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Chihayaburu Izu no oyama no tamatsubaki yaoyorozuyo mo iro wa kawaraji
The lovely camellias on the sacred mountain of Izu will not change their colour even through eight hundred myriad ages.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Furinikeru ake no tamagaki kamisabite yaretaru misu ni matsukaze zo fuku
The vermilion fence of the shrine has grown old and venerable, and the wind in the pines blows through the tattered blinds.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Isonokami furuki miyako wa kamisabite tataru ni shi are ya hito mo kayowanu
The old capital at Isonokami has grown hallowed with age; might it be under a curse of the gods, that no one comes there any more?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kamitsuke no Seta no Akagi no kamiyashiro Yamato ni ikade ato o tarekemu
O shrine of Akagi at Seta in Kamitsuke, how did your god come to show himself here in the land of Yamato?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Satomiko ga miyutate sasa no soyosoyo ni nabiki okifushi yoshi ya yo no naka
Like the bamboo leaves the village shrine maiden swings in the hot-water rite, soughing as they bend, rise and fall, so let it be with this world of ours.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Mizugaki no hisashiki yo yori yūdasuki kakeshi kokoro wa kami zo shiruramu
From ages as long as the sacred fence has stood, I have hung my heart upon the god as one hangs a sacred sash; surely the god knows it.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Dainichi no shuji yori idete samayagyō samayagyō mata songyō to naru
Dainichi comes forth from his seed syllable into the symbol form, and the symbol form in turn becomes his holy figure.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tō o kumi dō o tsukuru mo hito nageki sange ni masaru kudoku ya wa aru
Raising pagodas and building halls only brings grief to the people; is there any merit greater than repentance?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Honoo nomi kokū ni miteru Abi jigoku yukue mo nashi to iu mo hakanashi
In the Avīci hell, where nothing but flames fill the empty sky, they say there is no way of escape; how futile even to speak of it.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Yo no naka wa kagami ni utsuru kage ni are ya aru ni mo arazu naki ni mo arazu
Is this world like an image reflected in a mirror? It neither truly exists nor does not exist.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kami to ii hotoke to iu mo yo no naka no hito no kokoro no hoka no mono ka wa
Whether we speak of gods or of buddhas, are they anything outside the hearts of the people of this world?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Himeshima no komatsu ga ure ni iru tazu no chitose furedomo toshi oizukeri
The cranes that perch on the tips of the young pines of Himeshima do not grow old, though a thousand years go by.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tazu no iru Nagara no hama no hamakaze ni yorozuyo kakete nami zo yosunaru
On the shore of Nagara, where the cranes dwell, the waves seem to keep rolling in on the sea breeze through ten thousand ages.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tazu no iru Nagara no hama no hamamatsu no matsu to wa nashi ni chiyo o koso fure
The pines on the shore of Nagara, where the cranes dwell, have lived through a thousand ages, though they wait for nothing at all.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kimi ga yo wa nao shimo tsukiji Sumiyoshi no matsu wa momotabi oikawaru tomo
My lord's reign shall never end, even if the pines of Sumiyoshi should die and grow anew a hundred times.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Yukusue mo kagiri wa shirazu Sumiyoshi no matsu ni ikuyo no toshi ka henuramu
Their future has no limit that I know, and how many years, how many ages, must the pines of Sumiyoshi already have passed?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo