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- Kinyo Wakashu
Kore ni shiku omoi wa naki o kusamakura tabi ni kaesu wa inamushiro to ya
There is no love to equal mine, yet you send me back like a traveler on the road; is that your 'no', spread out like a straw mat?
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinzane
Au to mite utsutsu no kai wa nakeredomo hakanaki yume zo inochi narikeru
Though dreaming that we meet brings me nothing in waking life, it is that fleeting dream that is my very life.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisuke
Au made wa omoi mo yorazu natsubiki no itooshi to dani iu to kikabaya
Meeting you is more than I dare to imagine; if only I could hear that you had said, at least, 'poor thing', like a thread drawn in summer.
Ima wa tada nerarenu i o zo tomo to suru koishiki hito no yukari to omoeba
Now I simply take as my companion this sleep that will not come, for I think of it as something bound to the one I love.
Omoiyare suma no uramite netaru yo no katashiku sode ni kakaru namida o
Think of them: the tears that fell on the single sleeve I spread the night I lay down, gazing on the bay of Suma and resenting you.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Nakamasa
Asanegami taga tamakura ni tawatsukete kesa wa katami to furikoshite miru
My hair, tangled from sleeping late, on whose arm was it pillowed and tangled? This morning I sweep it forward over my shoulder and gaze at it as a keepsake.
Kinyo Wakashu - Tsumori no Kunimoto
Koisu chō na o dani nagase namidagawa tsurenaki hito mo kiki ya wataru to
River of tears, at least let the rumor that I am in love flow out into the world; perhaps even that heartless one will hear of it.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Nani sen ni omoi kakekemu karakoromo koishiki koto wa misao naranu ni
Why did I hang my heart on you, as one hangs a Chinese robe, when longing is something no heart can keep steady?
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto wa itsu to nagisa no hamachidori nami no tachii ni ne o nomi zo naku
When we shall meet, no one knows; like the plovers on the shore that rise and settle with each wave, I only cry aloud.
Omoiizu ya arishi sono yo no kuretake wa asamashikarishi fushidokoro kana
Do you remember it, that night we had? The place where we lay, like the knots of the black bamboo, was shabby beyond belief.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinzane
Tanabata wa mata kon aki mo tanomuramu au yo mo shiranu mi o ika ni sen
The Weaver Maiden can rely on autumn coming round again; but I, who do not know when any night of meeting will come, what am I to do?
Mizutori no hakaze ni sawagu sazanami no ayashiki made mo nururu sode kana
Like the ripples stirred by the wingbeats of water birds, my sleeves are wet to a degree beyond all reason.
Yume ni dani au to wa mie yo samo koso wa utsutsu ni tsuraki kokoro naritomo
At least in my dreams, let me see us meeting, even if in the waking world your heart stays cold to me.
Shirakumo no kakaru yamaji o fumi mite zo itodo kokoro wa sora ni narikeru
As if treading a mountain path where white clouds hang, once I had seen your letter my heart drifted off all the more into the empty sky.
Aimin to tanomureba koso kurehatori ayashi ya ikaga tachikaerubeki
It was only because you led me to hope we would meet that I came; how strange it is, how could I simply turn and go home?
Tanigawa no ue wa konoha ni uzumorete shita ni nakaru to hito shiru rame ya
The surface of the valley stream is buried under fallen leaves; would anyone know that beneath it the water flows, that beneath it I weep?