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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Akatsuki to tsuge no makura o sobadatete kiku mo kanashiki kane no oto kana
Tilting my boxwood pillow to listen as it tells me it is dawn, I find it sad even to hear the sound of the bell.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Akatsuki no yūtsukedori zo aware naru nagaki nemuri o omou makura ni
How moving is the cock's cry at dawn, heard on my pillow as I think of the long sleep of delusion in this world.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Shokushi
Kaku bakari uki o shinobite nagaraeba kore yori masaru mono mo koso omoe
If I bear such sorrow as this and live on, I fear I shall come to suffer something even worse.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Tarachine no isameshi mono o tsurezure to nagamuru o dani tou hito mo nashi
My mother once warned me against it, yet now, as I sit idly gazing out lost in thought, no one even asks after me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Aware tote hagukumitateshi inishie wa yo o somuke tomo omowazarikemu
Long ago, when you raised me with such tender love, surely you never thought I would turn my back on the world.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gyōson
Kuraiyama ato o tazunete noboredomo ko o omou michi ni nao mayoinuru
I have climbed Rank Mountain, following the tracks of those before me, yet on the path of a parent's love for his children I still lose my way.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michichika
Mukashi dani mukashi to omoishi tarachine no nao koishiki zo hakanakarikeru
Even long ago I thought of my parent as someone of the distant past; that I still long for them now is a vain and fleeting thing.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Sasagani no ito kakarikeru mi no hodo o omoeba yume no kokochi koso sure
When I think of my lot, as frail as a hanging spider's thread, it feels as though it were all a dream.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Sasagani no sora ni sugaku mo onaji koto mataki yado ni mo ikuyo ka wa hemu
A spider spinning its web in the empty sky is no different; even in the soundest house, how many nights or lifetimes could one live?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Henjō
Hikari matsu eda ni kakareru tsuyu no inochi kiehatene to ya haru no tsurenaki
My life is a dewdrop on a branch waiting for the light; is spring so cold because it would have me vanish altogether?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Takaakira
Araku fuku kaze wa ika ni to Miyagino no kohagi ga ue o hito no toekashi
"How did you fare in the fierce wind?" You might at least have asked that after the little bush clover of Miyagino—my young child.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Akazome Emon
Utsurowade shibashi Shinoda no mori o miyo kaeri mo zo suru kuzu no urakaze
Do not let your heart change; watch the woods of Shinoda for a while, for as the wind turns the kudzu leaves back, his heart too may return.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Akazome Emon
Akikaze wa sugoku fukedomo kuzu no ha no uramigao ni wa mieji to zo omou
Though the autumn wind blows fierce and cold, I mean not to show a resentful face, like kudzu leaves turned to show their undersides.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Ozasahara kaze matsu tsuyu no kieyarazu kono hitofushi o omoioku kana
Like dew on the bamboo grass awaiting the wind, not yet quite vanished, I leave behind this one concern in my heart.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Yo no naka o ima wa no kokoro tsuku kara ni suginishi kata zo itodo koishiki
No sooner has the thought arisen that I am done with the world than the days gone by grow all the dearer to me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Yo o itou kokoro no fukaku naru mama ni suguru tsukihi o uchikazoetsutsu
As my heart that loathes the world grows ever deeper, I keep counting the months and days as they go by.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien