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- Kinyo Wakashu
Koiwabite taenu omoi no keburi mo ya munashiki sora no kumo to naruramu
Pining in love, will the smoke of this longing that never dies away rise into the empty sky and become a cloud?
Au koto wa itsu tomo nakute aware waga shiranu inochi ni toshi o furu kana
With no knowing when we will meet, alas, I pass the years in a life whose end I cannot know.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Tsunenobu
Hito shirezu omou kokoro o kanaenamu kami arawarete mienu to naraba
Grant that the love I hold in secret may come true, if indeed a god has appeared and been seen.
Hito shirenu omoi ariso no urakaze ni nami no yoru koso iwamahoshikere
I hold a longing no one knows; like waves drawn in by the wind along the rocky shore, it is at night that I long to tell you of it.
Oto ni kiku Takashi no hama no adanami wa kakeji ya sode no nure mo koso sure
The fickle waves of Takashi Beach, so famous far and wide, I will not let splash my sleeves, lest they be soaked; nor will I take to heart the words of one so famed for fickleness, lest I end in tears.
Kinyo Wakashu - The Lady Kii of Princess Yushi's Household
Chigiriokishi hito mo kozue no ko no ma yori tanomenu tsuki no kage zo morikuru
The one who made a promise does not come; instead, through the treetops, the light of the moon that promised nothing comes stealing in.
Me no mae ni kawaru kokoro o namidagawa nagarete ya tomo omoikeru kana
Your heart changed before my very eyes, yet I had thought that, like the river of my tears, our love might flow on for years to come.
Kyō koso wa Iwase no mori no shitamomiji iro ni izureba chiri mo shinurame
Today at last I have let it be spoken; like the lower leaves in the forest of Iwase, once love has shown its color, it must surely scatter for all to see.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Kanemasa
Okurite wa kaere to omoishi tamashii no yukisasuraite kesa wa naki kana
When I saw you off I told my soul to come back to me, but it has wandered away with you, and this morning it is gone.
Fuyu no yo no yukige no sora ni ideshikado kage yori hoka ni okuri ya wa seshi
On a winter night I went out beneath a sky heavy with snow, yet who saw me off but my own shadow?
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Tsunenobu
Yukue naku kakikomoru ni zo hikimayu no itou kokoro no hodo wa shiraruru
Gone without a word, shut away like a silkworm in its cocoon, you have shown me, like a drawn thread, just how much you shun me.
Kinyo Wakashu - Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Hito wa isa ari to ya suramu wasurarete towarenu mi koso naki kokochi sure
As for you, who can say? Perhaps you think I still live; but forgotten and unvisited, I feel as if I no longer exist.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hayaku yori asaki kokoro to miteshikaba omoitaeniki yamakawa no mizu
From early on I saw your heart was shallow, so I let my love run dry, like water in a mountain stream.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Morasabaya hosotanigawa no umoremizu kage dani mienu koi ni shizumu to
How I wish I could let you know, like water seeping from a narrow mountain stream buried under leaves, that I am sunk in a love where I cannot even glimpse you.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kimi koso wa hitoyomeguri no kami to kike nani au koto no katatagauramu
You, I hear, are a god who goes the rounds in a single night; why then, when it comes to meeting me, must you avoid my direction?
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Azusayumi kaeru ashita no omoi ni wa hikikurabubeki koto no naki kana
The sorrow of the morning when I must leave you behind, like a catalpa bow springing back, has nothing to compare with it.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisuke