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- Gosen Wakashu
Fuku kaze wa iro mo mienedo fuyu kureba hitori nuru yo no mi ni zo shimikeru
The blowing wind has no color to be seen, yet when winter comes it pierces deep into my body on nights when I sleep alone.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Akihatete waga mi shigure ni furinureba koto no ha sae ni utsuroinikeri
Since I have been tired of utterly, as autumn ends, and have grown old as if worn by the showers, even your words have faded and changed like the leaves.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kannazuki shigure to tomo ni Kannabi no mori no konoha wa furi ni koso fure
In the tenth month, together with the showers, the leaves of the Kannabi woods come falling down and falling still.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tanomu ki mo karehatenureba kannazuki shigure ni nomi mo nururu koro kana
Since even the tree I relied on has withered away, these days in the tenth month I am only soaked by the showers.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kannazuki shigure bakari o mi ni soete shiranu yamaji ni iru zo kanashiki
In the tenth month, with only the showers to keep me company, how sad it is to enter an unknown mountain path.
Gosen Wakashu - Zōki
Momijiba wa oshiki nishiki to mishikadomo shigure to tomo ni furidete zo koshi
Though I saw the autumn leaves as a brocade too precious to leave, I shook myself free and came away, just as the showers began to fall.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadanobu
Momijiba mo shigure mo tsurashi mare ni kite kaeran hito o furi ya todomenu
How heartless are both the autumn leaves and the showers: when someone came so rarely and was about to leave, they did not fall to keep him there.
Gosen Wakashu - Ōe no Chifuru
Kannazuki kagiri to ya omou momijiba no yamu toki mo naku yoru sae ni furu
Do they think the tenth month is their last? The autumn leaves keep falling without pause, even through the night.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Chihayaburu Kamigakiyama no sakakiba wa shigure ni iro mo kawarazarikeri
The leaves of the sacred sakaki on Mount Kamigaki do not change their color, even in the winter showers.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hito sumazu aretaru yado o kite mireba ima zo konoha wa nishiki orikeru
When I came to see the house where no one lives and all has gone to ruin, I found that now, of all times, the leaves had woven a brocade.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nakahira
Namida sae shigure ni soite furusato wa momiji no iro mo kosa masarikeri
In my old home, where even my tears fall along with the showers, the color of the autumn leaves has grown all the deeper.
Gosen Wakashu - Ise
Fuyu no ike no kamo no uwage ni oku shimo no kiete mono omou koro ni mo aru kana
Like the frost that settles on the outer feathers of the ducks on a winter pond and melts away, these are days when I brood until I almost vanish.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kannazuki shigure furu ni mo kururu hi o kimi matsu hodo wa nagashi to zo omou
In the tenth month, the days grow dark so quickly even as the showers fall, yet while I wait for you, how long the time seems.
Mi o wakete shimo ya okuran adabito no koto no ha sae ni kare mo yuku kana
Has the frost divided itself to settle everywhere? Even the words of my faithless lover are withering away, drawing apart from me.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hito shirezu kimi ni tsuketeshi waga sode no kesa shimo tokezu kōru narubeshi
My sleeves, which secretly I have given to you, must surely be frozen this morning of frost, never to thaw.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kakikurashi arare furishike shiratama o shikeru niwa to mo hito no mirubeku
Darken the sky, hail, and fall thick and fast, so that people will see this as a garden strewn with white pearls.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet