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- Senzai Wakashu
Ika bakari omou to shirite tsurakaran aware namida no iro o misebaya
Could she be so cold if she knew how deeply I love her? Ah, if only I could show her the color of my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yorizane
Koishinan inochi o tare ni yuzuriokite tsurenaki hito no hate o misemashi
This life of mine that will die of love, to whom should I leave it, so that someone may see what becomes, in the end, of the one so cold to me?
Senzai Wakashu - Shun'e
Sekikanuru namida no kawa no hayaki se wa au yori hoka no shigarami zo naki
For the swift rapids of this river of tears that I cannot hold back, there is no weir that could stop them but meeting her.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Yorimasa
Waga koi wa toshi furu kai mo nakarikeri urayamashiki wa Uji no hashimori
My love has gained nothing from all the years it has endured. How I envy the old warden of the bridge at Uji, cherished for his years.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akikata
Narete nochi shinan wakare no kanashiki ni inochi ni kaenu au koto mogana
Since it would be so sad to part in death once we had grown close, I wish there could be a meeting that need not be bought with my life.
Senzai Wakashu - Dōin
Nishikigi no chizuka ni kagiri nakariseba nao korizuma ni tatemashi mono o
If the bundles of courting wood were not limited to a thousand, I would go on, undaunted, setting them up at her gate.
Senzai Wakashu - Kamo no Shigeyasu
Ika bakari koiji wa tōki mono nareba toshi wa yukedomo au yo nakaran
How far must the road of love stretch, that though the years go by along it, there is never a night when we may meet?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Norinaga
Narete nochi tsurakaramashi ni kurabureba naki na wa koto no kazu naranu kana
Compared with how painful it would be if you turned cold after we had grown close, a groundless rumor counts for nothing at all.
Senzai Wakashu - Echigo
Aimimu to omoi na yori so shiranami no tachiken na dani oshiki migiwa o
Do not draw near thinking we might meet. Even the rumor that has already risen like the white waves is more than I can bear, here at the water's edge.
Senzai Wakashu - Mikawa
Koishinan mi wa oshikarazu au koto ni kaen hodo made to omou bakari zo
I do not hold dear this life that will end in dying of love; I only hope to keep it until I can trade it for a meeting with her.
Senzai Wakashu - Dōin
Ima wa sa wa aimimu made wa katakutomo inochi to naramu koto no ha mogana
Now, even if it is too hard for us to meet, I would at least have some word from you that could keep me alive.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisuke
Hitokata ni nabiku moshio no keburi kana tsurenaki hito no kakaramashikaba
See how the smoke of the salt fires drifts all to one side! If only the one so cold to me would bend my way like that.
Senzai Wakashu - Taira no Tadamori
Koiwabinu Chinu no masurao naranaku ni Ikuta no kawa ni mi o ya nagemashi
I am worn out with love. Though I am no hero of Chinu from the old tale, should I throw myself into the River Ikuta?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Michitsune
Inochi o ba au ni kaen to omoishi o koishinu to dani shirasete shikana
I had meant to give my life in exchange for meeting her; now I only wish she might at least know that I am dying of my love.
Senzai Wakashu - Jakuchō
Koishi tomo mata tsurashi tomo omoiyaru kokoro izure ka saki ni tatsuran
Longing, or bitterness again, in the heart I send out toward her, which of the two, I wonder, rises first?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Moromitsu
Au naranu koinagusame no araba koso tsurenashi tote mo omoitaename
If there were any comfort for love besides meeting her, then I could give her up, cold as she is; but there is none.
Senzai Wakashu - Dōin