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- Shui Wakashu
Iro mo naki kokoro o hito ni someshi yori utsurowamu to wa waga omowanaku ni
Ever since I dyed my colorless heart in your hue, I have never once thought it might fade and change.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Kazu naranu mi o Ujikawa no ajirogi ni ōku no hi o mo sugushitsuru kana
Thinking my worthless self so wretched, I have let so many days pass, like the ice fish awaited at the weir posts of the Uji River.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Shitamomiji suru o ba shirade matsu no ki no ue no midori o tanomikeru kana
Not knowing the lower leaves had turned to crimson, I relied upon the green at the top of the pine.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Waga seko o waga koioreba waga yado no kusa sae omoi uragarenikeri
As I long for my husband, even the grass of my garden has brooded and withered at its tips.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Shimo no ue ni furu hatsuyuki no asagōri tokezu mo mono o omou koro kana
Like the first snow falling on the frost and the morning ice that will not melt, these days I brood with a heart that will not open.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Miyoshino no yuki ni komoreru yamabito mo furumichi tomete ne o ya nakuran
Even the mountain folk shut in by the snows of Yoshino, seeking out the old paths where the snow falls, do they too cry aloud, I wonder?
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Kageakira
Tanometsutsu konu yo amata ni narinureba mataji to omou zo matsu ni masareru
Since the nights you raised my hopes and did not come have grown so many, deciding to wait no more has become harder to bear than the waiting itself.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Asanegami ware wa kezuraji utsukushiki hito no tamakura furete shi mono o
I will not comb my hair, still tangled from the night, for it has touched the arm of the one I love, laid beneath my head as a pillow.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Toki no ma mo kokoro wa sora ni naru mono o ikade sugushishi mukashi naruramu
Even a moment apart sends my heart drifting into the sky; how, then, did I ever get through those days long ago, before we met?
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanekata
Shiranami no uchishikiritsutsu koyoi sae ikade ka hitori nuru to ka ya kimi
Like white waves breaking again and again, the nights go on, and even tonight—how can you tell me I must sleep alone, my love?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ika ni shite kyō o kurasamu Koyurugi no isogi idete mo kai nakarikeri
How am I to get through this day? I hurried out, as quick as the waves on Koyurugi's shore, and it was all for nothing.
Shui Wakashu - Shōni no Myōbu
Minatoiri no ashiwake obune sawari ōmi waga omou hito ni awanu koro kana
Like a small boat struggling through the reeds at the harbor mouth, there are so many things in my way that I cannot meet the one I love these days.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Iwashiro no nonaka ni tateru musubimatsu kokoro mo tokezu mukashi omoeba
Like the tied pine standing in the fields of Iwashiro, my heart stays knotted and will not come loose when I think of times long past.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Waga yado wa Harimagata ni mo aranaku ni akashi mo hatete hito no yukuran
My house is no shore of Harima, so why does he go off as though passing Akashi, leaving before he has stayed the night through to dawn?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Namima yori miyuru kobune no hamahisagi hisashiku narinu kimi ni awazute
Like the catalpa on the shore beyond the small boat seen between the waves, so long a time has passed now without my meeting you.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Masukagami te ni torimochite asana asana miredomo kimi ni aku toki zo naki
Like a clear mirror I take up in my hands morning after morning, I look at you always, and yet there is never a moment when I tire of you.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro