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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Shigure no ame somekanetekeri yamashiro no tokiwa no mori no maki no shitaba wa
Even the rain of the winter showers could not dye them—the lower leaves of the maki trees in the Grove of Tokiwa, the Evergreen Grove of Yamashiro.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Nōin
Fuyu o asami mataku shigure to omoishi o taezarikeri na oi no namida mo
Since winter had barely begun, I took it all for the winter showers—yet they never ceased, for the tears of old age were falling too.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kiyohara no Motosuke
Mabara naru shiba no iori ni tabine shite shigure ni nururu sayogoromo kana
Sleeping on my journey in a brushwood hut full of gaps, I find my night robe wet with the winter showers.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa
Yayo shigure mono omou sode no nakariseba konoha no nochi ni nani o somemashi
Listen, winter showers: if there were no sleeves of one lost in brooding thought, what would you find to dye once the leaves are gone?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Fukamidori arasoikanete ika naran ma naku shigure no furu no kamisugi
What will become of the deep green of the sacred cedars of Furu, unable to hold out against the winter showers that fall on them without pause?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Go-Toba In
Shigure no ame ma naku shi fureba maki no ha mo arasoikanete irozukinikeri
Because the rain of the winter showers falls without pause, even the leaves of the fine maki trees could not hold out, and have taken on color.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Yo no naka ni nao mo furu kana shiguretsutsu kumoma no tsuki no ide ya to omoedo
Still I linger on in this world, as the winter showers keep falling—though, like the moon slipping out between the clouds, I think again and again that I should leave it all behind.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Ori koso are nagame ni kakaru ukigumo no sode mo hitotsu ni uchishiguretsutsu
Of all times, just now, the drifting clouds that hang over the sky I gaze at in brooding thought let fall their showers, and my sleeves, become one with that sky, are wet with showers again and again.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Nijoin no Sanuki
Akishino ya toyama no sato ya shigururan ikoma no take ni kumo no kakareru
Are the winter showers falling now in the village of Akishino at the foot of the hills? Clouds are hanging over the peak of Ikoma.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Hare kumori shigure wa sadame naki mono o furihatenuru wa waga mi narikeri
Now clearing, now clouding over, the winter showers never keep to any fixed course—yet what has fallen away for good, grown utterly old, is none other than I myself.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Dōin
Ima wa mata chirade mo magau shigure kana hitori furiyuku niwa no matsukaze
Now, though no more leaves are falling, there is again something I mistake for the winter showers: the wind in the garden pines, falling alone like rain as the old trees grow older still.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Tomochika
Miyoshino no yama kakikumori yuki fureba fumoto no sato wa uchishiguretsutsu
When the mountains of Yoshino darken with cloud and the snow comes down, in the village at their foot the winter showers keep on falling.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Shun'e
Maki no ya ni shigure no oto no kawaru kana momiji ya fukaku chiritsumoruran
The sound of the winter showers on my roof of cedar boards has changed. Could it be that the crimson leaves have fallen and piled up deep upon it?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sanjō Sanefusa
Yo ni furu wa kurushiki mono o maki no ya ni yasuku mo suguru hatsushigure kana
To pass one's days in this world is hard and bitter, yet how lightly the first winter shower passes over my roof of cedar boards!
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Nijoin no Sanuki
Honobono to ariake no tsuki no tsukikage ni momiji fukiorosu yamaoroshi no kaze
In the faint light of the moon lingering at dawn, the wind sweeping down from the mountains blows the crimson leaves down with it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Saneakira
Momijiba o nani oshimiken ko no ma yori morikuru tsuki wa koyoi koso mire
Why did I ever grieve over the crimson leaves? Tonight, at last, I can see the moonlight stealing through between the bare trees.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Prince Tomohira