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- Gosen Wakashu
Asajiu no Ono no shinohara shinoburedo amarite nado ka hito no koishiki
Like the low bamboo of the reed-grown plain of Ono, I keep my love hidden—yet why does it overflow, and why do I long for you so?
Gosen Wakashu - Minamoto no Hitoshi
Ame yamanu noki no tamamizu kazu shirazu koishiki koto no masaru koro kana
Like the drops falling from the eaves in rain that never stops, beyond all counting, my longing grows ever greater these days.
Gosen Wakashu - Taira no Kanemori
Ise no umi ni haete mo amaru takunawa no nagaki kokoro wa ware zo masareru
Like a mulberry-fiber rope stretched out across the sea of Ise and still left over, it is I who have the longer heart.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Iro ni idete koisu chō na zo tachinubeki namida ni somuru sode no kokereba
The rumor that I am in love is sure to spread, showing in my color, for the sleeves I dye with tears have turned so deep a shade.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kaku kouru mono to shiriseba yoru wa okite akureba kiyuru tsuyu naramashi o
Had I known that love would be like this, I would rather have been the dew—awake and settling through the night, and vanishing at dawn.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ai mo mizu nageki mo somezu arishi toki omou koto koso mi ni nakarishika
In the days before we met, before I had begun to grieve, brooding was something I never knew.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Koi no goto warinaki mono wa nakarikeri katsu mutsuretsutsu katsu zo koishiki
Nothing is so beyond all reason as love: even while we are close together, I am already longing for you.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Watatsuumi ni fukaki kokoro no nakariseba nani ka wa kimi o uramishi mo sen
If my heart were not as deep as the sea, why would I ever resent you so?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Minakami ni inoru kai naku namidagawa ukite mo hito o yoso ni miru kana
My prayers to the god of the river's source were in vain; drifting in misery on a river of tears, I can only watch you from afar.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Inorikeru minakami sae zo urameshiki kyō yori hoka ni kage no mieneba
I resent even the god of the river's source to whom you prayed, for except for today, your image never appears.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Iro fukaku someshi tamoto no itodoshiku namida ni sae mo kosa masaru kana
My sleeves, already dyed a deep color, grow darker still, stained even by my tears.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Morosuke
Miru toki wa koto zo to mo naku minu toki wa koto arigao ni koishiki ya nazo
When we are together, it seems like nothing much; when we are apart, I long for you as if something were the matter—why is that?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yamazato no maki no itado mo sasazariki tanomeshi hito o machishi yoi yori
In my mountain home I never barred the door of fine pine boards, from the evening I began to wait for the one who promised to come.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yukukata mo naku sekaretaru yamamizu no iwamahoshiku mo omōyuru kana
Like mountain water dammed with nowhere to flow, pooling among the rocks, I find I long to speak my heart to you.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hito no ue no koto to shi ieba shiranu kana kimi mo koisuru ori mo koso are
When it concerns someone else, you know nothing of it; but a time may well come when you too are in love.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsurakaraba onaji kokoro ni tsurakaran tsurenaki hito o koin to mo sezu
If you are cruel, I will be cruel with the very same heart; I have no intention of loving someone so cold.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet