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- Senzai Wakashu
Tsurenasa ni ima wa omoi mo taenamashi kono yo hitotsu no chigiri nariseba
Faced with her coldness, I would give up my love by now, if only our bond belonged to this one life alone.
Senzai Wakashu - Kenshō
Utatane no yume ni aimite nochi yori wa hito mo tanomenu kure zo mataruru
Ever since I met her in a dream while dozing, I find myself waiting for the evening, though she has never promised she would come.
Senzai Wakashu - Genkei
Aware tomo makura bakari ya omouramu namida taesenu yowa no keshiki o
Is it only my pillow that feels for me, seeing how I am through the dead of night, my tears never ceasing?
Senzai Wakashu - Chōe
Koromode ni otsuru namida no iro naku wa tsuyu tomo hito ni iwamashi mono o
If only the tears that fall upon my sleeve had no color, I could tell people they were only dew.
Senzai Wakashu - Mikawa
Omou koto shinobu ni itodo sou mono wa kazu naranu mi no nageki narikeri
What weighs on me all the more, as I keep my love hidden, is the grief of knowing that I am of no account at all.
Senzai Wakashu - Inpumon-in no Taifu
Yukikaeru kokoro ni hito no narureba ya aiminu saki ni koishikaruran
Is it because my heart, going to her and back again and again, has grown so used to her, that I long for her like this before we have even met?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kanezane
Au koto o saritomo to nomi omou kana Fushimi no sato no na o tanomitsutsu
I keep thinking only that surely, someday, we shall meet, trusting all the while in the name of Fushimi, the village of lying down together.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Iemichi
Nado ya kaku samo kuregataki ōzora zo waga matsu koto wa ari to shirazu ya
Why is the great sky so slow to darken like this? Does it not know there is someone I am waiting for?
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Nijō
Sode no iro wa hito no tou made nari mo seyo fukaki omoi o kimi shi tanomaba
Let my sleeves be stained so deep that people ask me why, so long as you will put your trust in the depth of my love.
Senzai Wakashu - Princess Shokushi
Aki wa oshi chigiri wa mataru tonikaku ni kokoro ni kakaru kure no sora kana
I grieve to see the autumn go, yet I long for the meeting we have promised; one way or the other, how this evening sky at autumn's close weighs upon my heart.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Koi o nomi shigururu sora no ukigumo wa kumori mo aezu sode nurashikeri
The aching, drifting clouds in the sky that rains down nothing but love have wet my sleeves before they have even finished gathering.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nariie
Isogakure kaki wa yaredomo moshiogusa tachikuru nami ni araware ya sen
Hidden behind the rocks, I gathered the salt-making seaweed, writing and sending my letters in secret; yet will the waves that come rolling in not lay them bare?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Iezane
Kure ni tomo chigirite tare ka kaeruran omoitaetaru akebono no sora
Who could it be, I wonder, going home with a promise to come again at dusk? For me there is only the dawn sky, and a heart that has given up.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Chigirioku sono koto no ha ni mi o kaete nochi no yo ni dani aimiteshikana
I would give my very self in exchange for the words you pledged, if only we might meet at last, even in the world to come.
Senzai Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tare yue ka akugareniken kumoma yori mishi tsukikage wa hitori naraji o
For whose sake did your heart wander away? The moonlight you glimpsed through the gaps in the clouds was surely not just one alone.
Senzai Wakashu - Owari
Koeyarade koiji ni mayou Ōsaka ya yo o idehatenu seki to naruran
Unable to cross it, wandering lost on the road of love, will the Barrier of Ōsaka, the Slope of Meeting, become the very gate that keeps me from leaving this world behind?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Iemoto