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- Manyoshu
Amatobu ya kari no tsubasa no ōiba no izuku morite ka shimo no furikemu
The wild geese flying through the sky cover it with their wings—so from what gap did the frost leak through to fall?
Akiyama no shitai ga shita ni naku tori no koe dani kikaba nani ka nagekamu
Like the birds singing beneath the crimson trees of the autumn hills—if I could hear even your voice, why should I grieve?
Manyoshu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Tazo kare to ware o na toi so nagatsuki no tsuyu ni nuretsutsu kimi matsu ware o
Do not ask of me, "Who is that?"—I, soaked by the dew of the Ninth Month, waiting for you.
Manyoshu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Aki no yo no kiri tachiwatari ōhoshiku ime ni zo mitsuru imo ga sugata o
As the autumn night's mist spreads over everything, so dimly did I see in a dream the figure of my beloved.
Manyoshu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Aki no no no obana ga ure no oinabiki kokoro wa imo ni yorinikeru ka mo
As the tips of the pampas grass in the autumn fields grow and bend, so my heart has leaned toward my beloved.
Manyoshu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Akiyama ni shimo furiōi ko no ha chiri toshi wa yuku tomo ware wasureme ya
Frost falls and covers the autumn mountains, the leaves scatter, and though the year may pass, how could I ever forget?
Manyoshu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Suminoe no kishi o ta ni hari makishi ine kakute karu made awanu kimi ka mo
The rice I sowed in the field I broke along the shore of Suminoe is now ready to reap—and still you have not come to meet me.
Tachi no shiri tamamaki tai ni itsu made ka imo o aimizu iegoi oramu
Among the fields of Tamamaki, how long must I stay without seeing my wife, longing for home?
Aki no ta no ho no ue ni okeru shiratsuyu no kenubeku mo wa wa omōyuru ka mo
Like the white dew lying on the ears of rice in the autumn fields, I feel as though I am about to vanish away.
Aki no ta no homuki no yoreru katayori ni ware wa mono omou tsurenaki mono o
Like the ears of rice in the autumn fields leaning all to one side, I brood on you alone—though you are so cold to me.
Akita karu kariio o tsukuri iori shite aruramu kimi o mimu yoshi mo ga mo
You must be staying in the makeshift hut you built for reaping the autumn fields—if only there were some way for me to see you.
Tazu ga ne no kikoyuru tai ni iori shite ware tabi nari to imo ni tsuge koso
Tell my wife that I have built a hut and lodge among the fields where the cranes' cries are heard—that I am on a journey.
Harugasumi tanabiku tai ni io tsukite akita karu made omowashimuraku
Since I built my hut by the fields where the spring haze trailed, you have made me long for you all the way until the autumn harvest.
Tachibana o moribe no sato no kadota wase karu toki suginu koji to surashi mo
The time to reap the early rice in the field by the gate at Moribe village has passed—it seems he means not to come.
Akihagi no sakichiru nobe no yūtsuyu ni nuretsutsu kimase yo wa fukenu tomo
Come to me, even if you are soaked by the evening dew in the fields where the autumn bush clover blooms and scatters—even if the night grows late.
Irozukau aki no tsuyujimo na furi so ne imo ga tamoto o makanu koyoi wa
O autumn dew and frost that color all things, do not fall—not tonight, when I cannot pillow my head on my beloved's arm.