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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Nagamureba koromode suzushi hisakata no ama no kawara no aki no yūgure
Gazing at it, I find my sleeves gone cool: the riverbed of heaven, an autumn evening.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Shokushi
Ikabakari mi ni shiminuramu tanabata no tsuma matsu yoi no ama no kawakaze
How it must go through her: the wind off the River of Heaven, on the evening when the Weaver waits for her lord.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kanezane
Hoshiai no yūbe suzushiki ama no kawa momiji no hashi o wataru akikaze
On the cool evening of the stars' meeting, the autumn wind goes across the bridge of maple leaves over the River of Heaven.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintsune
Tanabata no ause taesenu ama no kawa ikanaru aki ka watarisomekemu
The River of Heaven, across which their meeting has never failed: in what autumn did they first begin to cross it?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Wakuraba ni ama no kawanami yoru nagara akuru sora ni wa makazu mogana
Once in a long while the waves of the River of Heaven bring them together for a night; would that it were not left to the brightening sky.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Kishi
Itodoshiku omoi kenubeshi tanabata no wakare no sode ni okeru shiratsuyu
The thought of it will surely make me vanish: the white dew lying on the sleeve of the Weaver's parting.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Tanabata wa ima ya wakaruru ama no kawa kawagiri tachite chidori naku nari
Is the Weaver parting from him now? Mist is rising from the River of Heaven, and plovers seem to be calling.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Kawamizu ni shika no shigarami kaketekeri ukite nagarenu akihagi no hana
The deer has set a weir across the water: the autumn clover floats there and will not go downstream.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Oe no Masafusa
Karikoromo ware to wa suraji tsuyu fukaki nohara no hagi no hana ni makasete
I shall not dye this hunting robe myself: I leave it to the clover of the moor, where the dew lies deep.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Yorimasa
Akihagi o oradewa sugiji tsukikusa no hanasurigoromo tsuyu ni nuru tomo
I will not go past without breaking a spray of autumn clover, though the robe I dyed with dayflower be soaked with dew.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Yoen
Hagi ga hana masode ni kakete Takamado no onoe no miya ni hire furu ya tare
With clover blossom laid across both sleeves, who was it waving her scarf at the palace on the ridge of Takamado?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Monk Kensho
Oku tsuyu mo shizugokoro naku akikaze ni midarete sakeru Mano no hagihara
Even the dew that settles has no rest, and in the autumn wind they bloom all in confusion: the clover fields of Mano.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Lady Kii of Princess Yushi's Household
Akihagi no sakichiru nobe no yūtsuyu ni nuretsutsu kimase yo wa fukenu tomo
Come to me through the evening dew of the moor where the autumn clover blooms and falls, wet as you will be, and late as the night may be.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Saoshika no asa tatsu nobe no akihagi ni tama to miru made okeru shiratsuyu
On the autumn clover of the moor where the stag rises at morning, the white dew lies until it looks like strung beads.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Otomo no Yakamochi
Aki no no o wakeyuku tsuyu ni utsuritsutsu waga koromode wa hana no ka zo suru
Pushing through the autumn moor, the scent has passed into the dew and from the dew to me: my sleeves smell of the flowers.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Tare o ka mo Matsuchi no yama no ominaeshi aki to chigireru hito zo aru rashi
Whom is she waiting for, the maidenflower on Matsuchi hill? There must be one she promised to meet in autumn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ono no Komachi