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- Senzai Wakashu
Haru kureba chirinishi hana mo sakinikeri aware wakare no kakaramashikaba
Now that spring has come, even the flowers that scattered have bloomed once more. Ah, if only the partings of people could be like this too.
Senzai Wakashu - Prince Tomohira
Yukikaeri haru ya aware to omouran chigirishi hito no mata mo awaneba
Going and coming round again, does spring too feel this sorrow? For the one who promised to come will never meet us again.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintō
Ueokishi hito no katami to minu dani mo yado no sakura o tare ka oshimanu
Even without seeing it as a keepsake of the one who planted it, who would not regret the passing of this house's cherry blossoms? How much more, then, when it is his keepsake.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Norinaga
Oshiki kana katami ni kitaru fujigoromo tada kono koro ni kuchihatenu beshi
How I regret it: this mourning robe I wear as a keepsake of you will surely, within these very days, rot away with my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Kuchinashi no sono ni ya waga mi irinikemu omou koto o mo iwade yaminuru
Have I entered the garden of the gardenia, the "mouthless" flower? For I come to my end without ever voicing what lies in my heart.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Michinobu
Omoikane kinō no sora o nagamureba sore ka to miyuru kumo dani mo nashi
Unable to bear my grief, I gaze at the sky where yesterday we sent him off, but there is not even a cloud that I might take for him.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoritaka
Utsutsu to mo yume to mo e koso wakihatene izure no toki o izure to ka sen
I cannot tell at all whether this world is waking or a dream. Which moments should I call real, and which a dream?
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Kazan
Sakurabana miru ni mo kanashi nakanaka ni kotoshi no haru wa sakazu zo aramashi
Even to look at the cherry blossoms is sorrowful. Better by far if this spring they had not bloomed at all.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Michinari
Okureji to omoedo shinanu waga mi kana hitori ya shiranu michi o yukuran
I wish not to be left behind, yet I do not die. Are you now walking all alone along that unknown road?
Senzai Wakashu - Dōmyō
Oiraku no inochi no amari nagaku shite kimi ni futatabi wakarenuru kana
Because my aged life has lasted far too long, I have had to part from you, my lord, a second time.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagato
Hitokoe mo kimi ni tsugenan hototogisu kono samidare wa yami ni madou to
Cuckoo, with even one call tell him who is gone that in these early-summer rains I wander lost in the darkness of a parent's heart.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shōshi
Ayamegusa namida no tama ni nukikaete ori naranu ne o nao zo kaketsuru
The sweet flag of the herbal ball has had its beads restrung as beads of tears, and though it is out of season, it still hangs there with its roots, our sobbing cries.
Senzai Wakashu - Ben no Menoto
Tama nukishi ayame no kusa wa arinagara yodono wa aren mono to ya wa mishi
The sweet flags threaded with beads are still here, unchanged; did I ever dream that the night hall where she slept would fall to ruin like this?
Senzai Wakashu - Gō no Jijū
Kanashisa o katsu wa omoi mo nagusameyo tare mo tsui ni wa tomaru beki ka wa
Even as you grieve, try in part to console yourself. Who among us can stay in this world to the very end?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kenshi
Tare mo mina tomaru beki ni wa aranedomo okururu hodo wa nao zo kanashiki
It is true that no one can stay in this world forever, but while I am the one left behind, it is still sorrowful.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagaie
Ōkata ni sayakekaranu ka tsukikage wa namida kumoranu hito ni misebaya
Is the moonlight itself simply not clear for anyone? I wish I could show it to someone whose eyes are not clouded with tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Genshi