Waka Poems in Shin Kokin Wakashu (English Translation & Romaji)

Hotaru tobu nosawa ni shigeru ashi no ne no yonayona shita ni kayou akikaze

Where the fireflies fly over the marshy field, the autumn wind passes night after night below, among the roots of the thick reeds.

Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune

In the shade of the low hills where the hisagi grow it had been blowing all along, keeping out of sight: the evening wind of autumn.

Within the fence, that seems to have been plaited out of white dew like jewels, the pinks have light added to them as well.

Shin Kokin Wakashu - Retired Emperor Takakura

Are they the words the white dew left behind in kindness, these moonflowers that showed so faintly in the dusk?

Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Former Chancellor

At dusk I light the lamp by the reeds at my eaves, and an autumn that has not yet come into ear speaks to me from below.

Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Shokushi

Cloud drifts, and the evening holds autumn folded in it; and above the reeds the wind too has not yet come into the open.

At the mountain village the rain cloud has broken off the ridge, and the evening is cool with the dew under the cypresses.

By the rock spring where the water is drawn, the beads roll across the dwarf bamboo, and little by little the evening dew of autumn is forming.

Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kanezane

The wild pear at Ou puts out its one branch; and whether the fruit sets or not, whether autumn comes or not, the wind goes through me.

One side of my summer robe has turned cool. Has the night grown late? It is the sky where summer and autumn meet.

The fan that summer's ending puts aside, and autumn's white dew: which of the two will be set down first?

Shin Kokin Wakashu - Mibu no Tadamine

Looking at the shallows where the purification is made, I find that as the day draws to evening the waves are rising.