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- Manyoshu
Ōtomo no mitsu no matsubara kakihakite ware tachimatamu haya kaerimase
I will sweep clean the pine grove at Mitsu in Ōtomo and stand there waiting for you. Come back soon.
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Naniwazu ni mifune hatenu to kikoekoba himo tokisakete tachibashiri semu
When word comes that your ship has docked at Naniwa, I will run out to meet you, my sash still untied.
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Nagusamuru kokoro wa nashi ni kumogakuri nakiyuku tori no ne nomi shi nakayu
With nothing to comfort my heart, like a bird crying as it flies hidden in the clouds, I can only weep aloud.
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Sube mo naku kurushiku areba idehashiri inana to omoedo kora ni sayarinu
I am so helpless and in such pain that I think I will run out and be gone, but my children hold me back.
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Tomihito no ie no kodomo no kiru mi nami kutashi sutsuramu kinuwatara wa mo
Ah, the silks and floss that the children of rich households, having more than they can wear, must leave to rot and throw away!
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Aratae no nunoginu o dani kisekate ni kaku ya nagekamu semu sube o nami
Unable to clothe my children even in a coarse hemp robe, must I go on grieving like this, with nothing I can do?
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Minawa nasu moroki inochi mo takunawa no chihiro ni mo ga to negai kurashitsu
Though my life is as fragile as froth on water, I have spent my days praying it might stretch a thousand fathoms, like a long mulberry rope.
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Shitsutamaki kazu ni mo aranu mi ni wa aredo chitose ni mo ga to omōyuru kamo
Like a plain cloth bracelet, I am a person of no account, yet I find myself wishing to live a thousand years.
Manyoshu - Yamanoue no Okura
Wakakereba michiyuki shiraji mai wa semu shitae no tsukai oite tōrase
He is so young he will not know the way. I will give you gifts: messenger of the underworld, carry him on your back and let him pass.
Manyoshu - Unknown
Fuse okite ware wa koinomu azamukazu tada ni iyukite amaji shirashime
Laying down offerings, I pray: do not lead him astray, but take him straight along and show him the road to heaven.
Manyoshu - Unknown
Toshinoha ni kakumo miteshika miyoshino no kiyoki kōchi no tagitsu shiranami
Every year I long to look upon them just like this: the white waves churning through the clear river bend of fair Yoshino.
Manyoshu - Kasa no Kanamura
Yama takami shirayūbana ni ochitagitsu taki no kōchi wa miredo akanu kamo
Because the mountains are so high, the water tumbles and churns like white flowers of mulberry cloth; this river bend of the rapids I can gaze on forever and never tire of it.
Manyoshu - Kasa no Kanamura
Kamukara ka mi ga hoshikaramu miyoshino no taki no kōchi wa miredo akanu kamo
Is it the nature of its god that makes one long to see it? The river bend of the rapids in fair Yoshino—however long I gaze on it, I never tire.
Manyoshu - Kasa no Kanamura
Miyoshino no akizu no kawa no yorozuyo ni tayuru koto naku mata kaerimimu
Like the river flowing past Akizu in fair Yoshino, never ceasing for ten thousand ages, I will come back again and again to look upon this place.
Manyoshu - Kasa no Kanamura
Hatsuseme no tsukuru yūbana miyoshino no taki no minawa ni sakinikerazu ya
The mulberry-cloth flowers that the women of Hatsuse make—have they not burst into bloom here in the foaming spray of the rapids of fair Yoshino?
Manyoshu - Kasa no Kanamura
Taki no ue no mifune no yama wa kashikokedo omoi wasururu toki mo hi mo nashi
Mount Mifune, towering above the rapids, fills me with awe; and yet there is not an hour, not a day, when I forget my longing.
Manyoshu - Kurumamochi no Chitose