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- Sankashu
Itsu ka ware mukashi no hito to iwaru beki kasanaru toshi o okurimukaete
Someday I too will be spoken of as one of the people of long ago, as I see off and welcome in the years that pile up one upon another.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Awazaran koto oba shirade hahakigi no fuseya to kikite tazune kinikeri
Not knowing that you would never meet me, I heard you lived at Fuseya where the broom-tree grows, and came all this way to find you.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tatesomete kaeru kokoro wa nishikigi no chitsuka matsu beki kokochi koso sene
Turning back for home when I have only just begun to set up the painted sticks at your gate, I have no heart at all to wait until they number a thousand bundles.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Obotsukana ika ni to hito no kurehatori ayamuru made ni nururu sode kana
How anxious I am! My sleeves are so wet with tears that people wonder and ask what is the matter with me.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nakanaka ni yume ni ureshiki au koto wa utsutsu ni mono o omou narikeri
Meeting you joyfully in a dream, it turns out, only means that I must brood all the more over my love once I am awake.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Au to miru koto o kagireru yumeji nite samuru wakare no nakaramashikaba
Even on the road of dreams, where all I have is to see us meeting, if only there were no parting when I wake.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yume to nomi omoinasaruru utsutsu koso aimishi koto no kai nakarikere
Waking life itself, which I cannot help but take for a dream, makes the meeting we truly had seem all for nothing.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kesa yori zo hito no kokoro wa tsurakarade akehanareyuku sora o uramuru
From this morning on it is not your heart I find cruel; instead I resent the sky as it grows fully light.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Au koto o shinobazariseba michishiba no tsuyu yori saki ni okite komashi ya
Had we not had to keep our meeting hidden, would I have risen and come home even before the dew had settled on the wayside grass?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Saranu dani kaeriyararenu shinonome ni soete katarau hototogisu kana
In the dawn, when even without it I could hardly bring myself to leave, the cuckoo adds its voice and seems to speak to me.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kasanete wa koiemahoshiki utsuriga o hanatachibana ni kesa taguetsutsu
Longing to receive once more the scent of you left on my robes, this morning I keep comparing it to the fragrance of the orange blossoms.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yasurawan ōkata no yo wa akenu tomo yami to ka ieru kiri ni komorite
Let me linger. Even if the night has ended for the rest of the world, I will stay hidden in this mist so deep it might be called darkness.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kotozukete kesa no wakare o yasurawan shigure o sae ya sode ni kaku beki
Using the rain as my excuse, let me put off this morning's parting. Must I let the winter rain fall on my sleeves as well as my tears?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuraku tomo awazu wa nani no narai ni ka mi no hodo shirazu hito o uramin
However cold you may be, had we never met at all, what habit would lead me to resent you, forgetting my own station?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Saraba tada sarade zo hito no yaminamashi sate nochi mo sa wa sa mo araji to ya
If that is how it is, you should simply have ended it without ever meeting me. Are you saying that, after this, it will never be so again?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Morasaji to sode ni amaru o tsutsumamashi nasake o shinobu namida nariseba
I would wrap away the tears that overflow my sleeves so that none could see them, if only they were tears of secret longing for your kindness.
Sankashu - Saigyō