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- Sankashu
Sumisuteshi sono furusato o aratamete mukashi ni kaeru kokochi mo ya suru
Now that you have returned to live again in the old home you once abandoned, do you feel as though you have gone back to the past?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nabete mina kimi ga nageki o tou kazu ni omoinasarenu koto no ha mogana
If only I had words that you would not count as just one more among all those who come to console you in your grief.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Aware to mo kokoro ni omou hodo bakari iwarenu beku wa toi koso wa seme
If only I could put into words as much as I feel in my heart for you, I would surely come to console you.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Namida o ya shinoban hito wa nagasu beki aware ni miyuru mizuguki no ato
Surely one who remembers him will shed tears, at the sight of these traces of the brush that look so moving.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Midarezu to owari kiku koso ureshikere satemo wakare wa nagusamanedomo
It gladdens me to hear that he met his end with an untroubled mind, though even so the grief of parting is not consoled.
Sankashu - Jakuzen
Kono yo nite mata au majiki kanashisa ni susumeshi hito zo kokoro midareshi
In my sorrow that we would never meet again in this world, it was I, who had urged him on in prayer, whose heart was thrown into turmoil.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Irusa ni wa hirou katami mo nokorikeri kaeru yamaji no tomo wa namida ka
Going into the mountains, you still had the keepsake you had gathered; on the mountain path back, is your only companion your tears?
Sankashu - Jakuzen
Ika ni to mo omoiwakazu zo suginikeru yume ni yamaji o yuku kokochi shite
I passed through it all without knowing what was what, as though I were walking a mountain path in a dream.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yukichiran kyō no wakare o omou ni mo sara ni nageki ya sou kokochi suru
When I think of today's parting, as all go their separate ways, I feel as though grief is heaped upon grief.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Fushishizumu mi ni wa kokoro no araba koso sara ni nageki mo sou kokochi seme
If there were any heart left in me, sunk down in grief as I am, then perhaps I might feel grief heaped upon grief.
Taguinaki mukashi no hito no katami ni wa kimi o nomi koso tanomimashikere
As a keepsake of the one now gone, who had no equal, it is you alone on whom I would wish to rely.
Inishie no katami ni naru to kiku kara ni itodo tsuyukeki sumizome no sode
As soon as I hear that I am to be a keepsake of the departed, my ink-black sleeves grow all the wetter with dew.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Naki ato mo kyō made wa nao nokorikeru o asu ya wakare o soete shinoban
The traces of the departed have lingered until today, but from tomorrow will we remember him with the sorrow of our own partings added on?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Omoe tada kyō no wakare no kanashisa ni sugata o kaete shinobu kokoro o
Only think of it: in my sorrow at today's parting I have changed my form, to remember him with all my heart.
Sankashu - Noritsuna
Ika bakari kimi omowamashi michi ni irade tanomoshikaranu wakare nariseba
How much more you would have grieved, had she not entered the Way, and had this been a parting with no hope beyond it.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tanomoshiki michi ni wa irite yukishikado waga mi o tsumeba ikaga to zo omou
She entered the Way that gives us hope and passed on, yet when I measure it against myself, I cannot help wondering how it truly is.
Sankashu - Jakuzen