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- Masukagami
Tachikaeri koeyukusekito omowabaya miyakonikikishi ausakanoyama
I would like to think of it as a barrier I shall cross on the way back—this Osaka mountain whose name I used to hear in the capital.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Tsutaekiku mukashigatarizo ukarikeru sononafurinuru mikazukinomori
The tales of long ago that reach me by report are what hurt—this grove of Mikazuki, whose very name has grown old.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Samokosowa tsukihimoshiranu warenarame koromogaseshi kyōniyawaaranu
Indeed I may no longer know what day it is; yet is today not the day of the change of robes?
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo
Omoikiya urameshikarishi mononofuno nagoriokyōwa shitaubeshitowa
Did I ever think that I should be sorry today to see the last of the warriors I once resented?
Masukagami - Prince Takayoshi
Tsukuzukuto nagamekurashite iriaino kanenootonimo kimizokoishiki
I have gazed the whole day away, and at the sound of the evening bell too it is you that I long for.
Ukinimata kasanuruyumeo kikinagara odorokasademo nagekikoshikana
Another dream was laid upon that sorrow, and though I heard of it I grieved without waking you, without sending word.
Ukinimata kasanaruyumeo kikinagara odorokasadewa nadonagekiken
Another dream was laid upon that sorrow, and though you heard of it, why did you grieve without waking me?
Masukagami - The Lady of Third Rank
Wakanourani yasojiamarino yonotsuru kootomoukoeno nadokakikoenu
At Waka Bay a crane of more than eighty years cries in the night for its young: why does that voice not carry?
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Tameyo
Kumonoueni kikoezarameya wakanourani oinurutsuruno kootomoukoe
Could it fail to reach above the clouds—the voice of the aged crane at Waka Bay, crying for its young?
Masukagami - Go-Fushimi In
Wakarutomo nanikanagekan kimisumade ukifurusatoto narerumiyakoo
Though I part from it, what is there to grieve for? With my lord no longer there, the capital has become a bitter home.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Morokata
Imawatote inochiokagiru wakarejiwa nochinoyonarade itsuotanoman
On this parting road we set the limit of a life; if not in the world to come, what time is left to hope for?
Masukagami - The Lady of the House
Nagaraete miwaitazurani hatsushimono okukatashiranu yonimofurukana
Living on to no purpose, like the first frost that has no settled place, I pass my days in a world where I have nowhere to set myself.
Masukagami - Minamoto no Yukiyuki
Imawahaya ikaninarinuru ukimizoto onajiyonidani touhitomonashi
What has become of this wretched self by now? Not one person, even in the same world, comes to ask.
Masukagami - Minamoto no Yukiyuki
Kaerubeki tokishinakereba koreyakono yukuokagirino ausakanoseki
Since there will be no time to return, this then is the barrier of Osaka, which I cross for the last time.
Masukagami - Minamoto no Yukiyuki
Kiekakaru tsuyunoinochino hatewamitsu satemoazumano suezoyukashiki
I have seen the end of this dew-frail life; and yet how I long to know what becomes of the east.
Masukagami - Minamoto no Yukiyuki
Kokorozasu kataotowabaya naminoueni ukitetadayou amanotsuribune
I would like to ask where you are bound, little fishing boat floating and drifting out on the waves.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Daigo