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- Kinyo Wakashu
Iwanu ma wa shita hau ashi no ne o shigemi hima naki koi o hito shiru rame ya
As long as I do not speak of it, like reeds whose roots grow thick, creeping beneath the water, this love that leaves no gap, would anyone know of it?
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Machishi yo no fukeshi o nani ni nagekikemu omoitaete mo sugushikeru mi o
Why did I grieve so over the deepening of the nights I spent waiting, when even with all hope cut off I have gone on living like this?
Inochi o shi kakete chigirishi naka nareba tayuru wa shinuru kokochi koso sure
Since ours is a bond pledged with our very lives at stake, its breaking off feels to me like dying.
Kakitaete hodo mo henuru o sasagani no ima wa kokoro ni kakarazu mogana
It has been utterly broken off, and a long time has passed; now I wish you would no longer catch in my heart like a spider's thread.
Misebaya na kimi shinobine no kusamakura tama nukikakuru tabi no keshiki o
How I wish I could show you my journey: the grass pillow where I sleep longing for you, hung with tears like jewels strung on a cord.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Omoiyare towade hi o furu samidare no hitori yado moru sode no shizuku o
Think of them: the drops upon my sleeve as I keep the house alone, while the early summer rains fall on through the days you do not come, leaking in like my tears.
Kinyo Wakashu - Kyōgoku Kanpaku-ke no Higo
Kouredomo hito no kokoro no tokenu ni wa musubare nagara kaeru tamazusa
Though I love her, her heart will not come undone, and so my letter comes back to me still knotted as it was.
Kokorozashi asaji ga sue ni oku tsuyu no tamasaka ni tou hito wa tanomaji
Shallow in love like the dew on the tips of the low reeds, one who comes only now and then like a passing drop, such a one I will not rely on.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Shinoburedo kai mo nagisa no ama obune nami wa kakete mo ima wa uramiji
Though I endure in silence, it is no use, like a fisher's little boat at the water's edge; though the waves break over me, I will resent you no longer.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Nazo mo kaku mi ni kau bakari omouramu aimin koto mo hito no tame ka wa
Why do I love so much that I would give my own life for it, when even our meeting would be for no one else's sake?
Ada narishi hito no kokoro ni kurabureba hana mo tokiwa no mono to koso mire
Compared with the fickle heart of the one who was false to me, even the blossoms seem to me things that never change.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadamichi
Waga koi wa karasuba ni kaku koto no ha no utsusanu hodo wa shiru hito mo nashi
My love is like words written on a crow's black feathers: until they are copied out, there is no one who knows of them.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisue
Ayaniku ni kogaruru mune mo aru mono o ika ni kawakanu tamoto naruramu
Perversely, though there is this breast of mine burning with love, why is it that my sleeve never dries?
Koiwabite omoi irusa no yama no ha ni izuru tsukihi no tsumorinuru kana
Pining with love and sunk deep in thought, I have watched the months and days pile up, like the moon and sun rising over the rim of Mount Irusa.
Utatane ni au to mitsuru wa utsutsu nite tsuraki o yume to omowamashikaba
If only I could believe that the meeting I saw in my fitful sleep was real, and that your cruelty was the dream.
Omoigusa hasue ni musubu shiratsuyu no tamatama kite wa te ni mo kakarazu
Like the beads of white dew that form on the tips of the longing-grass, you come only now and then, and I can never keep you in my hand.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori