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- Senzai Wakashu
Obotsukana Uruma no shima no hito nare ya waga kotonoha o shiranu kao naru
How uneasy you make me. Are you someone from the Isle of Uruma? You look at my words as though you could not understand a single one.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintō
Hito shirezu mono omou koro no sode mireba ame mo namida mo wakarezarikeri
When I look at my sleeves in these days of secret longing that no one knows of, I can no longer tell the rain from my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yorimune
Tachishi yori harezu mo mono o omou kana nakina ya nobe no kasumi naruran
Ever since the rumor rose, my heart has never cleared, and I brood on and on. Is this groundless rumor the haze that hangs over the fields and will not lift?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Nageki amari shirasesometsuru kotonoha mo omou bakari wa iwarezarikeri
Even the words I finally sent, overwhelmed by grief, to let her know of my love could not express how much I really feel.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Akikata
Hito shirenu ko no ha no shita no umoremizu omou kokoro o kakinagasabaya
Like the buried stream that runs unseen beneath the fallen leaves, I long to set flowing the love hidden in my heart, writing it out in a letter to her.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanesada
Koishi to mo iwanu ni nururu tamoto kana kokoro o shiru wa namida narikeri
I never say that I am in love, and yet my sleeves grow wet. It is my tears, I realize, that know my heart.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masamichi
Omoedomo iwade Shinobu no surigoromo kokoro no uchi ni midarenuru kana
Though I love, I keep it to myself in silence, and so, like the tangled pattern printed on the cloth of Shinobu, my heart is all in disarray within.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Yorimasa
Michinoku no shinobu mojizuri shinobitsutsu iro ni wa ideji midare mo zo suru
Like the printed cloth of Shinobu in Michinoku, I shall keep enduring in secret and never let my love show its color, for I fear my heart might fall into disarray.
Senzai Wakashu - Jakuzen
Naniwame no sukumo taku hi no shitakogare ue wa tsurenaki waga mi narikeri
Like the fire of dry reeds that the women of Naniwa burn, which smolders underneath without a flame, I burn with love in secret while outwardly I seem quite unmoved.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Koishinaba yo no hakanaki ni iiokite naki ato made mo hito ni shirareji
If I should die of love, I will leave word that it was only the fleetingness of this world that took me, so that even after I am gone no one will know the truth.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yorisuke
Hito shirenu namida no kawa no minakami ya Iwade no yama no tani no shitamizu
The source of this river of tears that no one knows of: might it be the hidden stream in the valley of Mount Iwade, the mountain of silence?
Senzai Wakashu - Kenshō
Ika ni semu Mikakigahara ni tsumu seri no ne ni nomi nakedo shiru hito no naki
What am I to do? Like the roots of the parsley I pick on Mikaki Moor, I can do nothing but cry aloud, and yet there is no one who knows my love.
Senzai Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsure mo naki hito no kokoro ya Ausaka no sekiji hedatsuru kasumi naruran
Is her cold, unfeeling heart the very haze that hangs over the road to the Ōsaka Barrier, the Barrier of Meeting, and keeps us apart?
Senzai Wakashu - Kamo no Shigeyasu
Namidagawa ukine no tori to narinuredo hito ni wa e koso minarezarikere
I have become a waterbird that sleeps afloat on a river of my own tears, sleeping alone in sorrow, and yet, unlike the bird at home on the water, I can never grow familiar with her.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Waga koi wa obana fukikosu akikaze no oto ni wa tateji mi ni wa shimu tomo
My love is like the autumn wind that sweeps over the plumed grasses. Even if it pierces me to the bone, I will not let it make a sound for others to hear.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Michiyoshi
Yo o itou hashi to omoishi kayoiji ni ayanaku hito o koiwataru kana
On the very road I took thinking it would be my bridge out of this world, I find myself, for no good reason, going on and on in love.
Senzai Wakashu - Nisshō