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- Genji Monogatari
Fukimayou miyamaoroshi ni yume samete
namida moyōsu taki no oto kana
Woken from my dream by the wind sweeping down off the deep hills, I hear the waterfall, and it draws the tears out of me.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Sashigumi ni sode nurashikeru yamamizu ni
sumeru kokoro wa sawagi ya wa suru
At this mountain water that has suddenly wet your sleeve, would a heart long settled and clear here ever be stirred?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Miyabito ni yukite kataramu yamazakura
kaze yori saki ni kite mo mirubeku
I shall go back and tell them at the palace of this mountain cherry, so that they may come and see it before the wind does.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Udonge no hana machietaru kokochi shite
miyamazakura ni me koso utsurane
It is as if I had waited and at last been granted the udumbara flower; my eyes will not turn even to the cherries of these deep hills.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Okuyama no matsu no toboso o mare ni akete
mada minu hana no kao o miru kana
Opening for once the pine door of these deep hills, I have looked on a flowering face I had never seen before.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Yūmagure honoka ni hana no iro o mite
kesa wa kasumi no tachi zo wazurau
Having glimpsed that flower's color faintly in the dusk, I find this morning that the rising mist makes it hard to set out.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Makoto ni ya hana no atari wa tachiuki to
kasumuru sora no keshiki o mo mimu
Is it really true that you find it hard to leave where the flower stands? I shall watch the look of that misted sky and see.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Omokage wa mi o mo hanarezu yamazakura
kokoro no kagiri tomete koshikado
Her face will not leave me for a moment—that mountain cherry—though I left every part of my heart behind there with it.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Arashi fuku onoe no sakura chiranu ma o
kokoro tomekeru hodo no hakanasa
Your heart stays with those ridge-top cherries only while the storm has not yet scattered them—and how frail a love that is.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Asakayama asaku mo hito o omowanu ni
nado yama no i no kakehanaruramu
I do not think of you shallowly, whatever Mount Asaka's name may say—so why does the mountain well keep its reflection so far from me?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Kumisomete kuyashi to kikishi yama no i no
asaki nagara ya kage o mirubeki
That mountain well one is said to regret ever drawing from—while it stays so shallow, how should anyone be shown a reflection in it?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Mite mo mata au yo mare naru yume no uchi ni
yagate magiruru waga mi tomogana
Even now that we have met, such nights come so rarely—let this body of mine simply lose itself here inside the dream.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Yogatari ni hito ya tsutaemu tagui naku
uki mi o samenu yume ni nashite mo
Will people hand this down as a tale of the world, even if I make of my incomparable misery a dream that never ends?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Iwakenaki tazu no hitokoe kikishi yori
ashima ni nazumu fune zo e naranu
Ever since I heard that one cry of the young crane, I have been like a boat caught among the reeds, unable to go on and unable to bear it.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Te ni tsumite itsushika mo mimu murasaki no
ne ni kayoikeru nobe no wakakusa
How soon may I pluck with my own hand and keep this young grass of the fields, whose roots run down to the roots of the purple gromwell?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Ashiwaka no ura ni mirume wa kataku tomo
ko wa tachinagara kaeru nami ka wa
Hard as it is to find the seaweed in Ashiwaka bay, am I a wave that merely rises and falls back with nothing?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu