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- Manyoshu
Matsuragawa nanase no yodo wa yodomu tomo ware wa yodomazu kimi o shi matamu
Though the still pools of the Matsura River's many shallows may linger, I will never falter, but wait for you alone.
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito (attributed)
Matsuragawa kawa no se hayami kurenai no mo no suso nurete ayu ka tsururamu
The shallows of the Matsura River run swift; I wonder if the girls are fishing for sweetfish now, the hems of their crimson skirts wet.
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito
Hito mina no miramu matsura no tamashima o mizute ya ware wa koitsutsu oramu
Everyone else must be looking at Tamashima in Matsura; am I to go on longing for it without ever seeing it?
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito
Matsuragawa tamashima no ura ni wakayu tsuru imora o miramu hito no tomoshisa
How I envy those who must be watching the girls fishing for young sweetfish in the bay of Tamashima on the Matsura River!
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito
Okure ite nagakoi sezu wa misonou no ume no hana ni mo naramashi mono o
Rather than stay behind and pine for you so long, I would sooner become a plum blossom in your garden.
Manyoshu - Kichita no Yoroshi
Kimi o matsu matsura no ura no otomera wa tokoyo no kuni no ama otome kamo
Those maidens on the bay of Matsura who wait for you: could they be fisher-girls from the Everlasting Land?
Manyoshu - Kichita no Yoroshi
Harobaro ni omōyuru kamo shirakumo no chie ni hedateru tsukushi no kuni wa
How very far away it seems, the land of Tsukushi, cut off by a thousand layers of white cloud.
Manyoshu - Kichita no Yoroshi
Kimi ga yuki ke nagaku narinu naraji naru shima no kodachi mo kamusabi ni keri
Many days have passed since you went away; even the trees in your garden at Nara have grown aged and hallowed.
Manyoshu - Kichita no Yoroshi
Matsuragata sayohime no ko ga hire furishi yama no na nomi ya kikitsutsu oramu
Am I only ever to hear the name of the mountain in Matsura where Sayohime waved her scarf?
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Tarashihime kami no mikoto no na tsurasu to mitatashi serishi ishi o tare miki
Who has ever seen the rock on which the divine Tarashihime stood when she went to fish?
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Momoka shimo yukanu matsuraji kyō yukite asu wa kinamu o nani ka sayareru
The road to Matsura does not take a hundred days; I could go today and be back tomorrow. What is it that holds me back?
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Tōtsuhito matsura sayohime tsumagoi ni hire furishi yori oeru yama no na
Ever since Matsura Sayohime, longing for her husband far away, waved her scarf here, the mountain has borne its name.
Yama no na to iitsuge to kamo sayohime ga kono yama no e ni hire o furikemu
Was it so that the tale would be handed down as the mountain's name that Sayohime waved her scarf on top of this mountain?
Yorozuyo ni kataritsuge to shi kono take ni hire furikerashi matsura sayohime
It seems that Matsura Sayohime waved her scarf on this peak so that her story would be told for ten thousand ages.
Unahara no oki yuku fune o kaere to ka hire furashikemu matsura sayohime
Did Matsura Sayohime wave her scarf at the ship out on the open sea, begging it to come back?
Yuku fune o furi todomi kane ikabakari koishiku arikemu matsura sayohime
Unable to hold back the departing ship however she waved, how deeply Matsura Sayohime must have longed for him!