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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Koto no ha no naka o nakunaku tazunureba mukashi no hito ni aimitsuru kana
As I searched in tears among the leaves of words, I came to meet again the one who lived long ago.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Mibu no Tadami
Hitorine no koyoi mo akenu tare to shimo tanomaba koso wa konu mo uramime
This night too has dawned while I slept alone. If I were relying on someone in particular, I might resent that he did not come—but there is no one.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tametada
Kusa wakete tachiiru sode no ureshisa ni taezu namida no tsuyu zo koboruru
For joy at the sleeves of my son as he parts the grass and rises and kneels in homage, the dew of my tears spills down without end.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Akazome Emon
Ureshisa wa wasure ya wa suru shinobugusa shinoburu mono o aki no yūgure
How could I forget this gladness? Like the fern whose name means remembering, I recall it fondly in the autumn dusk.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ise no Taifu
Akikaze no oto sezariseba shiratsuyu no noki no shinobu ni kakaramashi ya wa
Had the autumn wind made no sound, would the white dew ever have come to rest on the shinobu fern of your eaves?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Tsunenobu
Shinobugusa ika naru tsuyu ka okitsuramu kesa wa ne mo mina arawarenikeri
What sort of dew has settled on the shinobu fern? This morning even its roots—my secret nights—have all been laid bare.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Naritoki
Asajiu o tazunezariseba shinobugusa omoiokikemu tsuyu o mimashi ya
Had I not visited that place overgrown with low reeds, would I ever have seen the dew laid with deep feeling on the shinobu fern?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Asateru
Nagaraemu to shimo omowanu tsuyu no mi no sasuga ni kiemu koto o koso omoe
I have no wish to linger on in this dewdrop of a life, and yet I cannot help thinking of how it will fade away.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsuyu no mi no kieba ware koso sakidatame okuremu mono ka mori no shitakusa
If a life like dew must vanish, surely I will be the one to go first. Would I, old as the grass beneath the forest trees, be the one left behind?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Koma no Myōbu
Inochi sae araba mitsubeki mi no hate o shinobamu hito no naki zo kanashiki
If only I live, I will surely see how my life ends, and it grieves me that there will be no one then to remember me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Sadame naki mukashigatari o kazoureba waga mi mo kazu ni irinubeki kana
As I count over tales of the past in this uncertain world, it seems that I too must soon be numbered among the dead.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gyōson
Yo no naka no hareyuku sora ni furu shimo no ukimi bakari zo okidokoro naki
Like frost falling from a sky that is clearing over the world, my wretched self alone has no place to settle.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Tanomikoshi waga furudera no koke no shita ni itsushika kuchimu na koso oshikere
Beneath the moss of the old temple I have long relied upon, my name will rot away before long, and this I regret.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Kurikaeshi waga mi no toga o motomureba kimi mo naki yo ni meguru narikeri
Searching over and over for my own fault, I find it is that I still go on living in a world where my lord is no more.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gyōson
Ushi to iite yo o hitaburu ni somukaneba mono omoishiranu mi to ya narinamu
Though I call the world wretched, I do not wholeheartedly turn my back on it; will I become one who knows nothing of the way of things?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kiyohara no Motosuke
Somukedomo ame no shita o shi hanareneba izuku ni mo furu namida narikeri
Though I have turned from the world, I cannot leave the land beneath heaven, and so wherever I am my tears fall like rain as I pass my days.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet