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- Makura no Soshi
Yookomete torinosoranewa hakarutomo yoniōsakano sekiwayurusaji
Though you counterfeit the cock's cry while the night is still deep, the barrier at Ōsaka will never let you through.
Makura no Soshi - Sei Shōnagon
Ōsakawa hitokoeyasuki sekinareba torinakanunimo aketematsutoka
The Ōsaka barrier is an easy one to cross; they say it stands open and waiting even before the cock has crowed.
Makura no Soshi - Fujiwara no Yukinari
Koreodani katamitoomouni miyakoniwa hagaeyashitsuru shiishibanosode
Even this I keep as a memento of him — yet in the capital, have the sleeves of the mourning robe already changed their leaves?
Watatsuumino okinikogaruru monomireba amanotsurishite kaerunarikeri
Looking at what is burning out on the open sea, I find it is only the fisherfolk coming home from their angling.
Ikanishite ikanishiramashi itsuwario soranitadasuno kaminakariseba
How, and by what means, could a lie ever be known, were there no god of Tadasu in the sky to try it?
Makura no Soshi - Empress Teishi
Ususakosa sorenimoyoranu hanayueni ukiminohodoo miruzowabishiki
Faint or deep — it has nothing to do with that; because of a flower, because of a sneeze, I am shown the wretchedness of my own standing.
Makura no Soshi - Sei Shōnagon
Minahitono hanayachōyato isoguhimo wagakokorooba kimizoshirikeru
Even on this day when everyone is caught up in flowers and butterflies, it is you who knew what was in my heart.
Makura no Soshi - Empress Teishi
Akanesasu hinimukaitemo omoiideyo miyakowaharenu nagamesuramuto
Even facing the sun in Hyūga, remember this: in the capital the rains will not clear, and I shall be gazing out at them.
Makura no Soshi - Empress Teishi
Yamachikaki iriainokaneno koegotoni kōrukokorono kazuwashiruramu
There among the hills, at each stroke of the evening bell, you must know how many times my heart has longed for you.
Makura no Soshi - Empress Teishi
Nanamagarini magarerutamano oonukite aritōshitowa shirazuyaaruramu
The cord was drawn through the jewel that winds seven ways — do they not know, then, that this is the ant that passes through?
Kakemakumo kashikokikamino shirushiniwa tsurunoyowaito narinubekikana
As a sign of the god whose name it is awe enough even to speak, I shall surely be given the long years of the crane.
Makura no Soshi - Sei Shōnagon
Sakashirani yanaginomayuno hirogorite harunoomoteo fusuruyadokana
Here the willow's brows have spread themselves out in a knowing way, and the face of spring hangs down for shame at this house.
Makura no Soshi - Sei Shōnagon
Ikanishite suginishikatao sugushikemu kurashiwazurau kinōkyōkana
However did I get through the days that are past? These last two days I can hardly get through at all.
Makura no Soshi - Empress Teishi
Kumonouemo kurashikanekeru harunohio tokorogaratomo nagametsurukana
So even above the clouds the spring days were hard to get through — and I had been gazing at them, thinking it was only where I happened to be.
Makura no Soshi - Sei Shōnagon
Watatsuumini oyaoshiirete kononushino bonsurumiruzo awarenarikeru
Having pushed his own father into the sea, this fellow now performs the Bon offering — a touching sight indeed.
Makura no Soshi - Dōmyō
Takigikoru kotowakinōni tsukinishio izaonogaewa kokonikutasamu
The gathering of firewood came to its end yesterday — so let the handle of the axe rot away here where we are.