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- Kagero Nikki
Kanashiku mo omoi tayuru ka isonokami sawaranu mono to narahishi mono o
Sadly, then — is this the end of your thinking of me? In the old days I was used to rain being no hindrance at all.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Ōhako no kami no tasuke ya nakarikemu chigirishi koto o omoikaeru wa
Was there no help, then, from the god of Ōhako? For you turned over in your mind what you had promised — and turned, and went home again.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Shimotsuke ya oke no futakura o ajikinaki kage mo ukabanu kagami to zo miru
Shimotsuke, and its Futara: this bucket lid I look at instead, and find it a bitter mirror in which no face appears.
Sashiidetaru futakura o mireba mi o sutete konomu wa tama no konu to sadametsu
Looking at the lid you held out to me, I have settled it: though one throw oneself away in wanting, no jewel will come.
Hisashi to wa obotsukanashi ya karagoromo uchikite naremu sate okurase yo
That it should take so long makes me uneasy. Let me put the robe on and wear it soft — come, have it sent to me now.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Kaneie
Wabite mata toku to sawagedo kai nakute hodo furu mono wa kaku koso arikere
At my wits' end I hurried and unpicked and hurried again, and it came to nothing: whatever the years pass over turns out to be like this.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Seki koete tabine naritsuru kusamakura karisome ni hata omōenu kana
Crossing the barrier, I came to a night's lodging on a pillow of grass; and yet it does not seem to me a thing of one night only.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Kaneie
Obotsukana ware ni mo aranu kusamakura mada koso shirane kakaru tabine wa
I am uncertain. This pillow of grass, on which I was not myself — such a night's lodging as this I have not known before.
Okisouru tsuyu ni yonayona nurekoshi wa omoi no naka ni kawaku sode ka wa
These sleeves, wet night after night with dew that settles and settles again — are they sleeves that would dry even in the midst of such a fire?
Kata toki ni kaeshi yokazu o kazoureba shigi no moroha mo tayushi to zo naku
Counting up the nights you turned away in a moment, I find the snipe crying that even both its wings have grown weary with the reckoning.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Ikanare ya shigi no hanegaki kaki shirazu omou kai naki koe ni nakuramu
How can it be? The snipe, not knowing the count of its own wing-strokes, cries in a voice for which all that thinking was to no purpose.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Kaneie
Omoisome mono o koso omoe kyō yori wa aoi haruka ni nari ya shinuramu
I have begun to love, and to be full of thought; and from this day on, will the day of meeting be far off from me?
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Warinaku mo sugi tachinikeru kokoro kana miwa no yamamoto tazune hajimete
Past all reason my heart has grown and stood up tall, since I first came seeking the foot of Mount Miwa.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Miwa no yama machi miru koto no yuyushisa ni sugi tateri to mo e koso shirasene
To wait and look for you at Miwa would be ill-omened; so, even if a cedar stands there, I cannot let you know of it.
Kakurenu ni oisomenikeru ayamegusa shiru hito nashi ni fukaki shitane o
In the hidden marsh it began to grow, the sweet flag; and with no one to know of them, these roots that reach so deep below.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Ayamegusa ne ni arawaruru kyō koso wa itsuka to machishi kai mo arikere
Today the sweet flag shows itself, root and sound at once; and all that waiting, all that asking when, has not been for nothing.