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- Manyoshu
Koigusa o chikaraguruma ni nanakuruma tsumite kouraku waga kokoro kara
That I long so much, enough to pile seven carts high with the grasses of love, comes from nothing but my own heart.
Manyoshu - Princess Hirokawa
Koi wa ima wa araji to ware wa omoeru o izuku no koi zo tsukamikakareru
I thought love was over for me now, but from where has this love come to seize hold of me?
Manyoshu - Princess Hirokawa
Iebito ni koi sugime ya mo kawazu naku izumi no sato ni toshi no henureba
Could my longing for those at home ever pass, now that a year has gone by in the village of Izumi where the river frogs sing?
Manyoshu - Ishikawa no Hironari
Waga kiki ni kakete na ii so karikomo no midarete omou kimi ga tadaka zo
Do not speak of her where I can hear; my heart is tangled like cut rushes when I think of her ways.
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Katami
Kasugano ni asa iru kumo no shikushiku ni are wa koimasu tsuki ni hi ni ke ni
Like the morning clouds that lie fold upon fold over Kasuga plain, my love grows ever greater, month by month and day by day.
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Katami
Hitose ni wa chitabi sawarai yuku mizu no nochi ni mo awamu ima ni arazu tomo
Like the stream that is checked a thousand times in a single shoal yet flows on, we shall meet later, even if not now.
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Katami
Kaku shite ya nao ya makaramu chikakaranu michi no aida o nazumi maikite
Must I go back again like this, after toiling all this long way to come to you?
Manyoshu - Otomo no Yakamochi
Hatsuhatsu ni hito o aimite ika ni aramu izure no hi ni ka mata yoso ni mimu
Having met you only fleetingly, what will become of me now? On what day, I wonder, shall I see you again, even from afar?
Manyoshu - Kawachi no Momoe no Otome
Nubatama no sono yo no tsukuyo kyō made ni ware wa wasurezu ma naku shi omoeba
The moonlight of that night I have not forgotten to this very day, for I think of you without pause.
Manyoshu - Kawachi no Momoe no Otome
Waga seko o aimishi sono hi kyō made ni waga koromode wa furu toki mo nashi
From the day I met you until today, my sleeves have never once been dry.
Manyoshu - Kamunagibe no Maso no Otome
Takunawa no nagaki inochi o horishiku wa taezute hito o mimaku hori koso
If I have wished for a life as long as a mulberry-bark rope, it is only so that I might go on seeing you without end.
Manyoshu - Kamunagibe no Maso no Otome
Hanekazura ima suru imo o ime ni mite kokoro no uchi ni koiwataru kamo
I dreamed of you, just now wearing the hanekazura headdress of a grown girl, and in my heart I go on longing for you.
Manyoshu - Otomo no Yakamochi
Hanekazura ima suru imo wa nakarishi o izure no imo zo kokoda koitaru
There was no girl just now wearing the hanekazura; so which girl is it that you are longing for so much?
Omoiyaru sube no shiraneba katamoi no soko ni zo are wa koinarinikeru
Not knowing how to ease my heart, I have sunk to the very bottom of a one-sided love, like the depths of an earthen bowl.
Manyoshu - Awatame no Otome
Mata mo awamu yoshi mo aranu ka shirotae no waga koromode ni iwaitodomemu
Is there no way we might meet again? I will pray and hold you fast within my white sleeves.
Manyoshu - Awatame no Otome
Yūyami wa michi tazutazushi tsuki machite imase waga seko sono ma ni mo mimu
The road is uncertain in the evening dark; wait for the moon to rise before you go, my love, so that I may look at you a while longer.
Manyoshu - Ōyakeme