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- Kinyo Wakashu
Seki mo aenu namida no kawa wa hayakeredo mi no ukikusa wa nagarezarikeri
The river of my tears, which I cannot hold back, runs swiftly, yet the floating weeds of my sorrowful self are never carried away.
Kinyo Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Tamakushige kakego ni chiri mo suezarishi futaoya nagara naki mi to o shire
Know that I have lost both of the parents who raised me with such care that not a speck of dust was allowed to settle in the tray of the jeweled comb box.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Mi ni masaru mono nakarikeri midorigo wa yaramu kata naku kanashikeredomo
There is nothing dearer than one's own self, though my little child is so precious to me that I know no way to bear it.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Nagarete mo ause arikeri namidagawa kienishi awa o nani ni tatoemu
Even as the river of tears flows on, there are shallows where people meet again; but the foam that has vanished, to what can I compare it?
Kuretake no fushi shizuminuru tsuyu no mi mo tou koto no ha ni oki zo iraruru
Even I, fleeting as the dew, who lay sunk in grief like the joints of the bamboo, can rise and sit up again at your words of comfort.
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yoso nagara yo o somukinu to kiku kara ni koshiji no sora wa uchishigure tsutsu
Far away though I am, the moment I heard that you had renounced the world, the sky over the Koshi road began to fall in cold showers.
Tarachime no nageki o tsumite waga kaku omoi no shita ni naru zo kanashiki
How sad it is that, having heaped grief upon my mother like kindling, I should now lie beneath the funeral fire.
Sono yume o towaba nageki ya masaru tote odorokasade mo suginikeru kana
Thinking that asking about that dreamlike event would only deepen your grief, I let the time pass without stirring you with a message.
Kinyo Wakashu - Oe no Masafusa
Inishie wa tsuki o nomi koso nagameshika ima wa hi o matsu waga mi narikeri
Long ago I spent my time gazing only at the moon, but now I have become one who waits for the day.
Kinyo Wakashu - Daini no Sanmi
Yume ni nomi mukashi no hito o aimireba samuru hodo koso wakare narikere
Since I meet the one long gone only in my dreams, the moment of waking is itself our parting.
Kinyo Wakashu - Yoen
Tsuyu no mi no kie mo hatenaba natsukusa no haha ika ni shite aramu to suramu
If my dewlike life should vanish completely, how will my mother, left behind like the leaves of summer grass, go on living?
Kinyo Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Morotomo ni koke no shita ni mo kuchi mo sede uzumorenu na o miru zo kanashiki
How sad it is to see her name, which has not rotted away beneath the moss along with her, but remains unburied.
Kinyo Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Ima zo shiru omoi no hate wa yo no naka no ukigumo ni nomi majiru mono to wa
Now I know it at last: the fire of longing ends only by mingling with the sorrowful drifting clouds of this world.
Sadame naki yo o ukigumo zo aware naru tanomishi kimi ga keburi to omoeba
The drifting clouds that make this uncertain world so sorrowful move me deeply, for I think of them as the smoke of you, on whom I relied.
Kusaki made omoikeri tomo miyuru kana matsu sae fuji no koromo kitekeri
It seems that even the grass and trees grieve for the departed, for even the pine has donned robes of wisteria, the garb of mourning.
Kinyo Wakashu - Gyōson
Kanashisa no sono yūgure no mama naraba arihete hito ni towaremashi ya wa
Had my sorrow remained as it was that evening, would I have lived on to be visited and asked after by anyone?