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- Gosen Wakashu
Akikaze no fukikuru yoi wa kirigirisu kusa no ne goto ni koe midarekeri
On evenings when the autumn wind comes blowing, the crickets' voices rise in a tangle from the roots of every grass.
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Waga gotoku mono ya kanashiki kirigirisu kusa no yadori ni koe taezu naku
Are you as full of sorrow as I am, cricket, that you cry without ceasing in your lodging in the grass?
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Komu to iishi hodo ya suginuru aki no no ni tare matsumushi zo koe no kanashiki
Has the time passed when someone promised to come? In the autumn fields, whom does the pine cricket wait for, that its voice is so sad?
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Aki no no ni kiyadoru hito mo omohoezu tare o matsumushi kokora nakuran
I cannot think that anyone will come to lodge in the autumn fields—so whom are the pine crickets waiting for, crying so ceaselessly?
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Akikaze no yaya fukishikeba no o samumi wabishiki koe ni matsumushi zo naku
As the autumn wind blows harder little by little, the fields grow cold, and the pine crickets cry in desolate voices.
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Aki kureba nomose ni mushi no orimidaru koe no aya o ba tare ka kiruran
When autumn comes, the insects weave a brocade of voices in tangles across the whole breadth of the fields—who, I wonder, will wear it?
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Motoyoshi
Kaze samumi naku akimushi no namida koso kusaba irodoru tsuyu to okurame
The tears of autumn insects, crying because the wind is cold—those must be what settle as dew, coloring the grass and leaves.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Akikaze no fukishiku matsu wa yama nagara nami tachikaeru oto zo kikoyuru
The pines where the autumn wind blows without ceasing stand in the mountains, yet what I hear is the sound of waves rising and breaking.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Matsu no ne ni kaze no shirabe o makasete wa Tatsutahime koso aki wa hikurashi
Entrusting the wind's melody to the sound of the pines, it must be Tatsutahime, goddess of autumn, who plays the koto in the fall.
Gosen Wakashu - Mibu no Tadamine
Yamazato no mono sabishisa wa ogi no ha no nabiku goto ni zo omoiyararuru
Each time the reed leaves bend before the wind, my thoughts go out to the loneliness of your mountain village.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneyori
Ho ni wa idenu ika ni ka semashi hanasusuki mi o akikaze ni sute ya hatemu
My love has shown itself like a plume of pampas grass—what shall I do? Shall I cast myself away for good to the autumn wind, like the swaying grass?
Gosen Wakashu - Ono no Michikaze
Akekurashi moru tanomi o karasetsutsu tamoto sohotsu no mi to zo narinuru
From dawn to dusk I guarded the rice I had trusted in, only to let another reap it—and now I have become a scarecrow with sleeves soaked through.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kokoro mote ouru yamada no hitsujiho wa kimi mamoranedo karu hito mo nashi
The second-growth ears that sprout of their own accord in the mountain field—though you do not guard them, no one comes to reap them.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kusa no ito ni nuku shiratama to mietsuru wa aki no musuberu tsuyu ni zo arikeru
What looked like white jewels strung on threads of grass was the dew that autumn had tied there.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Morifumi
Akigiri no tachinuru toki wa Kurabuyama obotsukanaku zo miewatarikeru
When the autumn mists have risen, Mount Kurabu, already dark by its name, looks dim and blurred as far as the eye can see.
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Hanami ni to idenishi mono o aki no no no kiri ni mayoite kyō wa kurashitsu
I set out to see the flowers, yet lost my way in the mist of the autumn fields and spent the whole day there.
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki