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- Kagero Nikki
Uchitokete kyō dani kikamu hototogisu shinobi mo aenu toki wa kinikeri
Let your heart be open, and let me hear it today at least — the cuckoo. The season has come when it can be hidden no longer.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Hototogisu kakure naki ne o kikasete wa kakehanarenuru mi to ya naruramu
If the cuckoo lets its voice be heard where nothing hides it, must I then become one set far apart from you?
Mono omou ni toshi henikeri tote ayamegusa kyō o tabitabi sugushite zo shiru
That the years have gone by while I brooded I learn only now, having let this day of the sweet flag come round and pass, and pass again.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Tsumorikeru toshi no ayame mo omōezu kyō mo suginuru kokoro miyureba
The pattern of these piled-up years is past my telling; for I can see the heart that lets even this day go by like the rest.
Uchi to nomi kaze no kokoro o yosumereba kaeshi wa fuku mo otoruramu kashi
Since the wind seems to set its heart inward only, toward your own side, the one that blows back in reply will surely prove the weaker.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Nagarete no toko to tanomite koshikadomo waga nakagawa wa asenikerashi mo
I came here trusting it for a bed that would go on flowing always; but this Nakagawa of mine has run shallow, it seems, and faded.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Sagoromo no tsuma mo musubanu tama no o no taemi taezumi yo o ya musubamu
The hem of the robe is left unknotted; and like a jewel's cord that breaks and does not break, shall we knot a life together?
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Tsuyu fukaki sode ni hietsutsu akasu kana tare nagaki yo no kataki naruramu
On sleeves heavy with dew I lie growing colder, and so pass the night. Who, I wonder, is the enemy that makes the long night long?
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Fuyugomori yuki ni madoishi ori sugite kyō zo kakine no ume o tazunuru
The season of being shut in, of losing my way in the snow, is over; and today at last I come seeking the plum at your hedge.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Eda wakami yuki ma ni sakeru hatsuhana wa ikani to tou ni nioi masu kana
Its branch being young, this first flower that opened in a gap of the snow takes on a deeper beauty for your asking how it does.
Kagero Nikki - Fujiwara no Tomoyasu
Waga sode no kōri wa haru mo shiranaku ni kokoro tokete mo hito no yuku kana
The ice upon my sleeve knows nothing of the spring; and yet here is one who goes on her way with her heart, and her ice, quite thawed.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Morogoe ni naku beki mono o uguisu wa mutsuki to mo mada shirazu ya aruramu
We were to have cried together, voice with voice; and yet the warbler seems not to know even now that the month of bonds has come.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Omoiki ya amatsu sora naru amagumo o sode shite wakuru yama fumamu to wa
Did I ever think that I should come to tread a mountain, parting with my own sleeve the clouds of heaven that belong to the high sky?
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Harusame ni nuretaru hana no eda yori mo hito shirenu mi no sode zo warinaki
More than the branch of blossom wetted by the spring rain, the sleeve of one whom nobody knows about is wet past all reason.
Chigiri okishi uzuki wa ikani hototogisu waga mi no uki ni kakehanaretsutsu
What is to become of the fourth month we agreed on? Cuckoo, because of my own wretchedness you keep far off, and further off still.
Nao shinobe hanatachibana no eda ya naki aoi suginuru uzuki naredomo
Wait, and endure it still: it is not that there is no orange branch left; only that the hollyhock day of meeting is past, this fourth month.
Kagero Nikki - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna