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- Kokin Wakashu
Tsurenaki o ima wa koiji to omoedomo kokoro yowaku mo otsuru namida ka
I tell myself I will no longer love someone so cold, and yet how weakly my heart gives way, as the tears come falling down.
Kokin Wakashu - Sugano no Tadaon
Hito shirezu taenamashikaba wabitsutsu mo naki na zo to dani iwamashi mono o
If only our love had ended before anyone knew of it, then, grieving as I was, I could at least have said it was nothing but a groundless rumor.
Kokin Wakashu - Ise
Sore o dani omou koto tote waga yado o miki to na iiso hito no kikaku ni
At least as a sign that you still care for me, do not say you ever came to see my house, for others are listening.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto no mohara taenuru toki ni koso hito no koishiki koto mo shirikere
Only when our meetings had ceased entirely did I come to know how much I longed for you.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Wabihatsuru toki sae mono no kanashiki wa izuko o shinobu namida naruramu
Even now that I have grieved to the end and given up, I still feel sad. What is it in me that still longs, that these tears keep flowing?
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Uramite mo nakite mo iwamu kata zo naki kagami ni miyuru kage narazu shite
Whether I resent or weep, there is no one I can tell it to, except the reflection of myself that I see in the mirror.
Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Okikaze
Yū sareba hito naki toko o uchiharai nagekamu tame to nareru waga mi ka
When evening comes I brush the dust from the empty bed where no one lies. Have I become someone who lives only to grieve?
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Watatsumi no waga mi kosu nami tachikaeri ama no sumu chō uramitsuru kana
Like great waves of the sea that wash over me and return again and again, I have gazed upon the bay where the fishers are said to live, and so, again and again, I have resented you.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Arao da o ara sukikaeshi kaeshite mo hito no kokoro o mite koso yame
As a neglected field is ploughed and turned over and over again, so will I keep trying, and I will not give up until I have seen what is truly in your heart.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ariso umi no hama no masago to tanomeshi wa wasururu koto no kazu ni zo arikeru
When you made me trust that your love was as countless as the sands on the shore of the rough sea, what you were really counting were the times you would forget me.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ashibe yori kumoi o sashite yuku kari no iya tōzakaru waga mi kanashi mo
Like the wild geese that fly from the reedy shore toward the far clouds, I am drawn ever farther from you, and how sad I am.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Shiguretsutsu momizuru yori mo kotonoha no kokoro no aki ni au zo wabishiki
More painful than watching the leaves turn red in the passing autumn showers is meeting the autumn, the weariness toward me, in the heart behind your words.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Akikaze no fuki to fukinuru musashino wa nabete kusaba no iro kawarikeri
On the plain of Musashino, where the autumn wind has blown and blown, the leaves of all the grasses have changed their color. So too, grown weary of me, your heart has changed entirely.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Akikaze ni au tanomi koso kanashikere waga mi munashiku narinu to omoeba
How sad is my trust, like the grain in the fields exposed to the autumn wind of weariness, when I think that I, like the empty ears of rice, have become hollow and vain.
Kokin Wakashu - Ono no Komachi
Akikaze no fukiuragaesu kuzu no ha no uramite mo nao urameshiki kana
As the autumn wind blows the kudzu leaves and turns them over to show their pale undersides, however much I resent you, I resent you still.
Kokin Wakashu - Taira no Sadabumi
Aki to ieba yoso ni zo kikishi adabito no ware o furuseru na ni koso arikere
When people spoke of aki, I thought it was only the season and had nothing to do with me. But it turns out to be the name for how a fickle lover grows weary of me and casts me aside.
Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet