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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Ōzora ni teru hi no iro o isametemo ame no shita ni wa tare ka sumubeki
Though you forbid the color of the sun that shines in the great sky, who then could go on living beneath the heavens?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Nyokurōdo Takumi
Kaku shitsutsu yūbe no kumo to narimoseba aware kaketemo tare ka shinobamu
If I should go on like this and become the evening clouds, who would remember me, even with a word of pity?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Suo no Naishi
Omowanedo yo o somukamu to iu hito no onaji kazu ni ya ware mo naru ramu
There are people who say they will turn from the world without truly meaning it; am I, too, becoming one of their number?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Kazu naranu mi o mo kokoro no mochigao ni ukarete wa mata kaerikinikeri
As though it owned this worthless self of mine, my heart wanders off and then comes back to it again.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Oroka naru kokoro no hiku ni makasetemo sate sa wa ika ni tsui no omoi wa
Even if I go on leaving everything to where my foolish heart is drawn, what then will become of my thoughts at the very end?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Toshitsuki o ikade waga mi ni okurikemu kinō no hito mo kyō wa naki yo ni
How have I managed to live out all these months and years, in a world where someone here yesterday is gone today?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Ukegataki hito no sugata ni ukabiidete korizu ya tare mo mata shizumubeki
Having risen into a human form, so hard to be granted, will everyone, never learning, sink down once again?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Somukitemo nao uki mono wa yo narikeri mi o hanaretaru kokoro naraneba
Even after I have turned away from it, the world is still what grieves me, for my heart has not been parted from my body.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Mi no usa o omoishirazu wa ikaga semu itoinagara mo nao sugusu kana
If I did not know the sorrow of my own life, there would be nothing to be done; yet knowing it, loathing the world, I still go on living in it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Nanigoto o omou hito zo to hito towaba kotaenu saki ni sode zo nurubeki
If someone were to ask, "What is it that this man broods over?" surely my sleeves would be wet with tears before I could answer.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Itazura ni suginishi koto ya nagekaremu ukegataki mi no yūgure no sora
Will I grieve that I have let my days pass in vain? So I think, gazing at the evening sky in this human form so hard to be granted.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Uchitaete yo ni furu mi ni wa aranedomo aranu suji ni mo tsumi zo kanashiki
Though I am not one who lives wholly in the world, it grieves me that I commit sins even along paths I never thought of.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Yamazato ni chigirishi io ya arenuramu mataremu to dani omowazarishi o
Has the hut in the mountain village where I vowed to live fallen into ruin? I never even thought it would be left waiting for me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Sode ni oku tsuyu o ba tsuyu to shinobu tomo nareyuku tsuki ya iro o shiru ramu
Though I hide the dew on my sleeves, calling it nothing but dew, does the moon, which grows ever more familiar, know its true color?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michitomo
Kimi ga yo ni awazu wa nani o tama no o no nagaku to made wa oshimareshi mi o
Had I not lived to see my lord's reign, for what would I have wished my life to be long and held this self so dear?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Ōkata no aki no nezame no nagaki yo mo kimi o zo inoru mi o omou tote
Even through the long autumn nights when all lie wakeful, I pray for my lord, precisely because I think of my own life.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka