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- Senzai Wakashu
Hakanaku mo hito ni kokoro o tsukusu kana mi no tame ni koso omoisomeshika
How futile, how I wear my heart out for her! And yet it was for my own sake, surely, that I first began to love.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Arihito
Koisomeshi hito wa kaku koso tsurenakere waga namida shimo iro kawaruran
The one I began to love stays as cold as this, unchanged, so why is it that only my tears change color?
Senzai Wakashu - Daini
Kakarikeru namida to hito mo miru bakari shiboraji sode yo kuchihatene tada
Until she too can see that these were the tears I shed, I will not wring you out, my sleeve. Rot away, then, and be done.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masakane
Ukarikeru hito o Hatsuse no yamaoroshi yo hageshikare to wa inoranu mono o
I prayed at Hatsuse that the one so cruel to me might yield; O mountain gale of Hatsuse, I never prayed that she grow fiercer still, like you.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Ureshiku wa nochi no kokoro o kami mo kike hiku shimenawa no taeji to zo omou
If you grant me the joy of love fulfilled, then hear, O gods, my heart in days to come: like the sacred rope stretched before you, it shall never break.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisue
Musubioku Fushimi no sato no kusamakura tokede yaminuru tabi ni mo aru kana
The grass pillow I tied at Fushimi, the village of lying down, never came loose; it was a journey that ended with nothing ever undone between us.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akinaka
Koi koite kai mo nagisa ni okitsu nami yosete wa yagate tachikaere to ya
I have loved and loved, to no avail; like the waves from the open sea that break upon the shore, am I to come to you only to be sent straight back again?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Toshitada
Ikade ware tsurenaki hito ni mi o kaete koishiki hodo o omoishirasen
If only I could somehow trade places with the one so cold to me, then I would make her feel at last how deeply I long for her.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneyoshi
Tamamo karu Nojima no ura no ama dani mo ito kaku sode wa nururu mono ka wa
Even the fisherfolk who cut the lovely seaweed in the bay of Nojima, do their sleeves ever get as soaked as mine? Surely not.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masamitsu
Au koto o sono toshitsuki to chigiraneba inochi ya koi no kagiri naruran
Since we never promised to meet in any given year or month, will the end of my life be the only end this love can have?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shigemoto
Koiwataru namida no kawa ni mi o nagen kono yo narade mo ause ari ya to
I have loved so long; I will throw myself into this river of my tears, in hope that, if not in this world, there may be a ford in the next where we can meet.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Munekane
Michinoku no Totsuna no hashi ni kuru tsuna no taezu mo hito ni iiwataru kana
Like the ropes that are hauled at the Bridge of Ten Ropes far off in Michinoku, never breaking, I go on and on telling her of my love.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Chikataka
Koiwataru kyō no namida ni kurabureba kinō no sode wa nureshi mono ka wa
Set beside the tears I shed today, still loving on, could my sleeves of yesterday be said to have been wet at all? Surely not.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa
Asa madaki tsuyu o sanagara sasame karu shizu ga sode dani kaku wa nureji o
Even the sleeves of the peasants who cut the sedge in the early morning, dew and all, would surely never get as wet as mine.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanesada
Shiotaruru Ise o no ama ya ware naran saraba mirume o karu yoshi mogana
Am I, then, the fisherman of Ise, dripping with brine? If so, I wish I had some way to gather the seaweed called miru, some chance to see her.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanekuni
Yoshi saraba au to mitsuru ni nagusaman samuru utsutsu mo yume naranu ka wa
Very well, then, I will take comfort in having met her in my dream; for this waking world I wake to, is it not a dream as well?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneie