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- Shika Wakashu
Omou koto nakute sugitsuru yo no naka ni tsui ni kokoro o todometsuru kana
In this world, through which I had passed without a single care, I have at last let my heart settle on someone.
Tsune yori mo tsuyukekarikeru koyoi kana kore ya aki tatsu hajime naruramu
Tonight is wetter with dew than ever before; could this be the beginning of autumn — the first sign that you are tiring of me?
Shika Wakashu - The Lady Kii of Princess Yushi's Household
Sekitomuru iwama no mizu mo onozukara shita ni wa kayou mono to koso kike
I have heard that even water dammed among the rocks will find its own way through underneath; so too our hearts, though kept apart, should reach each other beneath the surface.
Au koto wa mabara ni ameru Iyosudare iyoiyo ware o wabisasuru kana
Our meetings are as sparse as the weave of an Iyo blind, and more and more they leave me to grieve.
Shika Wakashu - Egyō
Izuku o mo yogaruru koto no warinaki ni futatsu ni wakuru waga mi tomo gana
It is so hard to fail any one of them on any night that I wish my body could be split in two.
Morotomo ni okiiru tsuyu no nakariseba tare to ka aki no yo o akasamashi
If it were not for the dew that lies awake with me, with whom could I pass this autumn night until dawn?
Shika Wakashu - Akazome Emon
Kitari tomo nuru ma mo araji natsu no yo no ariake no tsuki mo katabukinikeri
Even if you came now, there would be no time for us to sleep; the dawn moon of this short summer night has already begun to sink.
Shika Wakashu - Sone no Yoshitada
Konu hito o urami mo hateji chigiri okishi sono koto no ha mo nasake narazu ya
I will not resent to the end the one who does not come; were not even those words of promise a kindness in themselves?
Shika Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Yūgure ni mono omou koto wa masaru ya to ware narazaramu hito ni towaba ya
I would like to ask someone other than myself whether the sorrows of love grow heavier at dusk.
Shika Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Namida sae idenishi kata o nagametsutsu kokoro ni mo aranu tsuki o mishi kana
With tears spilling too, I kept gazing toward where you had gone, and so, without meaning to, I found myself looking at the moon.
Shika Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Tsurashi tote ware sae hito o wasurenaba saritote naka no tae ya hatsu beki
If I too forgot you because you are cold to me, would it be right, even so, for our bond to break off completely?
Shika Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto ya namida no tama no o naruramu shibashi tayureba ochite midaruru
Are our meetings the cord that strings the jewels of my tears? For when they break off even for a while, the tears fall and scatter.
Mikarino no shibashi no koi wa samo araba are sorihatenuru ka yakatao no taka
A brief love on the royal hunting moor — let it end as it will; but have you truly flown off for good, my hawk with the arrow-shaped tail?
Take no ha ni arare furu nari sarasara ni hitori wa nu beki kokochi koso sene
I hear hail falling on the bamboo leaves; at its rustling, sarasara, I feel I could never sleep alone tonight.
Shika Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Arifuru mo kurushikarikeri nagaraenu hito no kokoro o inochi tomo gana
Going on living has proved nothing but pain; if only my life could be as short as your heart, which never lasts.
Shika Wakashu - Sagami
Uki nagara sasuga ni mono no kanashiki wa ima wa kagiri to omou narikeri
Though our love brought me only pain, I am still somehow sad — because I think that this, now, is the end.
Shika Wakashu - Kiyohara no Motosuke