu
If the heart that prays for my lord runs deep, then surely you may trust in it: broken off, the mountain stream flows again.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Teika