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- Shui Wakashu
Yamashina no yama no iwane ni matsu o uete tokiwa kakiwa ni inoritsuru kana
Planting a pine by the roots of the rocks on the hill of Yamashina, I prayed that you might endure, firm and unchanging as the rock itself.
Shui Wakashu - Taira no Kanemori
Koe takaku mikasa no yama zo yobau naru ame no shita koso tanoshikaru rashi
Mount Mikasa seems to be calling out in a loud voice; all under heaven must surely be living in joy.
Shui Wakashu - Chūsan
Iro kaenu matsu to take to no sue no yo o izure hisashi to kimi nomi zo min
Of the pine and the bamboo that never change their color, which will last longer through the ages to come—you alone shall see.
Shui Wakashu - Saigū no Naishi
Hitofushi ni chiyo o kometaru tsue nareba tsuku tomo tsukiji kimi ga yowai wa
Since this is a staff with a thousand ages sealed in each joint, however often you lean on it, your years will never run out.
Shui Wakashu - Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto
Kimi ga yo o nani ni tatoen sazareishi no iwao to naran hodo mo akaneba
To what shall I compare your life? Even the long time it takes for pebbles to grow into a great rock would not satisfy me.
Shui Wakashu - Kiyohara no Motosuke
Aoyagi no midori no ito o kurikaeshi ikura bakari no haru o henu ran
Like the green threads of the willow wound again and again, how many springs have passed by?
Shui Wakashu - Kiyohara no Motosuke
Waga yado ni sakeru sakura no hanazakari chitose miru tomo akaji to zo omou
The cherry blossoms in full bloom at my house—even if I gazed at them for a thousand years, I think I would never tire of them.
Shui Wakashu - Taira no Kanemori
Kimi ga tame kyō kiru take no tsue nareba mata mo tsukisenu yoyo zo komoreru
Since this is a staff of bamboo cut today for your sake, within its joints are sealed age upon age that will never run out.
Shui Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Kuraiyama mine made tsukeru tsue naredo ima yorozuyo no saka no tame nari
Though this is the staff with which you climbed to the very peak of the Mount of Rank, now it is for climbing the slope of ten thousand ages.
Shui Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Fuku kaze ni yoso no momiji wa chirikuredo kimi ga tokiwa no kage zo nodokeki
Though the autumn leaves of other trees come scattering on the blowing wind, the shade of your evergreen remains calm and serene.
Shui Wakashu - Ono no Yoshifuru
Yorozuyo mo nao koso akane kimi ga tame omou kokoro no kagiri nakereba
Even ten thousand ages would still not be enough, for the heart that thinks of you has no limit.
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Kintada
Ōzora ni muretaru tazu no sashinagara omou kokoro no arige naru kana
The cranes flocking in the wide sky, all together as they are, seem to have something in their hearts.
Shui Wakashu - Ise
Haru no no no wakana naranedo kimi ga tame toshi no kazu o mo tsuman to zo omou
Though they are not the young greens of the spring fields, for your sake I mean to gather and pile up the number of your years.
Shui Wakashu - Ise
Sakurabana koyoi kazashi ni sashinagara kakute chitose no haru o koso heme
Wearing cherry blossoms in my hair tonight just as they are, so would I pass a thousand springs.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Morosuke
Katsu mitsutsu chitose no haru o sugusu tomo itsu ka wa hana no iro ni aku beki
Even if I spent a thousand springs gazing at them all the while, when could I ever tire of the color of the blossoms?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Michitose ni naru chō momo no kotoshi yori hana saku haru ni ainikeru kana
The peach said to bear fruit once in three thousand years has, from this year on, met with the spring in which its blossoms open.
Shui Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune