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- Senzai Wakashu
Akatsuki no nezame ni suguru shigure koso morade mo hito no sode nurashikere
The showers that pass as one lies awake before dawn wet one's sleeves even without leaking through the roof.
Senzai Wakashu - Ki no Yasumune
Chirihatete nochi sae kaze o itou kana momiji o fukeru miyamabe no sato
Even after the leaves have all fallen, I still dread the wind in this village deep in the mountains, its roofs thatched with autumn leaves.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Morimasa
Miyako dani sabishisa masaru kogarashi ni mine no matsukaze omoi koso yare
Even here in the capital the cold wind makes loneliness deepen, so I can only imagine how the wind in the pines must sound on your mountain peak.
Senzai Wakashu - Daughter of Fujiwara no Sadayori
Asaborake Uji no kawagiri taedae ni arawarewataru seze no ajirogi
As dawn breaks dimly, the river mist on the Uji thins here and there, and through the gaps the weir stakes in the shallows appear one after another.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sadayori
Yakatao no mashiro no taka o hikisuete Uda no todachi o karikurashitsuru
With my pure white hawk, its tail barred like arrow feathers, held on my fist, I spent the whole day hunting in the coverts of Uda.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nakazane
Furu yuki ni yukue mo miezu hashitaka no obusa no suzu no oto bakari shite
In the falling snow I cannot see where my sparrow hawk has flown; there is only the sound of the bell on its tail.
Senzai Wakashu - Ryūgen
Yūmagure yamakatazukite tatsu tori no haoto ni taka o awasetsuru kana
In the dusk, as a bird took flight from the edge of the hill, I loosed my hawk at the sound of its wings.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Imogari to Saho no kawabe o waga yukeba sayo ka fukenuru chidori naku nari
As I walk along the Saho riverbank on my way to my beloved, has the night grown late? I hear the plovers crying.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagato
Suma no seki ariake no sora ni naku chidori katabuku tsuki wa nare mo kanashiki
Plover crying in the dawn sky at Suma Barrier, does the setting moon grieve you too?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Iwa koyuru araisonami ni tatsu chidori kokoro narade ya urazutau ran
The plovers that rise from the rough waves breaking over the rocks of the shore, do they move from bay to bay against their will?
Senzai Wakashu - Dōin
Shimo saete sayo mo Nagai no ura samumi akeyarazu to ya chidori naku ran
The frost is cold and clear, the night is long, and the bay at Nagai is chill; is it because dawn will not come that the plovers are crying?
Senzai Wakashu - Jōken
Shimogare no Naniwa no ashi no honobono to akuru minato ni chidori naku nari
Over the harbor where dawn breaks faintly, as the plumes of the frost-withered reeds of Naniwa show dimly, I hear the plovers crying.
Senzai Wakashu - Kamo no Nariyasu
Katami ni ya uwage no shimo o harau ramu tomone no oshi no morogoe ni naku
Are they brushing the frost from each other's feathers? The mandarin ducks sleeping together cry out with one voice.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Chikafusa
Mizutori o mizu no ue to ya yoso ni mimu ware mo ukitaru yo o sugushitsutsu
Can I look upon the waterfowl as mere creatures of the water, apart from me? I too am living out my days in a floating, sorrowful world.
Senzai Wakashu - Murasaki Shikibu
Mizutori no tamamo no toko no ukimakura fukaki omoi wa tare ka masareru
The waterfowl sleeps adrift with jeweled seaweed for a bed and a floating, sorrowful pillow. In depth of longing, which of us surpasses the other?
Senzai Wakashu - Oe no Masafusa
Kono koro no oshi no ukine zo aware naru uwage no shimo yo shita no kōri yo
How pitiful the floating sleep of the mandarin ducks these days: frost on their feathers above, ice beneath them below.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Sutoku