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- Gosen Wakashu
Karakoromo kite kaerinishi sayo sugara aware to omou o uramuran hata
You came, and went home again, and all that night I thought of you with tender feeling; even so, do you resent me still?
Gosen Wakashu - Princess Fushi
Kage dani mo miezu nariyuku yama no i wa asaki yori mata mizu ya taenishi
The mountain well no longer shows even a reflection: shallow from the start, has its water now run out as well?
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Menoto
Asashi chō koto o yuyushimi yama no i wa horishi nigori ni kage wa mienu zo
Dreading to be called shallow, I dug the mountain well deeper; it is the mud from that digging that keeps any reflection from showing.
Gosen Wakashu - Taira no Sadafun
Ikutabi ka Ikuta no ura ni tachikaeri nami ni waga mi o uchinurasuran
How many times must I go back to the shore of Ikuta, only to let the waves soak me through?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tachikaeri nurete wa hinuru shio nareba Ikuta no ura no saga to koso mire
The tide comes back again and again, wet and then dry once more; I see that as simply the way of the shore at Ikuta.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto wa itodo kumoi no ōzora ni tatsu na nomi shite yaminu bakari ka
Our meeting has grown as remote as clouds in the vast sky; only rumors of us rise, and will it all simply end at that?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yoso nagara yaman to mo sezu au koto wa ima koso kumo no taema naru rame
I have no wish to let it end while we stay apart; as for our meeting, surely now is the moment when the clouds will part.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ima nomi to tanomu naredomo shirakumo no taema wa itsu ka aran to suran
You say now is the time, and I would trust it; but when, I wonder, will there ever be a break in the white clouds?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Oyami sezu ame sae fureba sawamizu no masaruran to mo omōyuru kana
Since the rain falls on without a pause, I cannot help feeling that the water in the marshes must be rising higher and higher.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yume ni dani miru koto zo naki toshi o hete kokoro nodoka ni nuru yo nakereba
I never see you, not even in dreams, for in all these years there has not been a night when I slept with a heart at peace.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Misomezu te aramashi mono o karakoromo tatsu na nomi shite kiru yo naki kana
It would have been better never to have seen you; like a fine robe that is cut and never worn, rumors alone have risen, and there is no night when we lie together.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Karehatsuru hana no kokoro wa tsurakarade toki suginikeru mi o zo uramuru
I do not blame the heart of the flower that withers and draws away; it is myself, my season past, that I resent.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ada ni koso chiru to miru rame kimi ni mina utsuroinitaru hana no kokoro o
You must think it has scattered in fickleness—yet the heart of the flower has faded only by passing wholly over to you.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kon to iishi tsukihi o sugusu Obasute no yama no ha tsuraki mono ni zo arikeru
You let slip the months and days by which you said you would come; like the mountain rim of Obasute that hides the moon, how cruel you have been.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsukihi o mo kazoekeru kana kimi kouru kazu o mo shiranu waga mi nani nari
So you have been counting even the months and days! Then what am I, who longs for you more times than I could ever count?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Konome haru haru no yamada o uchikaeshi omoiyaminishi hito zo koishiki
As the mountain fields are turned again and again in spring, when the buds are swelling, so over and over I long for the one I had given up.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet