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- Senzai Wakashu
Naniwae no mo ni uzumoruru tamagashiwa arawarete dani hito o koibaya
Not like the jewel-oak buried in the seaweed of Naniwa Bay, hidden from every eye, but at least risen to the surface, I wish I could love her openly.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Mada shiranu hito o hajimete kouru kana omou kokoro yo michishirube seyo
For the first time I find myself in love with someone I have never yet met. O heart that loves, be my guide along the road to her.
Senzai Wakashu - Higo
Warinashi ya omou kokoro no iro naraba kore zo sore to mo iwamashi mono o
How hopeless this is. If only the heart that loves had a color, I could point to it and say, "This, this is my love."
Senzai Wakashu - Kawachi
Omou yori itsushika nururu tamoto kana namida zo koi no shirube narikeru
No sooner do I begin to love than my sleeves are already wet. It is tears, I now see, that are the guides of love.
Senzai Wakashu - Chikuzen
Mokuzubi no isoma o wakuru isaribune honoka narishi ni omoisometeki
Like the fishing boat that threads its way among the rocks by the light of burning seaweed, you were only a faint glimpse to me, and yet I have begun to love you.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagato
Ika ni sen omoi o hito ni somenagara iro ni ideji to shinobu kokoro o
What am I to do with this heart, which has dyed her deep with my love and yet endures in secret, determined never to let its color show?
Senzai Wakashu - Prince Sukehito
Hitome mishi hito wa tare to mo shirakumo no uwa no sora naru koi mo suru kana
I glimpsed her only once and do not even know who she is, and so, like the white clouds drifting overhead, I am caught in a love that floats in empty air.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneyoshi
Tsutsumedomo namida ni sode no arawarete koi su to hito ni shirarenuru kana
Though I kept it hidden, my sleeves, wet with tears, have given me away, and now others know that I am in love.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masasada
Tsutsumedomo taenu omoi ni narinureba towazugatari no semahoshiki kana
Though I have kept it hidden, my love has grown past all bearing, and now I long to pour it out, though no one has even asked.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Narimichi
Ōkata no koi suru hito ni kikinarete yo no tsune no to ya kimi omouran
Grown used to hearing the words of all the ordinary people who fall in love, do you, my love, think that mine too is just the usual thing?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinyoshi
Omoedomo Iwade no yama ni toshi o hete kuchi ya hatenan tani no umoregi
Though I love, I never speak, and so the years pass on Mount Iwade, the mountain of silence. Will I at last rot away like a log buried deep in its valley?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisuke
Takasago no onoe no matsu ni fuku kaze no oto ni nomi ya wa kikiwataru beki
Like the wind that sounds through the pines on the peak of Takasago, must I go on knowing you only by rumor, forever hearing and never meeting?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisuke
Araiso no iwa ni kudakuru nami nare ya tsurenaki hito ni kakuru kokoro wa
Is it a wave that shatters on the rocks of a wild shore, this heart of mine that I keep flinging at one who is so cold to me?
Senzai Wakashu - Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Iwama yuku yama no shitamizu sekiwabite morasu kokoro no hodo o shiranan
Like the hidden mountain stream that slips between the rocks and cannot be held back, my heart can no longer contain itself and lets its love leak out. I wish you would understand how deep it runs.
Senzai Wakashu - Jōsaimon'in no Hyōe
Mikomori ni iwade furuya no shinobugusa shinobu to dani mo shirasete shikana
Like the hare's-foot fern growing on the eaves of an old house, where I have passed the years without a word, keeping my love hidden as if beneath the water, I wish I could at least let her know that I am enduring it in secret.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Omou koto iwama ni makishi matsu no tane chiyo to chigiramu ima wa ne saseyo
My love is a pine seed I have sown among the rocks. Let us vow to last a thousand years, and now, at last, let it put down its roots, let me lie with you.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagato