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- Kinyo Wakashu
Wagimoko ga koe tachikikishi karakoromo sono yo no tsuyu ni sode wa nureniki
That night when I stood and overheard my beloved's voice, the sleeves of my Chinese robe were soaked through with the dew of that very night.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisue
Kotowari ya omoi kurabu no yamazakura nioi masareru haru o mezuru mo
It is only natural: weighing one against the other, like the mountain cherries of Kurabu, you should cherish the spring whose colors glow the brighter.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Koiwabite nagamuru sora no ukigumo ya waga shitamoe no keburi naruramu
Pining in love, I gaze up at the sky; are those drifting clouds the smoke of the fire that smolders hidden within me?
Kinyo Wakashu - Suo no Naishi
Au koto no hisashi ni fukeru ayamegusa tada karisome no tsuma to koso mire
It has been so long since we met; like the iris laid on the eaves for a season, I see you only as a husband for a passing while.
Kinyo Wakashu - Former Ise Priestess's Kawachi
Tsuraki o mo omoi mo shiranu mi no hodo ni koishisa ikade wasurezaruramu
Such as I am, unable even to take your coldness to heart, why is it that I cannot forget this longing for you?
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Nakamasa
Saki no yo no chigiri o shirade hakanaku mo hito o tsurashi to omoikeru kana
Not knowing the bond fixed for us in a former life, how foolishly I have thought you heartless.
Wasuregusa shigereru yado o kite mireba omoi noki yori ouru narikeri
When I came to see your house overgrown with forgetting-grass, I found it was sprouting from the eaves, from the place where your love for me withdrew.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Ima yori wa omoi mo ideji urameshi to iu mo tanomi no kakaru kagiri zo
From now on I will not even think of you; to say I resent you is something one does only while some hope still clings.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Omoiki ya aimishi yowa no ureshisa ni nochi no tsurasa no masarubeshi to wa
Could I ever have imagined it, that the pain afterward would come to outweigh the joy of the night we spent together?
Awazu tomo nakaramu yo ni mo omoiideyo ware yue inochi taeshi hito zo to
Even if you will not meet me, remember me in the world after I am gone: here was one whose life was cut short because of you.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Suru sumi mo otsuru namida ni arawarete koishi to dani mo e koso kakarene
Even the ink I grind is washed away by my falling tears, so that I cannot write even the words I long for you.
Iro mienu kokoro bakari wa shizumuredo namida wa e koso shinobazarikere
The heart, which shows no color, I somehow keep subdued; but my tears I could never hold back.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Kunizane
Au koto wa yume bakari nite yaminishi o sa koso mishika to hito ni kataru na
Our meeting was no more than a dream and ended so; do not go telling others that we were so close.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ashigaki ni hima naku kakaru kumo no i no mono mutsukashiku shigeru waga koi
Like a spider's web hung over a reed fence leaving not a gap, this love of mine grows thick, tangled and oppressive.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Tsunenobu
Osauredo amaru namida wa Moruyama no nageki ni otsuru shizuku narikeri
The tears that brim over though I press them back, I find, are drops falling from the trees of grief on Mount Moru.
Ika ni semu nageki no mori wa shigekeredo ko no ma no tsuki no kakure naki yo o
What am I to do? Though the Forest of Grief grows thick, this is a world where, like the moon between the trees, nothing can stay hidden.