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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Omoiizuru ori taku shiba no yūkeburi musebu mo ureshi wasuregatami ni
At the moment I recall the one who is gone, brushwood is broken and burned, and its evening smoke rises; even choking on it is a gladness, for it is a keepsake that will not let me forget.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Go-Toba In
Omoiizuru ori taku shiba to kiku kara ni tagui shirarenu yūkeburi kana
No sooner have I heard of brushwood broken and burned at the moment of recalling the one who is gone than that evening smoke seems beyond all compare.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Naki hito no katami no kumo ya shigururan yūbe no ame ni iro wa miene do
Is the cloud that is the keepsake of the dead sending down these showers? In the evening rain, its color cannot be seen.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Go-Toba In
Kaminazuki shigururu koro mo ika nare ya sora ni suginishi aki no miyabito
In the Godless Month, the season of winter showers, how are you and your robes, I wonder—you who served the Autumn Palace, now that autumn has passed away into the empty sky?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sagami
Tesusabi no hakanaki ato to mishikadomo nagaki katami ni narinikeru kana
I looked on it as idle scribbling, a trace of no account—yet it has become a keepsake that will remain for a long time.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Daughter of Minamoto no Morofusa
Tazunete mo ato wa kakute mo mizuguki no yukue mo shiranu mukashi narikeri
Though I seek it out, and though the brush traces remain written here like this, the past, like water flowing from the brush, has gone where no one knows.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Uma no Naishi
Inishie no naki ni nagaruru mizuguki no ato koso sode no ura ni yorikere
The brush traces of days long gone, flowing on the tears I weep for one who is no more, have come to rest, like waves upon a shore, on the lining of my sleeves.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Kishi
Hoshi mo aenu koromo no yami ni kurasarete tsuki to mo iwazu madoinuru kana
Blinded by the darkness of mourning robes I have no time to dry, I have lost my way, heedless though the moon is bright.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Michinobu
Minasoko ni chichi no hikari wa utsuredomo mukashi no kage wa miezu zo arikeru
Deep in the water the thousand lights are mirrored, yet the form of my father from days gone by is nowhere to be seen.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Senshi
Mono o nomi omoinezame no makura ni wa namida kakaranu akatsuki zo naki
On the pillow where I lie down and wake again lost only in grief, there is no dawn on which tears do not fall.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Saneakira
Au koto mo ima wa nakine no yume narade itsu ka wa kimi o mata wa mirubeki
There is no longer any meeting you; if not in the dream that comes as I weep myself to sleep, when could I ever see you again?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shōshi
Ushi tote wa idenishi ie o idenu nari nado furusato ni waga kaeriken
She who, finding the world sorrowful, had already left home for the religious life has now, I hear, left her home as well—why, then, have I gone back to my old home?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Seishi
Hakanashi to iu ni mo itodo namida nomi kakaru kono yo o tanomikeru kana
Even as I say "how fleeting," only tears fall all the more—and it was in such a world, wet with tears, that I had placed my trust.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michinari
Furusato ni yuku hito mo gana tsugeyaran shiranu yamaji ni hitori madou to
If only there were someone going to my old home! I would send word by them: that on a mountain path I do not know, I wander all alone.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michinari
Tama no o no nagaki tameshi ni hiku hito mo kiyureba tsuyu ni kotonaranu kana
Even one who is cited as the very model of a long life, once he vanishes, is no different from the dew.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagaie
Koiwabu to kiki ni dani kike kane no oto ni uchiwasuraruru toki no ma zo naki
That I pine for you in sorrow—this at least, listen and hear it; in the sound of this bell I tell you there is not even a moment in which I can forget you.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu