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- Kokin Wakashu
Konu hito o matsu yūgure no akikaze wa ika ni fukeba ka wabishikaruramu
The autumn wind at dusk, as I wait for someone who does not come: how does it blow, that it makes me feel so desolate?
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hisashiku mo narinikeru kana suminoe no matsu wa kurushiki mono ni zo arikeru
How long it has been! Waiting, like the pines of Suminoe whose name it shares, has turned out to be a painful thing.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Suminoe no matsu hodo hisa ni narinureba ashitazu no ne ni nakanu hi wa nashi
My waiting has grown as long as the age of the pines of Suminoe, and there is not a day I do not cry aloud like the cranes among the reeds.
Kokin Wakashu - Kanramu Ou
Miwa no yama ika ni machimimu toshi fu tomo tazunuru hito mo araji to omoeba
How am I to wait at Mount Miwa, when I am sure that no one will come looking for me, however many years may pass?
Kokin Wakashu - Ise
Fukimayou nokaze o samumi akihagi no utsuri mo yuku ka hito no kokoro no
Because the wandering wind across the fields is cold, the autumn bush clover fades and changes, and so too, it seems, does the heart of the one I love.
Kokin Wakashu - Prince Tsuneyasu
Ima wa tote waga mi shigure ni furinureba kotonoha sae ni utsuroinikeri
Thinking it is over now: as I have aged like leaves drenched in the autumn showers, even your words have faded and changed their color, like the leaves of the trees.
Kokin Wakashu - Ono no Komachi
Hito o omou kokoro no konoha ni araba koso kaze no manimani chiri midareme
If my heart that loves you were a leaf on a tree, it might scatter and whirl wherever the wind blew. But it is not, and it will not change.
Kokin Wakashu - Ono no Sadaki
Amagumo no yoso ni mo hito no nariyuku ka sasuga ni me ni wa miyuru mono kara
Are you becoming distant from me, like the clouds in the sky? And yet I can still see you with my own eyes.
Kokin Wakashu - Daughter of Ki no Aritsune
Yukikaeri sora ni nomi shite furu koto wa waga iru yama no kaze hayami nari
If I spend my days drifting back and forth across the sky like a cloud, it is because the wind blows so fiercely on the mountain where I would stay. It is your harshness that will not let me remain.
Kokin Wakashu - Ariwara no Narihira
Karakoromo nareba mi ni koso matsuware me kakete nomi ya wa koimu to omoishi
A fine robe, once worn soft, clings close to the body, and so I thought that growing close would bring us together. I never imagined I would only love you from afar, like a robe left hanging on its rack.
Kokin Wakashu - Prince Kagenori
Akikaze wa mi o wakete shimo fukanaku ni hito no kokoro no sora ni naruramu
The autumn wind does not split a body open and blow inside it, so why has the heart of the one I love become as empty and distracted as the sky?
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tomonori
Tsure mo naku nariyuku hito no kotonoha zo aki yori saki no momiji narikeru
The words of someone who grows ever colder toward me are autumn leaves that change color even before autumn has come.
Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Muneyuki
Shide no yama fumoto o mite zo kaerinishi tsuraki hito yori mazu koeji tote
I only looked at the foot of the Mountain of Death and came back again, for I was not going to cross it before a heartless person like you.
Kokin Wakashu - Hyōe
Toki sugite kareyuku ono no asaji ni wa ima wa omoi zo taezu moekeru
Now that its season has passed and the reeds of the field of Ono are withering, a fire burns there without ceasing. So too, now that you are drifting away, the fire of my longing burns on and on.
Kokin Wakashu - Elder Sister of Ono no Komachi
Fuyugare no nobe to waga mi o omoiseba moete mo haru o matamashi mono o
If I could think of myself as a field withered by winter, then even though I burned, I could wait for the spring when green shoots rise again.
Kokin Wakashu - Ise
Mizu no awa no kiete uki mi to iinagara nagarete nao mo tanomaruru kana
I say I am a wretched body that will vanish like foam on the water, and yet, as time flows on like that foam, I still find myself relying on you.
Kokin Wakashu - Ki no Tomonori