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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Murasaki no kumoji ni sasou koto no ne ni ukiyo o harau mine no matsukaze
To the sound of a koto beckoning along the path of purple clouds, the pine wind on the peak sweeps this sorrowful world away.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Kore ya kono ukiyo no hoka no haru naran hana no toboso no akebono no sora
Is this, then, the spring beyond the sorrowful world? The door of the lotus opens on the sky at dawn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Haru aki ni kagiranu hana ni oku tsuyu wa okure sakidatsu urami ya wa aru
For the dew that rests on flowers that bloom beyond spring and autumn, can there be any grief at being left behind or going first?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Tachikaeri kurushiki umi ni oku ami mo fukaki e ni koso kokoro hikurame
Even the net cast again into the sea of suffering must be drawn, heart and all, toward the deep inlet—toward those bound to us by deep ties.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Izuku ni mo waga nori naranu nori ya aru to sora fuku kaze ni toedo kotaenu
Is there anywhere a law other than the Buddha's Law? I ask the wind that blows across the sky, but it gives no answer.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Omou na yo ukiyo no naka o idehatete yadoru oku ni mo yado wa arikeri
Do not think it ends there: even beyond the place you lodge after leaving this sorrowful world behind, there is another lodging still.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Washi no yama kyō kiku nori no michi narade kaeranu yado ni yuku hito zo naki
Save by the path of the Law preached on Vulture Peak and heard today, no one goes to the lodging from which none return.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Oshinabete munashiki sora to omoishi ni fuji sakinureba murasaki no kumo
I had thought it all an empty sky, but now that the wisteria blooms, there are the purple clouds.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Oshinabete ukimi wa sa koso narumigata michihiru shio no kawaru nomi ka wa
All sorrowful lives become like this; at Narumi Bay, is it only the flooding and ebbing tide that changes?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Retired Emperor Sutoku
Asahi sasu mine no tsuzuki wa megumedomo mada shimo fukashi tani no kagegusa
Along the peaks lit by the morning sun, all is budding, yet frost still lies deep on the grasses in the valley's shade.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Retired Emperor Sutoku
Soko kiyoku kokoro no mizu o sumasazu wa ikaga satori no hachisu o mo min
Unless you make the water of your heart clear to its very depths, how could you ever see the lotus of enlightenment?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kujō Kanezane
Sarazu tote iku yo mo araji iza ya sawa nori ni kaetsuru inochi to omowan
Even otherwise, I would not live for ages; come, then, let me think of this as a life exchanged for the Law.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsuneie
Fukaki yo no mado utsu ame ni oto senu wa ukiyo o noki no shinobu narikeri
What makes no sound in the rain beating on the window deep in the night is the shinobu fern on the eaves of one who has withdrawn from the world, silently enduring.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Inishie no shika naku nobe no iori ni mo kokoro no tsuki wa kumorazariken
Long ago, even in a hut on the moor where the deer cried, the moon of his heart must never have been clouded.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Michinobe no hotaru bakari o shirube nite hitori zo izuru yūyami no sora
With only the fireflies by the wayside as my guide, I set out alone beneath the dark evening sky.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Kumo harete munashiki sora ni suminagara ukiyo no naka o meguru tsuki kana
With the clouds cleared, the moon dwells shining in the empty sky, and yet it circles on through this sorrowful world.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen