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Yamazakura minenimoonimo ueokan minuyonoharuo hitoyashinobuto
I will plant mountain cherries on every ridge and spur, wondering whether in a spring I shall never see someone will remember.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Kintsune
Kuchihatsuru oikinisakeru hanazakura miniyosoetemo kyōwakazasan
Blossoms on a tree rotting quite away: even if I must liken myself to it, today I shall set them in my hair.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Kokonoeno ōuchiyamano ikanaran kagirimoshirazu tsumoruyukikana
How must it be now within the ninefold walls, on the hill of the great enclosure? The snow piles up without any limit.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Kokonoeno uchinonoyukini atotsukete harukanichiyono michiomirukana
Setting my footprints on the snow of the Uchino field within the ninefold walls, I see far off the road of a thousand ages.
Masukagami - Shosho no Naishi
Tsutaekiku hijirinoyoyono atoomite furukiouutsusu michinarawanan
Look on the traces of those sagely reigns we know only by report, and learn the way that brings what is old into the present.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Shirazarishi mukashiniimaya kaerinan kashikokiyoyono atonarainaba
Might I now return to an age I never knew, if I were to learn the traces of those illustrious reigns?
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Iwashimizu kogakuretarishi inishieo omoiizureba sumukokorokana
Iwashimizu: when I remember the days when I lay hidden in the shade of the trees, my heart runs clear.
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Iromokamo kasanetenioe umenohana kokonoeninaru yadonoshirushini
Bloom richer still in colour and in scent, plum blossoms, as a sign that this house has become the ninefold court.
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Iwaioku hajimetokyōo matsugaeno chitosenokageni sumeruikemizu
Counting today as the first of the blessings we lay up, the water of the pond lies clear in the thousand-year shade of the pine bough.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Kageutsusu matsunimochiyono iromiete kyōsumisomuru yadonoikemizu
The pine that casts its reflection shows the colour of a thousand ages, and today the water of this house's pond begins to run clear.
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Irokaenu tokiwanomatsuno kagesoete chiyoniyachiyoni sumeruikemizu
The evergreen pine, whose colour never changes, adds its shadow, and for a thousand and eight thousand ages the pond water lies clear.
Masukagami - Dainagon no Naishi
Kawabuneno sashiteizukuka waganaranu tabitowaiwaji yadotosadamen
Where is the river boat poling to? This place is not foreign to me. I will not call it travel; I shall make it my home.
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Tsunokunino ashinoshitaneno ikanareba naminishiorete midaregaonaru
How is it that the under-roots of the reeds of Tsu droop under the waves and look so tangled?
Masukagami - Ben no Naishi
Tsunokunino ashinoshitaneno midarewabi kokoromonamini ukitefurukana
Tangled and weary as the under-roots of the reeds of Tsu, my heart too floats upon the waves, and so the days pass.
Masukagami - Chunagon no Naishi
Ayamegusa sokoshiranumano nagakineni fukakitoiuya yomogiunotsuyu
The sweet-flag's long root in a marsh no one has sounded: is that what is called deep—this dew on the mugwort?
Masukagami - Ben no Naishi
Ayamegusa sokoshiranumano nagakineo fukakikokoroni ikagakuraben
How could the long root of the sweet-flag, in a marsh no one has sounded, ever be measured against the depth of my heart?
Masukagami - Sanjo Kinchika