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- Senzai Wakashu
Wasuru na yo kaeru yamaji ni ato taete hikazu wa yuki no furitsumoru tomo
Do not forget me, even if on the road over Mount Kaeru all tracks vanish, and the days apart pile up like the falling snow.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Kaerikomu hodo o ba itsu to iiokaji sadame naki mi wa hitodanome nari
I will not leave word of when I shall return. One whose fate is never certain would only give others false hope.
Senzai Wakashu - Gyōson
Tanomuredo kokoro kawarite kaeriko ba kore zo yagate no wakare naru beki
I rely on your return, but if you come back with your heart changed, then this parting will surely prove to be our final one.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisuke
Kagiri aramu michi koso arame kono yo nite wakarubeshi to wa omowazarishi o
If it were the road on which life comes to its end, I could accept it; but I never dreamed that we would have to part while still in this world.
Senzai Wakashu - Jōsaimon'in no Hyōe
Yuku kimi o todome mahoshiku omou kana ware mo koishiki miyako naredomo
How I wish I could keep you from leaving, though the capital is a place that I too long for.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsunehira
Toshi hetaru hito no kokoro o omoiyare kimi dani kouru hana no miyako o
Think how I must feel after so many years away, when even you long for the flowering capital.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Suketada
Morotomo ni yuku hito mo naki wakareji ni namida bakari zo tomarazarikeru
On this road of parting where no one walks beside me, only my tears refused to stay behind and kept on flowing.
Senzai Wakashu - Dōmyō
Nagaraete aru beki mi to shi omowaneba wasuru na to dani e koso chigirane
Since I do not expect to live much longer, I cannot even make you promise not to forget me.
Senzai Wakashu - Genshin
Aware to shi omowamu hito wa wakareji o kokoro wa mi yori hoka no mono ka wa
If you truly held me dear, you would not part from me. Is the heart something apart from the body? Surely not.
Senzai Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Wakarete mo onaji miyako ni arishikaba ito kono tabi no kokochi ya wa seshi
Though we had parted, we still lived in the same capital, so did I ever feel such pain as I do now at this journey of yours? Never.
Senzai Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Shinobedomo kono wakareji o omou ni wa karakurenai no namida koso fure
Try as I may to endure it, when I think of this road of parting, tears of deep Chinese crimson come raining down.
Senzai Wakashu - Mother of the Monk Jōjin
Kokoro o mo kimi o mo yado ni todomeokite namida to tomo ni izuru tabi kana
Leaving both my heart and you behind at home, I set out on this journey with only my tears for company.
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuga
Mate to iite tanomeshi aki mo suginureba kaeru yamaji no na zo kai mo naki
You told me to wait and made me count on autumn, but autumn too has passed, and the very name of the Kaeru road, "Return," has proved worthless.
Senzai Wakashu - Saijū
Oshieoku katami o fukaku shinobanan mi wa aoumi no nami ni nagarenu
Treasure deeply what I leave you as a keepsake of my teaching, for I myself am being carried away on the waves of the blue sea.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Moronaga
Arazu nomi nariyuku tabi no wakareji ni tenareshi koto no ne koso kawarane
On this road of parting, where everything becomes other than it was, only the sound of the koto so familiar to my hand remains unchanged.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanesada
Wasuru na yo Obasuteyama no tsuki mite mo miyako o izuru ariake no sora
Even when you look upon the moon over Mount Obasute, do not forget this sky of the lingering dawn moon under which you left the capital.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yorizane