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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Yamakage ni sumanu kokoro wa ika nare ya oshimarete iru tsuki mo aru yo ni
What kind of heart is it that will not dwell in the shade of the mountains—when even the moon, though people grieve to see it go, sinks into the hills in this world of ours?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Tachiidete tsumagi orikoshi kataoka no fukaki yamaji to narinikeru kana
The little hill where I used to step out to gather brushwood has become, with the years, a path deep in the mountains.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Okuyama no odoro ga shita mo fumiwakete michi aru yo zo to hito ni shirasen
Even beneath the tangled thickets of the deep mountains I will tread a way through, and let the people know that this is an age in which the true Way prevails.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Go-Toba In
Nagaraete nao kimi ga yo o matsuyama no matsu to seshi ma ni toshi zo henikeru
Living on, I still wait for my lord's reign, like the pines of Matsuyama—and while I meant to wait, the years have gone by.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Nijoin no Sanuki
Ima wa tote tsumagi korubeki yado no matsu chiyo o ba kimi to nao inoru kana
Now that I have left the world, the pine by my hut is only fit to be cut for firewood—yet I still pray that its thousand years may be my lord's.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Warenagara omou ka mono o to bakari ni sode ni shigururu niwa no matsukaze
So much that I wonder whether I myself am lost in brooding, the wind in the garden pines brings showers of tears onto my sleeves.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ariie
Yo o somuku tokoro to ka kiku okuyama wa monoomoi ni zo irubekarikeru
The deep mountains I had heard were the place to renounce the world—they were a place to enter into brooding, I find.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Dōmyō
Yo o somuku kata wa izuku ni arinubeshi ōharayama wa sumiyokariki ya
There must be somewhere to renounce the world—but tell me, was Mount Ōhara good to live in?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Omou koto ōharayama no sumigama wa itodo nageki no kazu o koso tsume
On Mount Ōhara, where cares are many, the charcoal kilns only heap up more and more logs of grief.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Nun of Shōshōi
Tare sumite aware shiruran yamazato no ame furisusamu yūgure no sora
Who lives there, I wonder, knowing the depth of its feeling—the evening sky over a mountain village where the rain beats wildly down?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Shiori sede nao yama fukaku wakeiran uki koto kikanu tokoro ari ya to
Without breaking twigs to mark the path, I will push still deeper into the mountains, seeking a place where no word of sorrow reaches me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Kazashi oru miwa no shigeyama kakiwakete aware to zo omou sugi tateru kado
Pushing through the dense groves of Mount Miwa, where one breaks sprays for adornment, I am moved to the heart by the gate where the cedars stand.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Inpumon-in no Taifu
Itsu to naki ogura no yama no kage o mite kurenu to hito no isogu naru kana
Seeing the shadow of Mount Ogura, always dim whatever the hour, people seem to think night has fallen and hurry to leave.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Dōmyō
Saga no yama chiyo no furumichi ato tomete mata tsuyu wakuru mochizuki no koma
Following the trace of the ancient road of a thousand ages in the Saga hills, the horses of Mochizuki once again part the dew beneath the full moon.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Sahogawa no nagare hisashiki mi naredomo ukise ni aite shizuminuru kana
Though I come of a line that has flowed long like the Saho River, I have met with bitter shoals and sunk beneath the waters.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadazane
Kakaru se mo arikeru mono o ujigawa no taenu bakari mo nagekikeru kana
There was such a shoal of joy as this, and yet I grieved as though my stream, like the Uji River, would run dry.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kaneie