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- Kokin Wakashu
Kaze fukeba mine ni wakaruru shirakumo no taete tsurenaki kimi ga kokoro ka
Like the white clouds that part from the mountain peak when the wind blows, your heart has broken off from me and grown completely cold.
Kokin Wakashu - Mibu no Tadamine
Tsukikage ni waga mi o kauru mono naraba tsurenaki hito mo aware to ya mimu
If only I could turn myself into moonlight, would even the one who is so cold to me then look on me with tender feeling?
Kokin Wakashu - Mibu no Tadamine
Koishinaba ta ga na wa tataji yo no naka no tsune naki mono to iihanasu tomo
If I die of love, whose name but yours will people whisper? Even if you try to explain it away as just the impermanence of this world.
Kokin Wakashu - Kiyohara no Fukayabu
Tsu no kuni no Naniwa no ashi no me mo haru ni shigeki waga koi hito shirurame ya
Like the reeds of Naniwa in the land of Tsu, budding and spreading as far as the eye can see, my love grows thick and dense; does she know of it at all?
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Te mo furede tsukihi henikeru shiramayumi okifushi yoru wa i koso nerarene
Like a bow of white spindlewood left untouched as the months and days go by, laid down and set aside, I rise and lie down again and cannot sleep through the night.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Hito shirenu omoi nomi koso wabishikere waga nageki oba ware nomi zo shiru
Nothing is as painful as a love no one knows of; my grief is something I alone know.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Koto ni idete iwanu bakari zo Minasegawa shita ni kayoite koishiki mono o
It is only that I do not put it into words. Like the Minase River, whose waters flow unseen beneath the sand, my heart runs to you in secret, filled with longing.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tomonori
Kimi o nomi omoine ni neshi yume nareba waga kokoro kara mitsuru narikeri
Because I fell asleep thinking only of you, the dream I had was born not of your longing, but of my own heart.
Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Inochi ni mo masarite oshiku aru mono wa mihatenu yume no samuru narikeri
Even more precious than life itself, what I most hate to lose is waking from a dream before I have seen it through.
Kokin Wakashu - Mibu no Tadamine
Azusayumi hikeba motosue waga kata ni yoru koso masare koi no kokoro wa
Just as both ends of a catalpa bow bend toward me when I draw it, so at night the longing of my heart only grows stronger.
Kokin Wakashu - Harumichi no Toshi
Waga koi wa yukue mo shirazu hate mo nashi au o kagiri to omou bakari zo
My love does not know where it is heading, and it has no end; all I can think is that meeting you would be the end of everything.
Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Ware nomi zo kanashikarikeru hikoboshi mo awade sugoseru toshi shi nakereba
I alone am truly sad; for even the Herdsman Star has never let a year go by without meeting his beloved.
Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Ima wa haya koishinamashi o aimimu to tanomeshi yume zo inochi narikeru
By now I would surely have died of longing; it was the dream that gave me hope we would meet that has kept me alive.
Kokin Wakashu - Kiyohara no Fukayabu
Tanometsutsu awade toshi furu itsuwari ni korinu kokoro o hito wa shiranamu
You keep raising my hopes, yet the years go by without our meeting; I wish you would understand that my heart has not been cured of you despite all your deceit.
Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Inochi ya wa nani zo wa tsuyu no adamono o au ni shi kaeba oshikaranaku ni
What is life, after all? It is nothing but a fleeting thing, fragile as dew. If I could trade it for a meeting with you, I would not regret losing it.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tomonori
Okimo sezu nemo sede yoru o akashite wa haru no mono tote nagame kurashitsu
Neither truly awake nor truly asleep, I let the night slip into dawn; and then, gazing at the long rains that belong to spring, I passed the whole day lost in brooding thought.
Kokin Wakashu - Ariwara no Narihira