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- Sankashu
Aware tote tou hito no nado nakaruran mono omou yado no ogi no uwakaze
Why is there no one who comes to visit out of pity? To this house where I brood, only the wind over the reeds comes calling.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Warinashi ya sa koso mono omou sode narame aki ni aite mo okeru tsuyu kana
How hopeless it is! These may well be the sleeves of one who broods over love, yet even now that autumn, your weariness, has come, the dew still settles on them.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Aki fukaki nobe no kusaba ni kurabebaya mono omou koro no sode no shiratsuyu
I would like to compare the dew on the grasses of the fields in deep autumn with the white dew on my sleeves in these days of brooding over love.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ika ni sen komu yo no ama to naru hodo mo mirume katakute suguru urami o
What am I to do with this resentment, passing my days with no chance to see you, like a fisherman who finds no seaweed, even until I am reborn as one in the life to come?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Mono omou to namida ya yagate Mitsusegawa hito o shizumuru fuchi to naruran
Will the tears I shed in brooding over love one day become the River of Three Crossings, a deep pool where people sink and drown?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Aware aware kono yo wa yoshi ya sa mo araba are komu yo mo kaku ya kurushikaru beki
Ah, alas, let this world go its way, let it be what it will; but will the life to come be just as painful as this?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tanomoshi na yoi akatsuki no kane no oto mono omou tsumi mo tsukizarame ya wa
How reassuring is the sound of the temple bell at dusk and at dawn! How could even the sin of brooding over love not be struck away and come to an end?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsukuzuku to mono o omou ni uchisoete ori aware naru kane no oto kana
As I sit lost in deep and lonely thought, there comes, adding to it at just such a moment, the moving sound of the temple bell.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nasake arishi mukashi nomi nao shinobarete nagaraemauki yo ni mo aru kana
I find myself longing all the more for the past, when people still had feeling, and yet here I am, living on in a world where I have no wish to linger.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Noki chikaki hanatachibana ni sode shimete mukashi o shinobu namida tsutsuman
I will steep my sleeves in the scent of the orange blossoms near the eaves, and wrap in them the tears I shed in longing for the past.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nanigoto mo mukashi o kiku wa nasake arite yue aru sama ni shinobaruru kana
Whatever it may be, when I hear of the old days it is full of feeling, and I find myself longing for it as something of grace and dignity.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Waga yado wa yama no anata ni aru mono o nani ni ukiyo o shiranu kokoro zo
My true dwelling lies beyond the mountains, and yet why is this heart of mine still blind to the sorrows of this weary world?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kumori nō kagami no ue ni iru chiri o me ni tatete miru yo to omowaba ya
Just as one notices a speck of dust resting on a mirror without a cloud, so I would like to see this world as something held up before a clear mind.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nagaraen to omou kokoro zo tsuyu mo naki itou ni dani mo taenu ukimi wa
I have not the slightest wish to live on, I whose wretched self cannot even bear to go on loathing this world.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Omoiizuru suginishi kata o hazukashimi aru ni monouki kono yo narikeri
The past that comes back to me fills me with shame, and so this world is one in which even being alive weighs heavy on the heart.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yo no naka ni sumanu mo yoshi ya aki no tsuki nigoreru mizu no tatau sakari ni
It is well enough not to live in the world, for even the autumn moon cannot shine clear in water while it brims with mud.
Sankashu - Saigyō