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- Shui Wakashu
Haru no no ni ouru nakina no wabishiki wa mi o tsumite dani hito no shiranu yo
Like greens growing in the spring fields, a groundless rumor springs up; what pains me is that even when I pinch myself, no one knows how it hurts.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Nakina nomi Tatsuta no yama no aotsuzura mata kuru hito mo mienu tokoro ni
Only groundless rumor rises, like Mount Tatsuta, though this is a place where no one is seen coming again, as one draws in the green vines.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Nakina nomi Tatsu no ichi to wa sawagedomo isa mada hito o uru yoshi mo nashi
People clamor that only groundless rumor rises, like the market of Tatsu, yet, well, I still have no means to win her.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Naki koto o Iware no ike no ukinunawa kurushiki mono wa yo ni koso arikere
To be spoken of for things that never happened is like reeling in the water shield floating on Iware Pond; truly, it is in this world that such pain is found.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Take no ha ni okiiru koto no marobiaite nuru to wa nashi ni tatsu waga na kana
Like the things resting on bamboo leaves that roll together and touch, though we have never lain together, how my name rises in rumor!
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Ajiki na ya waga na wa tachite karakoromo mi ni mo narasade yaminu beki kana
How hopeless it is! My name rises in rumor, like a Chinese robe that is cut but never worn close, and it seems our love must end without our ever growing intimate.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Karakoromo ware wa katana no furenaku ni mazu tatsu mono wa nakina narikeri
Though no blade has touched the Chinese robe, it is cut; though I have not touched her, what rises first is only a groundless name.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Somekawa ni yado karu nami no hayakereba nakina tatsu tomo ima wa uramiji
Since the waves that lodge in the Somekawa, the Dyeing River, run so swift, even if a groundless rumor rises, I will no longer resent it.
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Shigeyuki
Kohatagawa ko wa ta ga iishi koto no ha zo nakina susugamu takitsuse mo nashi
Like the Kohata River, whose words, I wonder, were these? There are no rapids to rinse away this groundless name.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kimi ga na no tatsu ni toga naki mi nariseba ōyoso hito ni nashite mimashi ya
If I were one who bore no blame for the rumors about you, could I look on you as just anyone at all?
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadanobu
Yume ka to mo omou bekeredo ne ya wa seshi nani zo kokoro ni wasuregataki wa
I might well think it was a dream, but did I sleep? No. Then what is it that my heart cannot forget?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yume yo yume koishiki hito ni aimisu na samete no nochi ni wabishikarikeri
O dream, dream, do not let me meet the one I love, for after waking it was all the more forlorn.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Aimite no nochi no kokoro ni kurabureba mukashi wa mono mo omowazarikeri
Compared with the heart I have had since we met and became lovers, in the days before I knew nothing of what it is to long.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Atsutada
Aimite wa nagusamu ya to zo omoishi o nagori shi mo koso koishikarikere
I thought that once we met my heart would be consoled, but it is the lingering afterglow that I long for all the more.
Shui Wakashu - Sakanoue no Koreyuki
Aimite mo arinishi mono o itsu no ma ni naraite hito no koishikaruran
Even after we met I got along well enough; when, I wonder, did I grow so used to her that now I long for her this way?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Waga koi wa nao aimite mo nagusamazu iyamasari naru kokochi nomi shite
My love, even after we have met, is still not consoled; I only feel it swelling greater and greater.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet