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- Sankashu
Toe kashi na wakare no sode ni tsuyu shigeki yomogi ga moto no kokorobososa o
Come and call on me, I beg you, and see the loneliness of one who lives beneath the mugwort, with sleeves heavy with the dew of parting.
Sankashu - Jakuzen
Machiwabinu okure sakidatsu aware o mo kimi narade sawa tare ka tou beki
I have grown weary of waiting; the sorrow of one left behind when another goes first, who but you would come to console?
Sankashu - Jakuzen
Wakarenishi hito o futatabi ato o miba urami ya semashi towanu kokoro o
If my brother who has left us could look again on what he left behind, would he not resent the heart that has not come to call?
Sankashu - Jakuzen
Ikaga sen ato no aware wa towazu tomo wakareshi hito no yukue tazuneyo
What can be done? Even if you do not come to console the grief of those left behind, at least seek out where the departed has gone.
Sankashu - Jakuzen
Nakanaka ni towanu wa fukaki kata mo aran kokoro asaku mo uramitsuru kana
Perhaps, on the contrary, not coming to call holds some deeper meaning; how shallow of me to have resented it.
Sankashu - Jakuzen
Wakeirite yomogi ga tsuyu o kobosaji to omou mo hito o tou ni arazu ya
To hold back from pushing my way in, so as not to spill the dew upon the mugwort, is that not also a way of calling on you?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yoso ni omou wakare naraneba tare o ka wa mi yori hoka ni wa tou bekarikeru
Since this is no parting I can think of as someone else's, whom should I console but myself?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hedate naki nori no kotoba ni tayori ete hachisu no tsuyu ni aware kakuran
Finding refuge in the words of the Law that know no barriers, the departed must now be turning his heart toward the dew upon the lotus.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Naki hito o shinobu omoi no nagusamaba ato o mo chitabi toi koso wa seme
If grieving for the departed could be eased that way, I would call on what he left behind a thousand times.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Minori oba kotoba nakeredo toku to kikeba fukaki aware wa towade koso omoe
I have heard that the Law can be preached even without words, and so my deep sympathy I hold in my heart, without coming to call.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuyu fukaki nobe ni nariyuku furusato wa omoiyaru ni mo sode shiorekeri
The old home, turning now into a field heavy with dew, I have only to think of it and my sleeves droop with tears.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Izuku ni ka nemuri nemurite taore fusan to omou kanashiki michishiba no tsuyu
Somewhere, I suppose, I will drowse and drowse and fall down dead by the road; how sad to think it, I who am like the dew on the wayside grass.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Odorokan to omou kokoro no araba ya wa nagaki nemuri no yume mo samu beki
Is merely having a heart that wishes to wake enough for one to rouse from the dream of the long sleep? It is not.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kaze araki iso ni kakareru amabito wa tsunaganu fune no kokochi koso sure
The fisherfolk who cling to their living on the wind-lashed shore must feel like boats left untied.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ōnami ni hikare idetaru kokochi shite tasukebune naki oki ni yuraruru
I feel as though a great wave has pulled me out to sea, and I am tossed upon the open water where no rescue boat will come.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Naki ato o tare to shiranedo Toribeyama onoono sugoki tsuka no yūgure
Though I know not whose remains they are, at Toribeyama every mound looks desolate in the dusk.
Sankashu - Saigyō