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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Fuku kaze ni hanatachibana ya niouran mukashi oboyuru kyō no niwa kana
Is it the scent of orange blossoms on the blowing wind? This garden today brings the past back to mind.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Yami fukaki ko no moto goto ni chigiri okite asa tatsu kiri no ato no tsuyukesa
Leaving a pledge beneath each tree where darkness lay deep, he departed like mist rising at dawn—and how wet with dew is all that remains.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Kyō suginu inochi mo shika to odorokasu iriai no kane no koe zo kanashiki
Today has passed, and life, too, wanes just so—the sunset bell that startles me into this knowing sounds so sorrowful.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Kusa fukaki kariba no ono o tachiidete tomo madowaseru shika zo naku naru
Having left the deep grass of the hunting moor, a deer that has lost its companions is crying—I hear its voice.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sokaku
Somukazu wa izure no yo ni ka meguriaite omoikeri tomo hito ni shiraren
If I did not turn from the world, in what life could we meet again, and how could you ever know that I truly cared for you?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Aimite mo mine ni wakaruru shirakumo no kakaru kono yo no itowashiki kana
Like white clouds that meet only to part at the peak, this world where such partings hang over us—how wearisome it is!
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Suehiro
Oto ni kiku kimi gari itsu ka iki no matsu matsuran mono o kokorozukushi ni
When will I go to you, whose name I have heard? Like the pines of Iki, you must be waiting for me with all your heart in far Tsukushi.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Wakarenishi sono omokage no koishiki yume ni mo mieyo yama no ha no tsuki
I long for the face of the one from whom I parted—appear to me at least in dreams, O moon at the mountain's rim.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Watatsumi no fukaki ni shizumu isari sede tamotsu kai aru nori o motomeyo
Do not fish in ways that sink you into the ocean's depths; seek instead the Law that is truly worth keeping.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Ukikusa no hitoha naritomo isogakure omoi na kake so okitsu shiranami
Even if it is but a single leaf of floating weed hidden among the rocks, do not set your heart on it, you white waves of the offing.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Saranu dani omoki ga ue ni sayogoromo waga tsuma naranu tsuma na kasane so
On a life already heavy enough, do not layer the hems of your night robes with one who is not your own wife.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Hana no moto tsuyu no nasake wa hodo mo araji ei na susume so haru no yamakaze
The dew-brief kindness beneath the blossoms cannot last; do not urge me to drink, O mountain wind of spring.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuzen
Uki o nao mukashi no yue to omowazu wa ika ni kono yo o uramihatemashi
Had I not thought my sorrows the fruit of a former life, how utterly I would have resented this world!
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Nijoin no Sanuki
Watasubeki kazu mo kagiranu hashibashira ika ni tatekeru chikai naruran
Bridge pillars meant to carry across beings beyond all counting—how could such a vow ever have been raised?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Ima zo kore irihi o mite mo omoikoshi mida no mikuni no yūgure no sora
Now, here it is at last—the evening sky over Amida's land that I imagined each time I watched the setting sun.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Inishie no onoe no kane ni nitaru kana kishi utsu nami no akatsuki no koe
How like the bell on the mountain peak I heard long ago—this voice of waves breaking on the shore at dawn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei