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- Senzai Wakashu
Mitose made nareshi wa yume no kokochi shite kyō zo utsutsu no wakare narikeru
The three years we were close now seem to me like a dream, and it is today that our parting has become real.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sueyoshi
Irinuru ka akanu wakare no kanashisa o omoishire to ya yama no ha no tsuki
Have you sunk out of sight already? Moon on the mountain's rim, do you mean to make me understand the sorrow of a parting I can never have enough of?
Senzai Wakashu - Inshō
Nobe mireba mukashi no ato ya tare naramu sono yo mo shiranu koke no shita kana
When I look across the moor, I wonder whose these old graves are. Beneath their moss, not even the age in which they lived is known.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagonori
Nanigoto no fukaki omoi ni Izumigawa soko no tamamo to shizumihateken
What deep sorrow was it that made you sink to the bottom of the Izumi River, to lie there like the jewel-like water weeds?
Senzai Wakashu - Hangen
Omoiki ya kyō uchinarasu kane no oto ni tsutaeshi fue no ne o soen to wa
Did I ever imagine that today, to the sound of the bell we ring for you, I would add the sound of the flute you passed on to me?
Senzai Wakashu - Jōsei
Sakidatamu koto o ushi to zo omoishi ni okurete mo mata kanashikarikeri
I had thought it would be bitter to die before my mother, yet being left behind by her, I find, is sorrowful too.
Senzai Wakashu - Jōen
Matsuramu to omowaba ika ni isogamashi ato o mi ni dani madou kokoro o
If I could think you were waiting for me, how much more I would hurry, when even now, going only to see what you have left behind, my heart is in turmoil.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Chikamori
Yama no ha ni tanabiku kumo ya yukue naku narishi keburi no katami naruran
Is the cloud trailing along the mountain's rim a keepsake of the smoke that vanished, no one knows where?
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuren
Toshi o hete mukashi o shinobu kokoro nomi uki ni tsukete mo Fukakusa no sato
Though the years go by, my heart that longs for the past only grows deeper with every sorrow, here in the village of Fukakusa, "deep grass."
Senzai Wakashu - Chōshin
Tarachime ya tomarite ware o oshimamashi kawaru ni kawaru inochi nariseba
Would my mother have stayed on in this world to grieve for me, if only one life could be given in exchange for another?
Senzai Wakashu - Kenshō
Morotomo ni nagame nagamete aki no tsuki hitori ni naramu koto zo kanashiki
Autumn moon that we have gazed on together again and again, how sad that from now on I will be left to watch you alone.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigyō
Midarezu to owari kiku koso ureshikere satemo wakare wa nagusamanedomo
I am glad to hear that he met his end with an untroubled mind, though even so the sorrow of parting will not be consoled.
Senzai Wakashu - Jakuzen
Kono yo nite mata au majiki kanashisa ni susumeshi hito zo kokoro midareshi
In my grief that we shall never meet again in this world, it was I, the one who urged him to keep his mind on the Buddha, whose heart fell into disarray.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigyō
Ikuchiyo to kagirazarikeru kuretake ya kimi ga yowai no tagui naruran
The black bamboo, which has flourished for countless thousands of ages without limit, must surely be the companion of my lord's long life.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa
Uete miru magaki no take no fushigoto ni komoreru chiyo wa kimi zo kazoen
The thousand ages hidden in every joint of the bamboo by the fence, which I planted and now gaze upon, are for you, my lord, to count.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiminori
Waga tomo to kimi ga mikaki no kuretake wa chiyo ni ikuyo no kage o souran
The black bamboo that you have planted by your fence as your friend will surely add age upon age of its shade to your thousand years.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei