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- Masukagami
Kyōyamata saranichitoseo chigiran mukashinikaeru sumiyoshinomatsu
Will it today pledge yet another thousand years—this pine of Sumiyoshi, turning back to the days of old?
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Tameshinaki wagamiyoikani toshitakete kakarumiyukini kyōtsukaetsuru
This life of mine, for which there is no precedent: how, having grown so old, do I come to serve at such a progress as this?
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Orikazasu naginohakazeno kashikosani hitorimichiaru ogurumanoato
By the awesome power of the wind in the nagi leaves worn in the hair, one small carriage alone had a way, and here are its tracks.
Masukagami - Ben no Naishi
Kumanogawa segiriniwatasu sugibuneno henaminisodeno nurenikerukana
The cedar boat cuts across the shallows of the Kumano river, and the waves at its prow have wet my sleeves.
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Yūgureni matsuzohisashiki chitosemade kawaranuirono kyōnotameshio
At evening the waiting is long. Let this day become a precedent that keeps its colour unchanged for a thousand years, like the pine.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Fukakusa
Asahikage kyōyorishiruki kumonoueno soranizochiyono iromomiekeru
From today the morning light shines out clearly above the clouds, and in that sky the colour of a thousand ages can be seen.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Fukakusa
Asahikage arawaresomuru kumonoueni yukusuetōki chigiriozoshiru
The morning light begins to show above the clouds, and there I know a bond that reaches far into the future.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Fujinamino kagesashinarabu mikasayama hitonikoetaru kozuetozomiru
The wisteria casts its shadows side by side on Mikasa hill; these, I see, are treetops that rise above all others.
Masukagami - Shimotsuke
Omoiyare mikasanoyamano fujinohana sakinarabetsutsu mitsurukokoroo
Think, if you will, of the heart that has watched the wisteria on Mikasa hill opening side by side, year after year.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Harusamewa yomonokusakio wakanedomo shigekimegumiwa wagaminarikeri
The spring rain makes no distinction among the grasses and trees on every side, and yet the thickest of its blessing has fallen on me.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Iroironi edaotsuranete sakinikeri hanamowagayomo imasakarikamo
In every colour, branch upon branch, they have bloomed. The blossoms and my own reign are alike at their height.
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Iroironi sakaetenioe sakurabana wagakimigimino chiyonokazashini
Flourish and shine in every colour, cherry blossoms, to be worn in the hair of my lords for a thousand ages.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Konoharuzo kokoronoirowa hirakenuru musojiamarino hanawamishikado
This spring above all, the colour of my heart has opened, though I have watched the blossoms for sixty years and more.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Saneuji
Chiyotoieba itsutsukasanete nanasojini amaruhikazuo kamiwawasureji
A thousand ages five times over, and seventy more besides: the god will not forget so great a count of days.
Masukagami - Ben no Naishi
Imawatote oriirukumono shigurureba kokoronouchizo kakikurashikeru
Now it is over; the cloud comes down and turns to cold rain, and within my heart too everything has gone dark.
Masukagami - Ben no Naishi
Tazunekite akanukokoroni makasenaba chitoseyahanano kagenisugosan
If I gave way to the heart that came here seeking and cannot have enough, would I pass a thousand years in the shade of these blossoms?
Masukagami - Emperor Kameyama