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- Senzai Wakashu
Wakarete mo kokoro hedatsu na tabigoromo ikue kasanaru yamaji nari tomo
Even though we part, do not set your heart apart from mine, though mountain roads may lie between us, layered fold upon fold like a traveler's robes.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Ariake no tsuki mo shimizu ni yadorikeri koyoi wa koeji Ōsaka no seki
The lingering dawn moon too has taken lodging in the clear spring; tonight I will not cross the Ōsaka Barrier.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Norinaga
Harimaji ya Suma no sekiya no itabisashi tsuki more tote ya mabara naru ran
The board eaves of the barrier hut at Suma on the road to Harima—are they laid so sparsely so that the moonlight may slip through?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Morotoshi
Atarayo o Ise no hamaogi orishikite imo koishira ni mitsuru tsuki kana
On this night too precious to waste, I broke the beach reeds of Ise to make my bed, and gazed upon the moon longing for my wife.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Nami no ue ni ariake no tsuki o mimashi ya wa Suma no sekiya ni tomarazariseba
Would I ever have seen the dawn moon lingering above the waves, had I not stopped for the night at the barrier hut of Suma?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Kunizane
Yonayona no tabine no toko ni kaze saete hatsuyuki fureru Saya no Nakayama
Night after night the wind grows colder over my traveler's bed, and now the first snow has fallen on the pass of Saya no Nakayama.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneyuki
Mizu no ue ni ukine o shite zo omoishiru kakareba oshi mo naku ni zo arikeru
Only by sleeping afloat on the water, in sorrow, have I come to understand: it is because it is like this that even the mandarin ducks cry.
Senzai Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Omou koto nakute zo mimashi Yosa no umi no Ama no Hashidate miyako nariseba
I could gaze on it free of every care, if only the Bridge of Heaven on the Yosa Sea were in the capital.
Senzai Wakashu - Akazome Emon
Miyaki hiku Atsusa no soma o kakiwakete Naniwa no ura o tōzakarinuru
Pushing my way through the timber forest of Atsusa, where wood is hauled for palaces, I have come far from the bay of Naniwa.
Senzai Wakashu - Nōin
Suminoe ni matsuramu to nomi nagekitsutsu kokoro tsukushi ni toshi o furu kana
Thinking only that they must be waiting for me at Suminoe, I grieve, and wear my heart out here in Tsukushi as the years go by.
Senzai Wakashu - Tsumori no Arimoto
Wakareyuku miyako no kata no koishiki ni iza musubimimu Wasurei no mizu
Because I long for the capital I am leaving behind, come, let me cup my hands and drink the water of the Well of Forgetting.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigū no Kai
Sayo fukaki kumoi ni kari mo otosu nari ware hitori ya wa tabi no sora naru
Deep in the night, the wild geese too call as they pass through the clouds. Am I alone beneath a traveler's sky? No, I am not.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masamitsu
Karigoromo sode no namida ni yadoru yo wa tsuki mo tabine no kokochi koso sure
On nights when the moon finds lodging in the tears on the sleeve of my traveling robe, it seems that the moon too is spending the night on a journey.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Sutoku
Matsugane no makura mo nani ka ada naramu tama no yuka tote tsune no toko ka wa
Why should a pillow of pine roots be thought fleeting? Even a jeweled bed in a palace—is it a bed that lasts forever? It is not.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Sutoku
Hana sakishi nobe no keshiki mo shimogarenu kore nite zo shiru tabi no hikazu wa
The fields where flowers once bloomed have now withered under the frost; by this I know how many days my journey has lasted.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinyoshi
Sarashina ya Obasuteyama ni tsuki miru to miyako ni tare ka ware o shiru ran
Who in the capital could know that I am gazing at the moon on Mount Obasute in Sarashina?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Suemichi