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- Kinyo Wakashu
Yomosugara kusa no makura ni oku tsuyu wa furusato kouru namida narikeri
The dew that settles all night long on my pillow of grass is the tears I shed in longing for home.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Nakamasa
Arakarishi kaze no nochi yori taenuru wa kumode ni sugaku ito ni ya aruramu
What broke off after that fierce wind, I wonder, was it only a spider's thread spun out every which way?
Kinyo Wakashu - Sagami
Yo to tomo ni tama chiru toko no sugamakura misebaya hito ni yowa no keshiki o
Night after night, jewel-tears scatter over my bed and its pillow of sedge; how I would like to show her the scene here in the depths of the night.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Ayame ni mo aranu makomo o hikikakeshi kari no yodono no wasurarenu kana
That makeshift bedchamber at Yodo, hung with wild rice grass instead of irises, I can never forget.
Kinyo Wakashu - Sagami
Nazo mo kaku koiji ni tachite ayamegusa amari nagabiku satsuki naruramu
Why is it that, standing on the muddy path of love, I find the fifth month drawn out far too long, like the long roots of the iris?
Onozukara yogaruru toki no samushiro wa namida no uki ni naru to shirazu ya
On those nights when, as it happens, you stay away, don't you know that my narrow, cold mat floats in tears and becomes a thing of sorrow?
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Akinaka
Ike ni sumu waga na o oshi no torikaesu mono ni mogana ya hito o uramiji
If only I could take back my precious name, like the mandarin duck that lives on the pond, then I would not resent you.
Akikaze ni fukikaesarete kuzu no ha no ika ni uramishi mono to ka wa shiru
Like kudzu leaves blown back by the autumn wind to show their undersides, how bitterly I resented you, do you really know?
Shitagaeba mi o ba sutetemu kokoro ni mo kanawade tomaru na koso oshikere
If I were to yield to you, I would readily throw myself away; it is only the name left behind, against my own wishes, that I hold dear.
Tsutsumedomo namida no ame no shirukereba koisuru na o mo furashitsuru kana
Though I try to hide it, the rain of my tears is so plain to see that I have spread abroad, like rain, the rumor that I am in love.
Shimakaze ni shiba tatsu nami no yachi kaeri uramite mo nao tanomaruru kana
Like the waves the island wind raises again and again, rolling back a thousand times, however often I resent you, I still find myself trusting you.
Asamashi ya ause mo shiranu natorigawa madaki ni iwama morasubeshi ya wa
How shocking! We have not even met, and yet, like the Natori River seeping through the gaps in the rocks, should you let our secret leak out so soon?
Hitoyo to wa itsu ka chigirishi kawatake no nagarete to koso omoisomeshika
When did I ever pledge that it would be for one night only? Like bamboo by the river, I thought our love would flow on long when I first began to love you.
Aimite no nochi tsurakaraba yoyo o hete kore yori masaru koi ni madowamu
If, after we have met, coldness comes between us, then through age after age there will be wandering lost in a love far worse than this.
Itsu to naku koi ni kogaruru waga mi yori tatsu ya asama no keburi naruramu
Is the smoke of Mount Asama, I wonder, the smoke that rises from this body of mine, forever burning with love?
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Nochi no yo to chigirishi hito mo naki mono o shinabaya to nomi iu zo hakanaki
Though there is no one who has promised to share the next life with me, I keep saying only that I want to die, and how empty it is.