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- Kinyo Wakashu
Kasatori no yama ni yo o furu mi ni shi areba sumiyaki mo oru waga kokoro kana
Since I am one who passes my days on Mount Kasatori, my heart is like one that burns charcoal and breaks branches, smoldering and broken.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ōko naki mono to shiru shiru nani ni ka wa nageki o yama to kori wa tsumuramu
Knowing all along there is no carrying pole, no chance to meet, why do I cut grief like firewood and pile it up as high as a mountain?
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hakarumeru koto no yoki nomi ōkereba soranageki oba koru ni ya aruramu
Since your words are so full of fine and cunning skill, like an axe, I wonder whether you are not chopping out false grief like firewood.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto no ima wa katami no me o arami morite nagaremu na koso oshikere
Meeting is now so hard, and like water through a loosely woven basket, my name seeps out and flows away; that is what I most regret.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto wa kataneburi naru isohitai hinerifusu tomo kai ya nakaramu
Meeting is so hard; sleeping fitfully alone, though I writhe and toss at the edge of the rocky shore, there will be no shell, no worth in it at all.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto no Katano ni ima wa narinureba omou kari nomi yuku ni ya aruramu
Since meeting has become as hard to reach as the hunting fields of Katano, is it only my longing that goes out to hunt there?
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ōmi ni ka ari to iu naru Karehiyama kimi wa koekeri hito to nekusashi
There is said to be a Mount Karehi in Ōmi; you have crossed it, I see, for you smell of having slept with someone else.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto wa nagame furuya no itabisashi sasuga ni kakete toshi no henuramu
With no chance to meet, I sit gazing through the long rains beneath the board eaves of my aging house; and still, holding you in my heart, the years have gone by.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kashikamashi yama no shita yuku sazaremizu anakama ware mo omou kokoro ari
How noisy you are, little stream running below the mountain; hush now, for I too have something on my mind.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Nusubito to iu mo kotowari sayonaka ni kimi ga kokoro o tori ni kitareba
It is only fair to call me a thief, for in the dead of night I came to steal your heart.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hanaurushi ko ya nuru hito no nakarikeru ana haraguro no kimi ga kokoro ya
Like fine flower-lacquer, was there no one to lay it on, no one to lie beside you? Ah, how black your heart is.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto o tou ishigami no tsurenasa ni waga kokoro nomi ugokinuru kana
I asked the stone god whether we would meet, but it stayed unmoved and cold, and only my own heart was stirred and shaken.
Kinyo Wakashu - Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Kazu naranu mi o Ujigawa no hashibashi to iwarenagara mo koiwataru kana
Though I count for nothing and grieve over myself like the river at Uji, and am called a thing of no account like the ends of its bridges, still I go on loving you.
Tamatsushima kishi utsu nami no tachikaeri sena idemashinu nagori sabishi mo
Like the waves that break on the shore of Tamatsushima and then draw back, my husband has gone away, and how lonely is all he has left behind.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisue
Au koto wa funabito yowami kogu fune no mio sakanoboru kokochi koso sure
Meeting you feels like a boat whose oarsmen are too weak, rowing up against the channel, my very self pressing against the current.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinzane
Kokoro kara tsukinaki koi o sezariseba awade yami ni wa madowazaramashi
Had I not, of my own will, fallen into this moonless, hopeless love, I would not now be lost in the darkness of a love that ends without our meeting.