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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Tsuki mo senu hikari no ma ni mo magirenade oite kaereru kami no tsurenasa
Not lost even in the light of your endless glory, the hair ornament has come back to me in my old age; how unfeeling it is.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Masako
Kawaru ramu koromo no iro o omoiyaru namida ya ura no tama ni magawamu
As I think of your robe, whose color must now have changed, will my tears be mistaken for the jewel sewn inside its lining?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kenshi
Magau ramu koromo no tama ni midaretsutsu nao mada samenu kokochi koso sure
My heart is thrown into turmoil by the jewel in my robe that your tears are said to resemble, and I feel that even now I have not yet awakened.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shōshi
Shio no ma ni yomo no uraura tazunuredo ima wa waga mi no iu kai mo nashi
While the tide is out I search the shores in every direction for shells, but now there is nothing worth saying about one such as I.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Inishie no ama ya keburi to narinu ramu hitome mo mienu Shiogama no ura
Have the fisherfolk of long ago turned into the smoke of their salt fires? Not a single person can be seen on the Bay of Shiogama.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teishi
Miyako yori kumo no yae tatsu okuyama no Yokawa no mizu wa sumiyokaru ramu
In the deep mountains, far from the capital beyond eightfold layers of cloud, are the waters of Yokawa clear, and is it good to live there?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Momoshiki no uchi nomi tsune ni koishikute kumo no yae tatsu yama wa sumiushi
I long always for nothing but the palace, and these mountains, where the clouds rise in eightfold layers, are a sorrowful place to live.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Takamitsu
Yume ka tomo nani ka omowamu ukiyo o ba somukazarikemu hodo zo kuyashiki
Why should I think it a dream? What I regret is only the time I spent without turning my back on this world of sorrow.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Prince Koretaka
Kumoi tobu kari no ne chikaki sumai ni mo nao tamazusa wa kakezu ya arikemu
Even though I live where the cries of geese flying through the clouds sound close by, it seems you still have sent me no letter.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Kishi
Shiratsuyu wa okite kawaredo momoshiki no utsurou aki wa mono zo kanashiki
White dew settles and changes the colors of the leaves each year, but this autumn, when the palace itself is changing, is sorrowful beyond words.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ise
Amatsukaze Fukei no ura ni iru tazu no nadoka kumoi ni kaerazaru beki
The crane that stands at the Bay of Fukei, where the heavenly wind blows—how could it fail to return to the clouds above?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyotada
Inishie no nareshi kumoi o shinobu to ya kasumi o wakete kimi tazunekemu
Was it out of longing for the palace you knew so well in the old days that you parted the spring haze and came to visit?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ōyodo no ura ni karihosu mirume dani kasumi ni taete kaeru karigane
Even the seaweed cut and dried at Ōyodo Bay is lost to sight in the haze, and the wild geese fly off homeward.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Hamachidori fumioku ato no tsumorinaba kai aru ura ni awazarame ya wa
If the tracks the beach plovers leave behind—your brushstrokes—pile up, how could you fail to come upon a shore with shells, a reward worth the labor?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Go-Shirakawa
Takitsuse ni hito no kokoro o miru koto wa mukashi ni ima mo kawarazarikeri
To see in the rushing falls the heart of the one who made them—this has not changed from the old days to the present.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Go-Suzaku
Asakaranu kokoro zo miyuru Otowagawa sekiireshi mizu no nagare naranedo
A heart that is anything but shallow shows itself here, though this is not the flowing water of the Otowa River channeled in.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Suo no Naishi