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- Senzai Wakashu
Tayori araba ama no tsuribune kototsutemu hito o mirume ni motomewabinuru
If there were some way, I would send a message by a fisherman's boat: that I have searched and searched, as one gathers sea-pine weed, for a chance to see her, and all in vain.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Arihito
Mata mo naku tada hitosuji ni kimi omou koiji ni madou ware ya nani naru
I love you single-mindedly, as I have loved no other, and yet I have lost my way on the road of love. What, then, am I?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Koremichi
Kimi kouru mi wa ōzora ni aranedomo tsukihi o ōku sugushitsuru kana
I who love you am not the wide sky, and yet, like the sky through which the moon and sun go by, I have let so many months and days pass in loving you.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Korefusa
Koto no ne ni kayoisomenuru kokoro kana matsu fuku kaze ni aranu mi naredo
My heart has already begun to find its way to the sound of your koto, though I am not the wind in the pines, which is said to blend with the koto's music.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Nijō
Hakanashi ya makura sadamenu utatane ni honoka ni mayou yume no kayoiji
How fleeting it is: dozing without even setting my pillow right, I find the path of my dreams to him faint and wandering, leading nowhere.
Senzai Wakashu - Princess Shokushi
Saki ni tatsu namida to naraba hito shirezu koiji ni madou michishirube seyo
Tears, if you are the ones that always go out ahead of me, then be my guide, for I am lost, unknown to anyone, upon the road of love.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanesada
Nagaraeba tsuraki kokoro mo kawaru ya to sadame naki yo o tanomu bakari zo
If I live long enough, perhaps even her cruel heart will change, and so all I can rely on is the very fickleness of this uncertain world.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yorisuke
Morasabaya shinobihatsu beki namida ka wa sode no shigarami kaku to bakari mo
How I long to let it out. Are these tears I could hide to the very end? Never. If only I could tell her this much: that my sleeves, like a weir, can no longer hold them back.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Arifusa
Koishisa o ukimi nari tote tsutsumishi wa itsu made arishi kokoro naruran
There was a time when I kept my longing hidden, thinking myself too wretched to love. How long ago did that heart of mine last? Now I can hide nothing.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Moromitsu
Tanome to ya ina to ya ika ni inafune no shibashi to machishi hodo mo henikeri
Is it "trust me," or is it "no"? Which do you mean? Like the rice boat of the old song that says "not no," you told me to wait a little while, and now even that while has passed.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nobunori
Kaku bakari iro ni ideji to shinobedomo miyuramu mono o taenu keshiki wa
However hard I try to endure in secret, never letting my love show its color, surely they can see it anyway: this look of one who can no longer bear it.
Senzai Wakashu - Kenchi
Hito shirezu omou kokoro wa fukamigusa hana sakite koso iro ni idekere
My love, which no one knows, runs as deep as the peony called the flower of depths, and only now that its blossoms have opened has its color finally shown.
Senzai Wakashu - Kamo no Shigeyasu
Hi o hetsutsu shigesa wa masaru omoigusa au koto no ha no nado nakaruran
Day after day my longing grows thicker, like the longing-grass, and yet why is there not a single leaf of words from her saying that we might meet?
Senzai Wakashu - Tsumori no Kunimitsu
Otsuredomo noki ni shirarenu tamamizu wa koi no nagame no shizuku narikeri
These jewel-like drops that fall and yet come from no eaves are, I find, the drops of my love's long rain, the tears I shed as I gaze and brood.
Senzai Wakashu - Ōnakatomi no Kiyofumi
Hito shirezu omoisometeshi kokoro koso ima wa namida no iro to narikere
The heart that first began to love in secret, steeping itself in longing, has now, I find, turned into the very color of my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Suesada
Iro mienu kokoro no hodo o shirasuru wa tamoto o somuru namida narikeri
What reveals the depth of a heart whose color cannot be seen is, I realize, the tears that dye my sleeves crimson.
Senzai Wakashu - Yūsei