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- Shui Wakashu
Mi o tsumeba tsuyu o aware to omou kana akatsuki goto ni ika de okuran
When I pinch myself and compare, I feel pity for the dew: how can it bear to settle each dawn, just as I must rise each dawn and leave?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ushi to omou mono kara hito no koishiki wa izuko o shinobu kokoro naruran
Though I think you cruel, I still long for you; what part of you, I wonder, is it that my heart so cherishes?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yoso nite mo arinishi mono o hanasusuki honoka ni mite zo hito wa koishiki
From afar I had lived on well enough, yet having glimpsed her faintly, as one glimpses pampas plumes, now I long for her.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yume yori mo hakanaki mono wa kagerou no honoka ni mieshi kage ni zo arikeru
More fleeting even than a dream was your form, glimpsed faintly like shimmering heat haze.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yume no goto nado ka yoru shimo kimi o mimu kururu matsu ma mo sadame naki yo o
Why must I see you only by night, as in a dream, in a world so uncertain that even the time of waiting for dusk is not assured?
Shui Wakashu - Mibu no Tadami
Koishiki o nani ni tsukete ka nagusamemu yume dani miezu nuru yo nakereba
By what means can I console this longing? You do not appear to me even in dreams, for there is no night on which I sleep.
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Shitagō
Akekure no sora ni zo ware wa mayoinuru omou kokoro no yukanu ma ni ma ni
Under a sky that is neither dawn nor dusk, I have lost my way, my heart that loves you unsatisfied, my steps unwilling to go.
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Shitagō
Tamaboko no tōmichi mo koso hito wa yuke nado toki no ma mo mineba koishiki
People will travel even a long road; why, then, do I long for you if I do not see you for just a little while?
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Mi ni koi no amarinishikaba shinoburedo hito no shiruran koto zo wabishiki
Since love has overflowed my heart, however I hide it, it grieves me that others must surely know.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Shinobitsutsu omoeba kurushi Suminoe no matsu no ne nagara arawarenaba ya
To go on loving in secret is painful; like the roots of the pines of Suminoe laid bare by the waves, I wish my love would simply come to light.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Sumiyoshi no matsu naranedomo hisashiku mo kimi to nenu yo no narinikeru kana
Though I am not the pine of Sumiyoshi, how long it has grown, the time of nights I have not slept beside you.
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Kiyokage
Hisashiku mo omōenedomo Sumiyoshi no matsu ya futatabi oikawaruran
It hardly seems long to me; have the pines of Sumiyoshi, then, grown anew a second time?
Shui Wakashu - Daughter of Fujiwara no Tadafusa
Nani semu ni musubisomeken Iwashiro no matsu wa hisashiki mono to shirushiru
Why did you begin by tying this knot, when you know full well that the pine of Iwashiro is a thing of long, long years?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Katagishi no matsu no ukine to shinobishi wa sareba yo tsui ni arawarenikeri
The sorrowful sleep I kept hidden, like the bare roots of a pine on a cliff edge, has at last, just as I feared, come to light.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Aimite wa ikuhisasa ni mo aranedomo toshitsuki no goto omōyuru kana
Since we met, not so very long has passed, yet it seems to me like months and years.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Toshi o hete omoi omoite ainureba tsukihi nomi koso ureshikarikere
Having loved and loved through the passing years, now that we have met at last, the very passing of months and days is a joy.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro