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- Senzai Wakashu
Inochi koso onoga mono kara ukarikere areba zo hito o tsurashi to mo miru
It is life itself, though it is my own, that is wretched; it is only because I live that I find him cruel at all.
Senzai Wakashu - Owari of Kōkamon'in
Nani to ka ya shinobu ni wa arade furusato no nokiba ni shigeru kusa no na zo uki
What is it called? Not the fern of fond remembrance, but the plant that grows thick by the eaves of your old home: it is that name, forgetting, that pains me.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadayoshi
Mishi yume no samenu yagate no utsutsu nite kyō to tanomeshi kure o mataba ya
If only the dream I saw would stay unbroken and become waking life, so that I might wait for the dusk you promised me for today.
Senzai Wakashu - Kojiju
Shirurame ya otsuru namida no tsuyu tomo ni wakare no toko ni kiete kou to wa
Can you know that on the bed where we parted, along with the dew of my falling tears, I long for you as though I too would vanish?
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Nijō
Mada shiranu tsuyu oku sode o omoiyare kakoto bakari no toko no namida ni
Think of my sleeves, where dew lies such as I have never known, beside those tears of yours upon the bed, which are nothing but a pretext.
Senzai Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kaeritsuru nagori no sora o nagamureba nagusamegataki ariake no tsuki
Having come home, when I gaze at the sky still full of our parting, there remains the moon of dawn, and nothing can console me.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kanezane
Wasuru na yo yoyo no chigiri o Sugawara ya Fushimi no sato no ariake no sora
Do not forget our vows through lifetimes, nor the dawn sky over the village of Fushimi at Sugawara, which we saw as we lay together.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Ikani shite yoru no kokoro o nagusamemu hiru wa nagame ni sate mo kurashitsu
How am I to comfort my heart through the night? The day I somehow passed, lost in brooding as I gazed out, but the night is another matter.
Senzai Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Kore mo mina sazo na mukashi no chigiri zo to omou mono kara asamashiki kana
All of this too, I tell myself, must surely be the bond of a former life; and yet, even thinking so, how wretched and dismaying it is.
Senzai Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Yoso ni te wa nakanaka sate mo arinishi o utate mono omou kinō kyō kana
While you were far away, I could, strangely enough, go on as I was; yet now, yesterday and today, how the longing torments me all the more.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Kazan
Omoiidete tare o ka hito no tazunemashi uki ni taetaru inochi narazu wa
Remembering, whom would you have come to visit, I wonder, had this life of mine not endured through all the misery you gave me?
Senzai Wakashu - Koshikibu no Naishi
Matsu tote mo kabakari koso wa aramashika omoi mo kakenu aki no yūgure
Even had I been waiting for you, could it have been as moving as this? Your message on an autumn evening, when I never dreamed of it.
Senzai Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Hodo fureba hito wa wasurete yaminuran chigirishi koto o nao tanomu kana
Time has passed, and he has surely forgotten and let it all end; and yet I still go on trusting in the promise that we made.
Senzai Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Take no ha ni tama nuku tsuyu ni aranedomo mada yo o komete okinikeru kana
Though I am not the dew that strings its jewels on the bamboo leaves, while it was still deep night I rose and left you, as the dew settles.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanekata
Ko no ma yori hire furu sode o yoso ni mite ikaga wa subeki Matsura Sayohime
Seeing only from afar, through the trees, the sleeve that waves its scarf, what am I to do, O Sayohime of Matsura?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Mabushi sasu shizuo no mi ni mo taekanete hato fuku aki no koe tatetsu nari
Even the lowly man who sets his hunting blind and waits, unable to bear it, seems to have raised his voice, blowing the dove call in autumn.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nakazane