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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Waka no ura ya okitsu shioai ni ukabiizuru aware waga mi no yorube shiraseyo
O Bay of Waka! Show me, ah, a shore on which to rest this self of mine, risen to the surface where the tides of the offing meet.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Sono yama to chigiranu tsuki mo akikaze mo susumuru sode ni tsuyu koboretsutsu
Though I have pledged myself to no particular mountain, the moon and the autumn wind urge me toward one, and the dew of tears keeps spilling on my sleeves.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Kimi ga yo ni aeru bakari no michi wa aredo mi o ba tanomazu yukusue no sora
There is the path of having met my lord's reign, and that alone; but I place no trust in myself, and the sky of my future is uncertain.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Masatsune
Oshimu tomo namida ni tsuki mo kokoro kara narenuru sode ni aki o uramite
Though I grieve at autumn's passing, the moon too, of its own accord, lodges in my tears and, on the sleeves it has grown familiar with, seems to resent the departing autumn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Daughter of Fujiwara no Shunzei
Ukishizumi komu yo wa sate mo ika ni zo to kokoro ni toite kotaekanenuru
Leaving aside this world of rising and sinking, what of the world to come? I ask my own heart, and cannot answer.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Ware nagara kokoro no hate o shiranu kana suterarenu yo no mata itowashiki
Though it is my own, I cannot tell where my heart will end; the world I cannot cast away is, all the same, loathsome to me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Oshikaeshi mono o omou wa kurushiki ni shirazugao nite yo o ya sugimashi
Brooding on things over and over is so painful that I wonder whether I should simply pass my days in the world with a face that knows nothing.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Nagaraete yo ni sumu kai wa nakeredomo uki ni kaetaru inochi narikeri
Though there is no worth in living on and dwelling in this world, this life of mine is one I have paid for with sorrows.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Cloistered Prince Shukaku
Yo o sutsuru kokoro wa nao zo nakarikeru uki o ushi to wa omoishiredomo
I find that, after all, I never had the heart to cast off the world, though I know full well that what is bitter is bitter.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kanemune
Suteyaranu waga mi zo tsuraki saritomo to omou kokoro ni michi o makasete
It pains me that I cannot bring myself to cast away the world, leaving the path of the Buddha to a heart that thinks, "Still, some day."
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinhira
Ukinagara areba aru yo ni furusato no yume o utsutsu ni samashikanetemo
Wretched though it is, while I live I pass my years in the world as it is, unable to wake from the dream of my old home into reality.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ukinagara nao oshimaruru inochi kana nochi no yo tote mo tanomi nakereba
Wretched as it is, how dear this life still seems to me—for even the world to come offers nothing I can rely on.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Moromitsu
Saritomo to tanomu kokoro no yukusue mo omoeba shiranu yo ni makasu ramu
Even the future of the heart that trusts, "Still, some day," is, when I think of it, left to a world whose course no one can know.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kamo no Shigeyasu
Tsukuzuku to omoeba yasuki yo no naka o kokoro to nageku waga mi narikeri
When I think it through, the world is easy enough to live in; it is I who, of my own heart, make myself grieve.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Arakida no Naganobu
Kawabune no noboriwazurau tsunadenawa kurushikute nomi yo o wataru kana
Like the tow rope hauled hand over hand by a river boat struggling upstream, I cross through this world with nothing but hardship.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yorisuke
Oiraku no tsukihi wa itodo hayasegawa kaeranu nami ni nururu sode kana
The months and days of old age run ever faster, like a swift stream, and my sleeves are wet in its waves that never return.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kakuben