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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Mutsumaji to kimi wa shiranami mizugaki no hisashiki yo yori iwaisometeki
You may not know how dearly I hold you, yet since an age as ancient as the sacred fences of this shrine, I have been blessing and guarding you.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sumiyoshi Deity (per the left note)
Hito shirezu ima ya ima ya to chihayaburu kamisaburu made kimi o koso mate
Unknown to anyone, I waited for you, thinking now, now surely, until I grew ancient and hallowed with the passing years.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kasuga Deity (per the left note)
Michi tōshi hodo mo haruka ni hedatareri omoi okose yo ware mo wasureji
The road is long, and the distance between us vast. Send your thoughts to me from afar; I, too, will never forget you.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kumano Deity (per the left note)
Omou koto mi ni amaru made naru taki no shibashi yodomu o nani uramuran
What you wish for will be granted beyond your deserving. Why resent it if, like a roaring waterfall pausing in a pool, your fortune lingers for a while?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kumano Deity (per the left note)
Ware tanomu hito itazura ni nashihateba mata kumo wakete noboru bakari zo
If I were to let those who rely on me come to nothing, I would have no choice but to part the clouds once more and return to heaven.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kamo Deity (per the left note)
Kagami ni mo kage mitarashi no mizu no omo ni utsuru bakari no kokoro to o shire
Know that your heart is as plain to me as a reflection in a mirror, as a shadow cast on the surface of the Mitarashi stream.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kamo Deity (per the left note)
Arikitsutsu kitsutsu miredomo isagiyoki hito no kokoro o ware wasureme ya
I wander about and come again and again to look upon the world, yet could I ever forget a pure and untainted human heart?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Iwashimizu Hachiman Deity (per the left note)
Nishi no umi tatsu shiranami no ue ni shite nani sugusuran kari no kono yo o
Upon the white waves rising on the western sea—why do you spend your days there, in this fleeting, borrowed world?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Usa Hachiman Deity (per the left note)
Shiranami ni Tamayorihime no koshi koto wa nagisa ya tsui ni tomari nariken
Was it because this shore was to be her final harbor that Tamayorihime came riding in upon the white waves?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ōe no Chifuru
Hisakata no ame no yaegumo furiwakete kudarishi kimi o ware zo mukaeshi
You who came down from heaven, parting the clouds piled eightfold high—it was I who went out to welcome you.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Yoshimochi
Tobikakeru ama no iwafune tazunete zo Akitsushima ni wa miya hajimekeru
Seeking out where the heavenly rock-boat had flown down through the sky, he first built his palace here in the land of Akitsushima.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Mimune no Masahira
Yamatokamo umi ni arashi no nishi fukaba izure no ura ni mifune tsunagan
Yamatokamo! If a storm should blow from the west across the sea, in which bay shall we moor the sacred ship?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Mimune no Masahira
Oku shimo ni iro mo kawaranu sakakiba no ka o ya wa hito no tomete kitsuran
Is it the fragrance of the sakaki leaves, whose color does not change even under the settling frost, that people have sought out in coming here?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Miyabito no sureru koromo ni yūdasuki kakete kokoro o tare ni yosuran
The courtiers, with sacred bark-cloth cords slung across their printed robes—upon whom do they set their hearts?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Kamikaze ya Mimosusogawa no sonokami ni chigirishi koto no sue o tagau na
O god of the divine wind, do not let the end of the vow made long ago, at the headwaters of the Mimosuso River, go awry.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Chigiri arite kyō Miyagawa no yūkazura nagaki yo made mo kakete tanoman
Bound by a fate from former lives, I come today to the Miya River; like the bark-cloth garland I put on, I will hold you in my heart and trust in you through ages long to come.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika