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- Kinkaishu
Toshi fureba oitaorete kuchinubeki mi wa Suminoe no matsu naranaku ni
As the years go by, this body is bound to grow old, fall and rot away, for it is no pine of Suminoe.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Onozukara ware o tazunuru hito mo araba nonaka no matsu yo miki to kataru na
If by chance anyone should come looking for me, pine tree in the moor, do not tell them you saw me pass.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Iso no matsu ikuhisasa ni ka narinuramu itaku kodakaki kaze no oto kana
How long, I wonder, has this pine on the shore stood there? How high up in its branches the wind is sounding.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Azusayumi isobe ni tateru hitotsumatsu ana tsurezurege tomo nashi ni shite
The single pine standing on the rocky shore—ah, how lonely and forlorn it looks, without a friend.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Ōumi no iso mo todoro ni yosuru nami warete kudakete sakete chiru kamo
The waves that surge against the shore of the great sea with a roar break, shatter, split apart and scatter into spray.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Tamakushige Hakone no umi wa kekere are ya futayama ni kakete nani ka tayutau
Does Lake Hakone have a heart? Why else should it waver so, lying between two mountains?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Michinoku ni koko ni ya izuku Shiogama no ura to wa nashi ni keburi tatsu miyu
Is this somewhere in Michinoku? It is not the bay of Shiogama, yet I see smoke rising as if from salt kilns.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Itsumo kaku sabishiki mono ka ashi no ya ni takisusabitaru ama no moshiobi
Is it always so lonely? The salt-weed fire the fisherfolk tend idly in their hut thatched with reeds.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kurenai no chishio no mafuri yama no ha ni hi no iru toki no sora ni zo arikeru
That deep crimson, as if dyed a thousand times over, is the sky at the moment the sun sinks behind the rim of the mountains.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Hamabe naru Mae no kawase o yuku mizu no hayaku mo kyō no kurenikeru kana
Like the water rushing through the shallows of the Mae River by the shore, how swiftly this day has drawn to a close.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Kachibito no watareba yurugu Katsushika no Mama no tsugihashi kuchi ya shinuramu
The patched bridge of Mama in Katsushika trembles when travellers on foot cross over it; has it rotted away by now?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Inishie o shinobu to nashi ni Isonokami furinishi sato ni ware wa kinikeri
Not intending to long for the past, I find I have come to the old village of Isonokami.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Aware nari kumoi no yoso ni yuku kari mo kakaru sugata ni narinu to omoeba
How pitiful it is, when I think that even the wild goose that flew so far beyond the clouds has come to such a state as this.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Nubatama no yami no kuraki ni amagumo no yaekumogakure kari zo nakunaru
In the pitch-dark night, hidden behind the many-layered clouds of heaven, I hear the wild geese crying.
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Sawabe yori kumoi ni kayou ashitazu mo uki koto are ya ne nomi nakuramu
Do the cranes of the reeds, who fly from the marshes up into the clouds, also have their sorrows, that they do nothing but cry?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo
Asaborake ato naki nami ni naku chidori ana kotogotoshi aware itsu made
At daybreak a plover cries over the waves that leave no trace; ah, what a fuss it makes. Alas, for how long can it go on?
Kinkaishu - Minamoto no Sanetomo