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- Sankashu
Kasane kiru fuji no koromo o tayori nite kokoro no iro o someyo to zo omou
Taking as your chance the mourning robes you now wear one upon another, let your heart too be dyed in the color of the Way, so I think.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Fujigoromo kasanuru iro wa fukakeredo asaki kokoro no shimanu hakanasa
The color of the mourning robes I wear one upon another is deep, yet how futile that my shallow heart will not take the dye.
Sankashu - Fujiwara no Kinyoshi
Kimi ga tame aki wa yo ni uki ori nare ya kozo mo kotoshi mo monoomoi nite
Is autumn, for you, the most sorrowful season in all the world? Last year and this year alike, you have been sunk in grief.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hareyaranu kozo no shigure no ue ni mata kakikurasaruru yamameguri kana
On top of last year's showers, which have never cleared, once more the sky is darkened by rain that circles from mountain to mountain.
Omoiizuru nasake o hito no onajiku wa sono ori tou na ureshikaramashi
If you were going to show me such kindness by remembering me, I wish you had come at the time of my grief; how glad I would have been.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kagirinaku kanashikarikeri Toribeyama naki o okurite kaeru kokoro wa
Sad beyond all measure, that is how it was: the heart returning home from Toribeyama, after seeing the dead one off.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kono tabi wa sakizaki miken yume yori mo samezu ya mono wa kanashikaruran
This time, more than the dreams you must have seen before, does it go on without waking, and feel all the sadder for it?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Koyoi kimi shide no yamaji no tsuki o mite kumo no ue o ya omoiizuran
Tonight, my lord, as you gaze upon the moon on the mountain path of death, do you think back on the palace above the clouds?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kakurenishi kimi ga mikage no koishisa ni tsuki ni mukaite ne o ya nakuran
Longing for the lost form of our lord who has passed from sight, do you face the moon and weep aloud?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Waga kimi no hikari kakureshi yūbe yori yami ni zo mayou tsuki wa sumedomo
Since the evening when my lord's light was hidden away, I have wandered lost in darkness, though the moon shines clear.
Sankashu - Mikawa no Naishi
Inishie o kouru namida no iro ni nite tamoto ni chiru wa momiji narikeri
Like the crimson of the tears I shed in longing for the past, what scatters on my sleeves is the red of autumn leaves.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Shigeki no o iku hitomura ni wakenashite sara ni mukashi o shinobikaesan
Let us part this overgrown field into a few separate clumps, and once again call back the memory of how it used to be.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Momiji mite kimi ga tame to ya shigururan mukashi no aki no iro o shitaite
Seeing the autumn leaves, does the cold rain fall for your sake, longing for the colors of autumns long ago?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Iro fukaki kozue o mite mo shiguretsutsu furinishi koto o kakenu hi zo naki
Even seeing the deep-hued treetops, I weep like the passing showers, and there is no day when I do not think of what has long since gone.
Sankashu - Jōsaimon'in no Hyōe
Inishie wa tsuiishi yado mo aru mono o nani o ka kyō no shirushi ni wa sen
In the old days there was the house where she sat and wrote, yet what can we take today as a token of her?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kuchi mo sene sono na bakari o todomeokite kareno no susuki katami ni zo miru
Leaving behind only his name, which will never decay, he is gone, and I look upon the pampas grass in the withered field as a keepsake of him.
Sankashu - Saigyō