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- Senzai Wakashu
Mashiba karu ono no hosomichi ato taete fukaku mo yuki no narinikeru kana
On the narrow path over the moor where people go to cut brushwood, the tracks have disappeared; how deep the snow has grown.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tamesue
Yuki fureba kigi no kozue ni sakisomuru eda yori hoka no hana mo chirikeri
When snow falls, flowers begin to bloom on the treetops, and there are flowers, too, that scatter not from any branch.
Senzai Wakashu - Shun'e
Furu mama ni ato taenureba Suzukayama yuki koso seki no tozashi narikere
As the snow falls, all trace of travelers is lost on Mount Suzuka; it is the snow itself that bars the gate of the barrier.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshimichi
Yamazato no kakine no ume wa sakinikeri kabakari koso wa haru mo niowame
The plum by the hedge of the mountain village has already bloomed; just so, surely, will it glow when spring has come.
Senzai Wakashu - Myōkai
Kakikurashi koshiji mo miezu furu yuki ni ikade ka toshi no kaeriyuku ran
In snow so thick the sky is darkened and neither the road to Koshi nor the road the year came by can be seen, how can the year find its way back?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanenaga
Saritomo to nageki nagekite sugushitsuru toshi mo koyoi ni kurehatenikeri
Telling myself "even so, someday," I have spent the year in sigh upon sigh, and now tonight the year itself has come to its end.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinmitsu
Aware ni mo kureyuku toshi no hikazu kana kaeramu koto wa yo no ma to omou ni
How moving are the few days left in the waning year, when I think that its going will come within a single night.
Senzai Wakashu - Sagami
Kazu naranu mi ni wa tsumoranu toshi naraba kyō no kure o mo nagekazaramashi
If only the years would not pile up on someone of no account like me, I would not have to grieve at the close of this day.
Senzai Wakashu - Koremune no Hirokoto
Oshimedomo hakanaku kurete yuku toshi no shinobu mukashi ni kaeramashikaba
However I regret it, the year fades away so fleetingly; if only, as it goes back, it would return to the days of old I long for.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Mitsuyuki
Hitotose wa hakanaki yume no kokochi shite kurenuru kyō zo odorokarekeru
The past year has felt like a fleeting dream, and on this day as it ends I am startled awake.
Senzai Wakashu - Shunsō
Miyako nite okuri mukau to isogishi o shirade ya toshi no kyō wa kurenan
In the capital I used to bustle about seeing out the old year and welcoming the new; now, knowing nothing of all that, will the last day of the year simply close?
Senzai Wakashu - Taira no Chikanori
Mukashi mishi kokoro bakari o shirube nite omoi zo okuru Iki no Matsubara
With nothing but the heart that remembers what I once saw there as my guide, I send you off in my thoughts, all the way to the pine grove of Iki where you are going.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanekata
Wakare yori masarite oshiki inochi kana kimi ni futatabi awamu to omoeba
Dearer to me even than the sorrow of parting is my own life, for I mean to live to meet you once again.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintō
Naki yowaru magaki no mushi mo tomegataki aki no wakare ya kanashikaru ran
Are even the insects by the fence, their songs growing faint, grieving at this parting from autumn, which no one can hold back?
Senzai Wakashu - Murasaki Shikibu
Kaerikomu hodo mo sadamenu wakareji wa miyako no teburi omoide ni seyo
On this parting road, with no time set for your return, keep the ways of the capital as your remembrance.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinzane
Yukusue o matsu beki mi koso oi ni kere wakare wa michi no tōki nomi ka wa
I who must wait for the days to come have grown old. Is the pain of parting only that the road is long? No, it is more than that.
Senzai Wakashu - Oe no Masafusa