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Naniwagata migiwa no ashi no itsu made ka ho wa idezu shimo aki o shinobamu
How long will the reeds by the water's edge at Naniwa Bay endure the autumn without putting forth their plumes? How long can I hide my love without letting it show?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tamaboko no michi wa tōku mo aranaku ni tabi to omoeba wabishikarikeri
The road is not so very long, and yet when I think of it as a journey, how lonely and forlorn I feel.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kusamakura tabi ni shi areba imo ni koi nemuru ma o nami yume sae miezu
Since I am on a journey with grass for my pillow, longing for my wife leaves me no time to sleep, and so she does not appear to me even in dreams.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kusamakura tabi ni shi areba karigomo no omoi midarete i koso nerarenu
Since I am on a journey with grass for my pillow, my thoughts are tangled like cut rushes, and I cannot sleep at all.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tabigoromo tamoto katashiki koyoi mo ya kusa no makura ni ware hitori nemu
Spreading out one sleeve of my travelling robe, must I sleep alone again tonight on a pillow of grass?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tabine suru Ise no hamaogi tsuyu nagara musubu makura ni yadoru tsukikage
Sleeping on my journey, I bind the beach reeds of Ise into a pillow still wet with dew, and in it the moonlight comes to lodge.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Azumaji no Saya no Nakayama koete inaba itodo miyako ya tōzakarinamu
Once I cross Saya no Nakayama on the eastern road, will the capital grow ever more distant behind me?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Minatokaze itaku na fuki so shinagadori Ina no mizuumi fune tomuru made
Wind of the harbour, do not blow so hard, until I can moor my boat on the lake of Ina.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Yara no saki tsukikage samushi okitsudori kamo to iu fune ukine surashimo
At Cape Yara the moonlight is cold; the boat called the Wild Duck seems to be sleeping afloat upon the waves.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Yo no naka wa tsune ni mo gamo na nagisa kogu ama no obune no tsunade kanashimo
Would that this world could stay forever as it is. The fishers' little boat, rowing along the shore and drawn by its rope, touches my heart so deeply.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tsuyu shigemi narawanu nobe no karigoromo koro shimo kanashi aki no yūgure
The dew lies so thick on these unfamiliar meadows that my hunting robe is soaked, and the hour itself is sad: an autumn evening.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Nobe wakenu sode dani tsuyu wa oku mono o tada kono goro no aki no yūgure
Even the sleeves of those who never push through the fields are wet with dew; how much more, then, at this season, in the autumn evening.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tabigoromo uraganashikaru yūgure no susono no tsuyu ni akikaze zo fuku
In my travelling robe, in the sorrowful twilight, the autumn wind blows across the dew of the foothill fields.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tabigoromo susono no tsuyu ni uragarete himo yūkaze ni shika zo nakunaru
My travelling robe is wet with the dew of the foothill fields where the leaf tips are withering, and as the day draws to evening and the wind blows, I hear a deer crying.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Aki mo haya sueno no hara ni naku shika no koe kiku toki zo tabi wa kanashiki
Autumn is already at its end, and it is when I hear the deer crying on the plain of Sueno that the journey becomes truly sad.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Hitori fusu kusa no makura no yoru no tsuyu wa tomo naki shika no namida narikeri
The night dew on my pillow of grass where I lie alone is the tears of a deer that has no companion.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo