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- Shui Wakashu
Ada nari na tori no kōri ni oriiru wa shita yori tokuru koto wa shiranu ka
How precarious! The birds that have alighted on the ice—do they not know that it melts from below?
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Shigeyuki
Obotsuka na kumo no kayoiji mite shi gana tori nomi yukeba atohaka mo nashi
How uncertain it is! I wish I could see the paths through the clouds, but since only birds travel them, no trace remains.
Shui Wakashu - Taira no Kanemori
Akazu shite wakareshi hito no sumu sato wa sa wa kono miyuru yama no anata ka
The village where the one I parted from, still longing, now lives—is it, then, beyond these mountains I see?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kagaribi no tokoro sadamezu mietsuru wa nagaretsutsu nomi takeba narikeri
The flares that seemed never to stay in one place were, I now see, being burned on boats that kept drifting downstream.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Suketoki
Kannabi no mimuro no kishi ya kuzuru ran tatsuta no kawa no mizu no nigoreru
Are the banks of Mimuro at Kannabi crumbling? For the waters of the Tatsuta River are muddied.
Shui Wakashu - Takamuko no Kusaharu
Ikarii no ishi o kukumite kamikoshi wa kisa no ki ni koso otorazarikere
The tusks of the angry boar that came biting with a stone in its mouth are, it seems, no less than the tusks of an elephant.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sukemi
Samidare ni naranu kagiri wa hototogisu nani ka wa nakamu shinobu bakari ni
Until the season of the early summer rains comes, why should the cuckoo sing? It only keeps its voice hidden.
Shui Wakashu - The Monk Senkei
Kokorozashi fukaki toki ni wa soko no mo mo kazukiidenuru mono ni zo arikeru
When one's intent is deep, one will dive even to the bottom and bring up the waterweed.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sukemi
Omokage ni shibashiba miyuru kimi naredo koishiki koto zo toki zo to mo naki
Though you often appear to me in my mind's eye, there is no particular time when I long for you—I long for you always.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Inishie wa ogorerishikado wabinureba toneri ga kinu mo ima wa kitsu beshi
In the old days I was proud and haughty, but now that I have fallen low, I would surely wear even the coarse robe of a servant.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sukemi
Ike o harikometaru mizu no ōkareba ii no kuchi yori amaru naru beshi
Since the pond is brimming with so much water, it must be overflowing from the mouth of the sluice.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sukemi
Ashihiki no yamashitamizu ni nurenikeri sono hi mazu take koromo aburan
I have gotten soaked in the stream flowing at the mountain's foot; first build up that fire, and I will dry my robe over it.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sukemi
Itoedomo tsuraki katami o miru toki wa mazu takekaranu ne koso nakarure
Though I try to shun it, whenever I see the keepsake of that cruel one, a feeble cry of weeping escapes me before all else.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sukemi
Yama takami hana no iro o mo miru beki ni nikuku tachinuru harugasumi kana
Since the mountains are high, I should be able to see the colors of the blossoms, yet how hatefully the spring haze has risen!
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sukemi
No o mireba harumekinikeri aotsuzura ko ni ya kumamashi wakana tsumu beku
Looking at the moor, I see it has grown springlike; shall I weave a basket of green vine for gathering young greens?
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sukemi
Isari seshi ama no oshieshi izuku zo ya shima meguru tote ari to iishi wa
Where is the place the fisher told me about while he was fishing—the place he said was there if one went around the island?
Shui Wakashu - Takaoka no Sukeyuki