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- Kokin Wakashu
Chidori naku Saho no kawagiri tachinurashi
yama no ko no ha mo iro masariyuku
The plovers are calling, and mist must be rising over the Saho River; even the leaves upon the hills are deepening in color.
Kokin Wakashu - Mibu no Tadamine
Aki kuredo iro mo kawaranu Tokiwayama
yoso no momiji o kaze zo kashikeru
Autumn has come, yet on Mount Tokiwa the leaves remain unchanged in color; the wind must be borrowing autumn foliage from other mountains.
Kokin Wakashu - Sakanoue no Koreyuki
Shirayuki no furishiku toki wa Miyoshino no
yamashitakaze ni hana zo chirikeru
When the white snow falls thick and without cease, it seems as though flowers are being scattered by the wind blowing down from the slopes of Yoshino Mountain.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Mine takaki Kasuga no yama ni izuru hi wa
kumoru toki naku terasu beranari
The sun that rises over lofty Mount Kasuga will surely shine upon the world without ever being clouded.
Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoruka
Tachiwakare Inaba no yama no mine ni ouru
matsu to shi kikaba ima kaerimu
Though we part here and I depart, if I hear that you are waiting for my return like the pine trees growing on the peaks of Mount Inaba, I will come back at once.
Kokin Wakashu - Ariwara no Yukihira
Sugaru naku aki no hagihara asa tachite
tabi yuku hito o itsu to ka matamu
As the digger wasps cry in the autumn bush clover fields, you depart on your journey at dawn. I will wait, wondering when you will return.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kagiri naki kumoi no yoso ni wakaru tomo
hito o kokoro ni okuramu ya wa
Though we part for a place as distant as the boundless heavens, I could never leave thoughts of you behind. I will not forget you.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tarachine no oya no mamori to aisouru
kokoro bakari wa seki na todome so
As a mother's protection, let at least my heart, which goes with my child, not be stopped by the barriers along the road.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kyō wakare asu wa ōmi to omoedomo yo ya fukenu ramu sode no tsuyukeki
We part today, and yet I tell myself that tomorrow you will be in Ōmi, a place whose very name means "meeting." Still, has the night grown so late? My sleeve is damp with dew.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Toshisada
Kaeruyama ari to wa kikedo harugasumi tachi wakarenaba koishikaru beshi
I have heard that in Koshi there stands a mountain whose name means "Return," and yet, once you rise and part from me like the spring haze, I know I shall long for you.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Toshisada
Oshimu kara koishiki mono o shirakumo no tachinamu nochi wa nani kokochi semu
Even now, as I grieve to let you go, I already long for you. Once you rise and depart like the white clouds, what will become of my heart?
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Wakarete wa hodo o hedatsu to omoeba ya katsu minagara ni kanete koishiki
Is it because I think that once we part, long stretches of time will lie between us? Even now, while you are still before my eyes, I already long for you.
Kokin Wakashu - Ariwara no Shigeharu
Omoedomo mi o shi wakeneba me ni mienu kokoro o kimi ni taguete zo yaru
Though my thoughts are with you, I cannot divide myself in two; so I send my heart, which no eye can see, to travel at your side.
Kokin Wakashu - Ikago no Atsuyuki
Ōsaka no seki shi masashiki mono naraba akazu wakaruru kimi o todomeyo
If the Barrier of Ōsaka truly lives up to its name, "the Slope of Meeting," then let it hold you back, you who part from me before I have had my fill of your company.
Kokin Wakashu - Naniwa no Yorozuo
Karakoromo tatsu hi wa kikaji asatsuyu no okite shi yukeba kenu beki mono o
I will not listen to talk of the day you leave, that day of cutting fine Chinese cloth. If you rise at dawn and go, leaving me behind like the morning dew, surely I shall vanish as the dew does.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Asanake ni mibeki kimi to shi tanomaneba omoi tachinuru kusamakura nari
Since I cannot rely on you as someone I will see morning and evening, I have made up my mind to set out on this journey, with only grass for a pillow.
Kokin Wakashu - Utsuku