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- Masukagami
Minaseyama wagafurusatowa arenuramu magakiwanorato hitomokayowade
The hills of Minase: my old home must be in ruins by now, its hedges gone back to open field, with no one passing there.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Kazashioru hitomoarabaya kototowan okinomiyamani sugiwamiyuredo
If only there were someone here to break a sprig for his hair, I would send word by him. Cedars are to be seen in the deep hills of Oki, and yet.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Kagiriareba satemotaekeru minousayo taminowarayani nokionarabete
Since limits are set to all things I have borne it even so—the bitterness of this life, my eaves standing beside the straw huts of the common people.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Omoiizuru koromohakanashi waremohitomo mishiniwaarazu tadoraruruyoni
The days I remember, and this robe, are alike fleeting. Neither you nor I are what we were, in a world through which we grope our way.
Masukagami - Higashi Ichijoin
Kiekanuru inochizotsuraki onajiyoni arumotanomiwa kakenuchigirio
It is hard that this life will not go out. We are in the same world, and yet it is a bond on which no hope can be laid.
Masukagami - Higashi Ichijoin
Ushitomishi arishiwakarewa fujigoromo yagatekirubeki kadodenarikeri
That parting I once found so hard was the setting out that would soon bring me to wear this mourning robe.
Masukagami - Kozaisho
Kanashisawa ukiyonotogato somukedomo tadakoishisano nagusamezonaki
I told myself that sorrow was the world's own fault and turned my back on it; but for longing alone there is no comfort.
Masukagami - Mibu no Kyo no Naishi no Suke
Hitogokoro utsurihatenuru hananoironi mukashinagarano yamananonamoushi
Men's hearts have faded utterly, like the colour of the blossoms; and seeing it, even the hill whose name means unchanged from of old has become hateful to me.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Nazomokaku omoisomeken sakurabana yamatoshitakaku narihatsurumade
Why have I been so deeply dyed with longing, cherry blossoms, until it has risen as high as the mountain itself?
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Watanohara yasoshimakakete shirubeseyo harukanikayou okinotsuribune
Across the wide sea, past the eighty islands, guide me there—fishing boat that plies so far out in the offing.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Nokibaarete tarekaminaseno yadonotsuki sumikoshimamano iroyasabishiki
The eaves have fallen in, and who is there to look at the moon over the house at Minase? Its light, clear as when I lived there, must be lonely now.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Sabishisawa madaminushimano yamazatoo omoiyarunimo sumukokochishite
Loneliness is this: that merely to imagine a mountain village on an island I have never seen gives me the feeling of living there.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Warenagara utomihatenuru minoueni namidabakarizo omogawarisenu
Even to myself I have grown wholly hateful; and on this life of mine only the tears keep the face they always wore.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Furusatowa irinuruisono kusayotada yūshiomichite mirakusukunaki
My old home is like the grass on a shore the tide has entered: as the evening water fills, the times of seeing it grow few.
Masukagami - Go-Toba In
Inishieni naonomikikite motomeken mikaminoyamawa korezosonoyama
The mountain of the three gods, which the ancients heard of only by name and went out to seek: this is that very mountain.
Masukagami - Sugawara no Tamenaga
Suetōki chiyonokagekoso hisashikere madafutabanaru iwasakinomatsu
Long indeed is the shade of a thousand ages that lies ahead—though the pine of Iwasaki is still no more than two leaves.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Tsunemitsu