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- Senzai Wakashu
Yoso ni shite modokishi hito ni itsushika to sode no shizuku o towarubeki kana
I once faulted others for weeping, as if it were none of my concern; now, so soon, I shall surely be asked by them about the teardrops on my own sleeves.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisuke
Nagakaramu kokoro mo shirazu kurokami no midarete kesa wa mono o koso omoe
Not knowing whether your heart will last, this morning my thoughts are as tangled as my black hair, lost in longing.
Senzai Wakashu - Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Yoi no ma mo matsu ni kokoro ya nagusamu to ima kon to dani tanomeokanan
So that at least through the evening my heart may be consoled by waiting, leave me those words to trust, if only "I will come soon."
Senzai Wakashu - Jōsaimon'in no Hyōe
Sonareki no sonare sonarete fusu koke no maho narazu tomo aimiteshi kana
Like the moss lying low on a shore-bent tree grown so used to the sea wind, even if it cannot be as it should, how I long to meet with you.
Senzai Wakashu - Taikenmon-in no Aki
Hito wa isa akanu yodoko ni todometsuru waga kokoro koso ware o matsurame
As for her, who can say? But my own heart, which I left behind on that bed I could not bear to leave, surely waits there for me.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Yorimasa
Omoe tada iriyarazarishi ariake no tsuki yori saki ni ideshi kokoro o
Just think of it: the heart that had to leave you even before the moon of dawn, which had not yet set.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Michichika
Naniwae no ashi no karine no hitoyo yue miotsukushite ya koiwatarubeki
For a single night of makeshift sleep, short as a joint of reed root cut on Naniwa Bay, must I spend my whole self in love from now on, like the channel markers there?
Senzai Wakashu - Kōkamon’in no Bettō
Koikoite au ureshisa o tsutsumubeki sode wa namida ni kuchihatenikeri
After longing and longing, I meet you at last, but the sleeves that should wrap up this joy have already rotted away with all my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinhira
Kimi ya sore arishi tsurasa wa tare nareba uramikeru sae ima wa kuyashiki
Are you truly that same one? Then whose was all that coldness before, that even my having resented you now fills me with regret?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Takanobu
Sugata koso nezame no toko ni miezu tomo chigirishi koto no utsutsu nariseba
Even if her form is nowhere to be seen on the bed where I awake, if only the pledge we made in the dream were real.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Toshinori
Azumaya no asagi no hashira ware nagara itsu fushi narete koishikaruran
Like the knots in the rough wooden posts of a cottage, when did I, to my own surprise, grow so used to lying with you that I long for you like this?
Senzai Wakashu - Shin-Hizen
Tsutsumedomo makura wa koi o shirinuran namida kakaranu yo wa shi nakereba
Though I hide it, my pillow must surely know of my love by now, for there is not a single night when my tears do not fall on it.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masamichi
Koi sureba moyuru hotaru mo naku semi mo waga mi no hoka no mono to ya wa miru
Since I am in love, could I ever see the firefly burning with light or the cicada crying aloud as things apart from my own self?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masayori
Hikikakete namida o hito ni tsutsumu ma ni ura ya kuchinan yowa no koromo wa
While I draw it over my head to hide my tears from others, will its lining not rot away, this robe I wear at night?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanesada
Shiotaruru Iseo no ama no sode dani mo hosu naru hima wa ari to koso kike
Even the sleeves of the fishermen of Ise, dripping with brine, have times when they can be dried, so I hear; yet mine, wet with tears, never do.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Chikataka
Shibashi koso nururu tamoto mo shiborishika namida ni ima wa makasete zo miru
For a while, at least, I wrung out my tear-soaked sleeves; but now I leave them to my tears and simply watch them flow.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyosuke