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Akinoiroo okurimukaete kumonoueni narenishitsukimo monowasuresuna
Moon that saw the colours of autumn out and welcomed them in, moon grown familiar above the clouds: do not forget those days.
Masukagami - Tsuchimikado In
Akazarishi tsukimosakosowa omourame furukinamidamo wasurarenuyoo
The moon that never had enough must think as you do, of an age whose old tears cannot be forgotten.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Teika
Azumajino kataninakosono sekinonawa kimiomiyakoni sumetonarikeri
The barrier on the eastern road is called Do-Not-Come; its name was telling you all along to live in the capital.
Masukagami - Jien
Miyakoniwa kiminiausaka chikakereba nakosonosekiwa tōkitooshire
In the capital the barrier of Meeting, where I meet you, is close by; so know that the barrier of Do-Not-Come lies far off.
Masukagami - Minamoto no Yoritomo
Yamawasake umiwaasenan yonaritomo kiminifutagokoro wagaarameyamo
Though the mountains should split and the seas run dry, would I ever be of two hearts toward my lord? Never.
Masukagami - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Ukiyoniwa kakaretotekoso umarekeme kotowarishiranu waganamidakana
It must be that I was born into this bitter world to be just as I am; yet my tears, which know nothing of such reasoning, keep falling.
Masukagami - Tsuchimikado In
Warekosowa niijimamoriyo okinoumino arakinamikaze kokoroshitefuke
I am the new keeper of this island. Rough waves and winds of the Oki sea, blow with some care.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Onajiyoni matasuminoeno tsukiyamin kyōkosoyosoni okinoshimamori
Shall I see, in this same life, the clear moon over Suminoe again? Today I am set apart, the keeper of Oki island.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Urayamashi nagakihikageno haruniaite shiokumuamamo sodeyahosuran
How I envy them. Now that the long light of spring has come, even the folk who draw the brine must be drying their sleeves.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Ayamefuku kayaganokibani kazesugite shidoroniotsuru murasamenotsuyu
Sweet-flag is laid on the reed-thatched eaves; the wind goes through, and the drops of the passing shower fall scattered and uneven.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Furusatoo wakarejiniouru kuzunohano akiwakuredomo kaeruyomonashi
The arrowroot leaves grow along the road that took me from my old home; autumn comes and turns them over, but no season will turn me back again.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Tarachineno kieyaradematsu tsuyunomio kazeyorisakini ikadetowamashi
My mother waits like dew that has not yet vanished. Before the wind can take her, how I long to go to her.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Yaoyorozu kamimoawareme tarachineno wagamachiento taenutamanoo
Gods in your eight million, have pity: pity the thread of her life, which my mother keeps unbroken so that she may wait for me.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Nezameshite kikanuokikite wabishikiwa arisonamino akatsukinokoe
What is desolate, waking in the night to hear what one never heard before, must be the daybreak voice of the waves on the rough shore.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Namimanaki okinokojimano hamabisashi hisashikunarinu miyakohedatete
On a small island of Oki, where the waves never rest, are the shore-side eaves; and long, how long it has grown, with the capital set far away.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Kogarashino okinosomayama fukishiori arakushiorete monoomoukoro
The winter wind bends the timber hills of Oki as it passes; and roughly bowed like them, I pass these days in brooding.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In