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- Gosen Wakashu
Nami wakete miru yoshi mo gana watatsumi no soko no mirume mo momiji chiru ya to
Would there were some way to part the waves and look, to see whether the seaweed on the floor of the sea also turns color and scatters.
Gosen Wakashu - Fun'ya no Asayasu
Ko no ha chiru ura ni nami tatsu aki nareba momiji ni hana mo sakimagaikeri
Since it is autumn, when leaves fall on the bay and waves rise, the flowers of foam bloom mingled with the colored leaves.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Okikaze
Watatsumi no kami ni tamukuru yamahime no nusa o zo hito wa momiji to iikeru
What people have been calling autumn leaves are, it seems, the offering strips the mountain princess presents to the god of the sea.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Higurashi no koe mo itonaku kikoyuru wa aki yūgure ni nareba narikeri
That the voices of the evening cicadas, too, are heard without pause is, I find, because it has become an autumn dusk.
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Kaze no oto no kagiri to aki ya semetsuran fukikuru goto ni koe no wabishiki
Has autumn pressed the sound of the wind, saying this is the very last? Each time it comes blowing, how forlorn its voice sounds.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Momijiba ni tamareru kari no namida ni wa tsuki no kage koso utsuru beranare
In the tears of the wild geese gathered on the colored leaves, the moonlight seems to be reflected.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ōkata no aki no sora dani wabishiki ni mono omoi souru kimi ni mo aru kana
Even the ordinary autumn sky fills me with gloom, and yet you are one who adds still more brooding to my heart.
Gosen Wakashu - Ukon
Waga gotoku mono omoikerashi shiratsuyu no yo o itazura ni okiakashitsutsu
Like me, it seems, the white dew has been lost in brooding, lying awake through the night in vain until dawn.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Aki fukami yoso ni nomi kiku shiratsuyu no ta ga koto no ha ni kakaru naruran
Now that autumn is so deep, upon whose words, I wonder, has the white dew I heard of only from afar come to settle?
Gosen Wakashu - Daughter of Taira no Koremochi
Tou koto no aki shimo mare ni kikoyuru wa kari ni ya ware o hito no tanomeshi
That your visits reach me so rarely, and in autumn of all times—is it because you made me trust you only for a while, like the passing geese?
Gosen Wakashu - Akoki of the Shōkyōden
Kimi kou to namida ni nururu waga sode to aki no momiji to izure masareri
My sleeves, wet with the tears I shed for love of you, and the autumn leaves—which of the two is deeper in color?
Gosen Wakashu - Minamoto no Totonou
Teru tsuki no aki shimo koto ni sayakeki wa chiru momijiba o yoru mo miyo to ka
Is the shining moon so especially clear in autumn of all times to bid us watch the falling leaves by night as well?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Nado waga mi shitaba momiji to narinikemu onaji nageki no eda ni koso are
Why have I become like a lower leaf that reddens and fades, when we both hang on the same branch of sorrow?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Akakaraba mirubeki mono o karigane no izuko bakari ni nakite yukuran
If only it were light, I could see them—just where, I wonder, are the wild geese crying as they pass?
Gosen Wakashu - Minamoto no Watasu
Itazura ni tsuyu ni okaruru hana ka tote kokoro mo shiranu hito ya orikemu
Taking it for a flower that merely lay idle under the dew, did someone who knew nothing of my heart pluck it?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Eda mo ha mo utsurou aki no hana mireba hate wa kage naku narinu beranari
When I look at the autumn flower, its branches and leaves all fading, it seems that in the end not even its shade will remain.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadayuki