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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Hito sumanu fuwa no sekiya no itabisashi arenishi nochi wa tada aki no kaze
The board eaves of the Fuwa barrier house, where no one lives—since they fell to ruin, there is only the autumn wind.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Ama obune toma fukikaesu urakaze ni hitori akashi no tsuki o koso mire
In the bay wind that flips back the rush mats of the fishers' little boat, I stay up alone through the night at Akashi, gazing at the moon.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Waka no ura o matsu no hagoshi ni nagamureba kozue ni yosuru ama no tsuribune
As I gaze out over Waka Bay through the needles of the pines, the fishers' boats seem to come drifting in among the treetops.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Mizu no e no yoshino no miya wa kamisabite yowai taketaru ura no matsukaze
The Yoshino palace at Mizu no E has grown hallowed with age, and the wind in the pines by the bay blows as though it too had grown old.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sueyoshi
Imasara ni sumiushi tote mo ikaga sen nada no shioya no yūgure no sora
Even if I find it hard to live here now, what can I do? Only the evening sky over the salt huts on the shore.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Ōyodo no ura ni tatsu nami kaerazu wa matsu no kawaranu iro o mimashi ya
Had I not come back, as the waves rising at Ōyodo Bay return, would I ever have seen again the unchanging green of the pines?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Kishi
Matsu hito wa kokoro yuku tomo sumiyoshi no sato ni to nomi wa omowazaranan
Those who wait for you there may be content, but do not think of Sumiyoshi as the only good place to live.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Go-Reizei
Sumiyoshi no matsu wa matsu tomo omōede kimi ga chitose no kage zo koishiki
I cannot think the pines of Sumiyoshi are waiting for me; it is the shelter of your thousand-year reign that I long for.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kenshi
Uchiyosuru nami no koe nite shiruki kana fukiage no hama no aki no hatsukaze
By the voice of the breaking waves it is plain to know: the first wind of autumn has come to the shore of Fukiage.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Hafuribe no Narinaka
Okitsu kaze yosamu ni nare ya tago no ura no ama no moshiobi taki masaruran
Has the offshore wind brought the chill of night? At Tago Bay the fisherfolk's salt-weed fires seem to be burning higher.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Echizen
Miwataseba kasumi no uchi mo kasumikeri keburi tanabiku shiogama no ura
As I look out, even within the haze it is hazier still: Shiogama Bay, where the smoke of the salt fires trails.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Kyō tote ya isona tsumuran iseshima ya ichishi no ura no ama no otomego
Is it because today is the day, that they gather greens along the shore? The fisher girls of Ichishi Bay in the land of Ise.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Suzukayama ukiyo o yoso ni furisutete ika ni nariyuku waga mi naruran
Crossing Mount Suzuka, I have shaken off this weary world as nothing to do with me—yet what will become of me now?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Yo no naka o kokoro takaku mo itou kana fuji no keburi o mi no omoi nite
With a lofty heart I turn away from this world, taking the smoke of Mount Fuji as the fire of my own longing.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Kaze ni nabiku fuji no keburi no sora ni kiete yukue mo shiranu waga omoi kana
Like the smoke of Mount Fuji bending in the wind and vanishing into the sky, my longing drifts on, not knowing where it will go.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Toki shiranu yama wa fuji no ne itsu tote ka kanoko madara ni yuki no fururan
The mountain that knows no season is the peak of Fuji: what time does it think it is, that snow should fall on it in dapples like a fawn's coat?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ariwara no Narihira