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- Kinyo Wakashu
Shirakumo to yoso ni mitsureba ashihiki no yama mo todoro ni otsuru takitsuse
Seen from afar, I took it for a white cloud, but here it is a cascade plunging down so mightily that the very mountain roars.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Tsunenobu
Ama no gawa kore ya nagare no sue naramu sora yori otsuru Nunobiki no taki
Could this be where the River of Heaven at last comes to its end, the Nunobiki Falls that plunge down from the sky?
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kamigaki wa ki no marodono ni aranedomo nanori o seneba hito togamekeri
This shrine fence is no Log Palace, yet because I did not announce my name, someone stopped and questioned me.
Kamigaki no atari to omou ni yūdasuki omoi mo kakenu kane no koe kana
I thought I was near the sacred fence of a shrine, yet how unexpectedly there comes the sound of a temple bell.
Kaesaji to kanete shiriniki karakoromo koishikarubeki waga mi naraneba
I knew all along you would not turn your robe inside out for me, for I am not someone you would ever long for.
Ōeyama Ikuno no michi no tōkereba mada fumi mo mizu Ama no Hashidate
The road that crosses Mount Ōe and passes through Ikuno is so long that I have never yet set foot on Ama no Hashidate, nor seen any letter from there.
Kinyo Wakashu - Koshikibu no Naishi
Isona tsumu irie no nami no tachikaeri kimi miru made no inochi to mogana
Like the waves that ebb and flow in the inlet where seaweed is gathered, may my life last until I come back and see you again.
Nagai suru ama no shiwaza to miru kara ni sode no ura ni mo mitsu namida kana
As soon as I see that it is the doing of the fisherfolk who linger on, tears flood even my sleeves like the tide filling the Bay of Sleeves.
Utatane no yume nakariseba wakarenishi mukashi no hito o mata mo mimashi ya
Had there been no dream in my light doze, would I ever have seen again the one from long ago from whom I was parted?
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisue
Sayonaka ni omoeba kanashi Michinoku no Asaka no numa ni tabine shinikeri
How sad it is when I think of it in the dead of night: here I am, sleeping on a journey by the marshes of Asaka in far Michinoku.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Moroyori
Ie no kaze fukanu mono yue Hazukashi no mori no koto no ha chirashihatetsuru
Though the wind of our family's art does not blow in me, I have scattered all my words like leaves from the Wood of Shame.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisuke
Sagi no iru matsubara ika ni sawaguramu shirage wa utate sato toyomu nari
How the pine grove where the herons roost must be in an uproar, for the pounding of rice resounds so harshly through the village.
Kinyo Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Azusayumi sa koso wa sori no takakarame haru hodo mo naku kaeru beshi ya wa
Like a catalpa bow you must hold your head high, yet should you go back home so soon, when spring has hardly come, like a bow that springs back before it is even drawn?
Nakina ni zo hito no tsurasa wa shirarekeru wasurareshi ni wa mi o zo urami shi
It was through a groundless rumor that I learned how heartless you are; when you forgot me before, I blamed only myself.
Kinyo Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinzane
Ika ni semu yamada ni kakou kakishiba no shibashi no ma dani kakurenaki yo o
What am I to do in this world where, like the brushwood fence around a mountain field, I cannot stay hidden even for a little while?
Kinyo Wakashu - Sagami
Wasurarete nageku tamoto o miru kara ni sa mo aranu sode no shiorenuru kana
As soon as I see your sleeve soaked with grief at being forgotten, even my own sleeve, though I am not in your plight, is drenched with tears.