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- Izayoi Nikki
Naozari ni mirume bakari o karimakura musubiokitsu to hito ni kataru na
Pillow I merely glanced at and borrowed for an hour: do not go telling anyone that we bound ourselves to each other.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Kiyomigata toshi furu iwa ni koto towamu nami no nureginu iku kasane kitsu
Let me put a question to the ancient rocks of Kiyomi Bay: how many layers of the waves' wet robes have you been made to wear?
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Narawazu yo yoso ni kikikoshi Kiyomigata araiso nami no kakaru nezame wa
I am not used to it: Kiyomi Bay, which I had only ever heard of, and a waking like this, with the waves of the rough shore breaking over me.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Ta ga kata ni nabikihatete ka Fuji no ne no keburi no sue no miezu naruramu
Toward whom has it drifted away for good, that the far end of Fuji's smoke can no longer be seen at all?
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Itsu no yo no fumoto no chiri ka Fuji no ne o yuki sae takaki yama to nashikemu
From what age's dust at its foot did Fuji rise to become a mountain so high that even the snow upon it lies high?
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Kuchihateshi Nagara no hashi o tsukurabaya Fuji no keburi mo tatazu narinaba
I would build again the long-rotted bridge of Nagara, now that even the smoke of Fuji has stopped rising.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Saewabinu yuki yori orosu Fujikawa no kawakaze kōru fuyu no koromode
I can bear the cold no longer: down from the snows the Fuji River comes, and the wind off it freezes the sleeves of my winter robe.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Kokoro kara oritatsu Tago no amagoromo hosanu urami to hito ni kataru na
It was my own heart that took me down into the water at Tago; so do not go telling anyone that the diver's robe is never dry, and call it a grievance.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Aware to ya Mishima no kami no miyabashira tada koko ni shimo megurikinikeri
Was it that the god of Mishima looked on me with pity? For here, of all places, my wandering has brought me at last.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Onozukara tsutaeshi ato mo aru mono o kami wa shiruramu Shikishima no michi
The traces handed down are there, plain enough; surely the god must know it, this way of Japanese song.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Tazunekite waga koekakaru Hakoneji o yama no kai aru shirube to zo omou
I have come seeking you, and the Hakone road I am about to climb: I take it as a guidance that makes the mountain worth the crossing.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Tamakushige Hakone no yama o isogedomo nao akegataki yokogumo no sora
However we hurry over the mountain of Hakone, the sky is slow to open, still barred with its long bank of cloud.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Yukashisa yo sonata no kumo o sobatatete yoso ni shinuru Ashigara no yama
How I should have liked to see it: Ashigara, whose clouds we have left standing off to one side, made a stranger to us.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Azumaji no Yusaka o koete miwataseba shioki nagaruru Hayakawa no mizu
Over the Yusaka pass on the eastern road, I look out and see the salt-wood going down with the current of the swift Hayakawa.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Ama no sumu sono sato no na mo shiranami no yosuru nagisa ni yado ya karamashi
I do not even know the name of this village of fisherfolk; shall I ask for lodging here, on a shore where the white waves come in?
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni
Uraji yuku kokorobososa o namima yori idete shirasuru ariake no tsuki
The forlornness of travelling these shore roads: it is the thin dawn moon, risen from between the waves, that tells me of it.
Izayoi Nikki - Abutsu-ni