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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Nurete hosu tamagushi no ha no tsuyushimo ni amateru hikari ikuyo henuran
On the leaves of the sacred sprigs, wet and dried again by dew and frost, how many ages has the light shining in heaven passed?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Kimi ga yo wa chiyo to mo sasaji ama no to ya izuru tsukihi no kagiri nakereba
I will not bound my lord's reign at a thousand ages, for the moon and sun that come forth from the gate of heaven know no end.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Waga michi o mamoraba kimi o mamoruran yowai wa yuzure Sumiyoshi no matsu
If the god of Sumiyoshi guards the Way of poetry I follow, surely he will guard my lord as well—O pine of Sumiyoshi, yield your years to him.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Takasago no matsu mo mukashi ni narinu beshi nao yukusue wa aki no yo no tsuki
Even the pine of Takasago will someday become a thing of the past; yet the companion that remains for all the years to come is the moon of the autumn night.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Moshiogusa kaku tomo tsukiji kimi ga yo no kazu ni yomioku Waka no uranami
Like seaweed raked for salt, however much I gather and write them, they will never run out—the poems I compose and set down as the count of my lord's reign, endless as the waves on Waka Bay.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Ienaga
Ureshisa ya katashiku sode ni tsutsumuran kyō machietaru Uji no hashihime
Is she wrapping her gladness in the single sleeve she spreads to sleep alone—the Maiden of Uji Bridge, who today at last greets the one she waited for?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Takafusa
Toshi hetaru Uji no hashimori koto towan ikuyo ni narinu mizu no minakami
Let me ask the aged Guardian of Uji Bridge: how many ages has it been since the source of these waters began?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Nanasoji ni Mitsu no hamamatsu oinuredo chiyo no nokori wa nao zo harukeki
Full seventy years, you have grown old like the beach pine of Mitsu, yet what remains before a thousand years is reached still stretches far ahead.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Yaoka yuku hama no masago o kimi ga yo no kazu ni toranan okitsu shimamori
The fine sand of a beach so long it takes eight hundred days to walk—count it, I pray, as the number of years of my lord's reign, O guardian of the offshore isle.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanesada
Kasugayama miyako no minami shika zo omou kita no fujinami haru ni ae to wa
Mount Kasuga, south of the capital, thinks just so—that the wisteria of the north may meet with spring.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Tokiwa naru Kibi no Nakayama oshinabete chitose o matsu no fukaki iro kana
Evergreen and unchanging, Kibi's Middle Mountain is covered all alike in the deep color of pines that await a thousand years.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Akane sasu Asahi no sato no hikagegusa toyo no akari no kazashi narubeshi
The sun-shade moss that grows in the village of Asahi, where the dawn glows red, will surely adorn the headdresses at the Feast of Abundant Light.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Onakatomi no Sukechika
Suberagi o tokiwa kakiwa ni Moruyama no yamabito narashi yamakazura seri
They must be the mountain folk of Moruyama, who guard our sovereign to remain forever firm as the rock—for they wear garlands of mountain vines.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sukenari
Toya kaeru Taka no Oyama no tamatsubaki shimo oba futomo iro wa kawaraji
The fair camellia on Taka-no-o Mountain, named for the hawk that molts in its mews, will not change its color even though it passes through the frosts.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Oe no Masafusa
Kumori naki Kagami no yama no tsuki o mite akirakeki yo o sora ni shiru kana
Gazing at the cloudless moon over Kagami, the Mirror Mountain, I know from the sky that this is a reign of brightness and clear order.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Naganori
Ōeyama koete Ikuno no sue tōmi michi aru yo ni mo ai ni keru kana
Crossing Mount Ōe, the road to Ikuno stretches far ahead; so too have I come to meet an age in which the right Way prevails.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Norikane