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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Kinō mishi hito wa ika ni to odorokedo nao nagaki yo no yume ni zo arikeru
"What has become of the one I saw only yesterday?" I wake with a start—yet still I am within the dream of the long night.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Yomogiu ni itsu ka okubeki tsuyu no mi wa kyō no yūgure asu no akebono
When will this self, fleeting as dew, come to be laid on the weed-grown moor—at dusk this very day, or at tomorrow's dawn?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Ware mo itsu zo aramashikaba to mishi hito o shinobu to sureba itodo soiyuku
And I—when will it be my turn? When I try to remember those I knew, of whom I think "if only they were alive," their number only keeps on growing.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Tazunekite ika ni aware to nagamuran ato naki yama no mine no shirakumo
Having come all that way to seek him, with what sorrow he must be gazing now at the white cloud on the peak of a mountain where no trace of him remains.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Naki ato no omokage o nomi mi ni soete sa koso wa hito no koishikarurame
With only the image of the one who is gone always close beside you, how deeply you must long for that person.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Aware to mo kokoro ni omou hodo bakari iwarenubeku wa toi koso wa seme
If I could have put into words as much of the sorrow as I feel in my heart, surely I would have come to call on you.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Tsukuzuku to omoeba kanashi itsu made ka hito no aware o yoso ni kikubeki
When I think it through deeply, it is sad—for how long can I go on hearing of others' deaths as though they had nothing to do with me?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sanjō Sanefusa
Okureite miru zo kanashiki hakanasa o ukimi no ato to nani tanomiken
Left behind, how sad it is to look upon this grave—why did I trust so fleeting a life to carry on after my own sorrowful self?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michichika
Sokohaka to omoitsuzukete kite mireba kotoshi no kyō mo sode wa nurekeri
Thinking on and on of this and that, I came here and looked—and on this same day this year, too, my sleeves are wet with tears.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Tare mo mina namida no ame ni sekikanenu sora mo ikaga wa tsurenakarubeki
Every one of us is unable to hold back the rain of tears—how, then, could the sky itself remain unmoved?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadatsune
Mishi hito wa yo ni mo nagisa no moshiogusa kakioku tabi ni sode zo shioruru
Those I knew are no longer in this world; like seaweed raked on the shore, each time I write their names down, my sleeves droop, wet with tears.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gyōhen
Arazaran nochi shinobe to ya sode no ka o hanatachibana ni todomeokiken
Was it saying, "remember me when I am gone," that my child left the scent of those sleeves to linger in the orange blossoms?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Hafuribe no Narinaka
Arishi yo ni shibashi mo mide wa nakarishi o aware to bakari iite yaminuru
While you lived, I could not bear to go even a little while without seeing you—yet now all I can do is say "alas," and there it ends.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kanefusa
Toe kashi na katashiku fuji no koromode ni namida no kakaru aki no nezame o
Come, call on me, won't you—waking in the autumn night, with tears falling on the sleeve of my mourning robe, spread beneath me as I sleep alone.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Michitoshi
Kimi nakute yoru kata mo naki aoyagi no itodo ukiyo zo omoimidaruru
With you gone, I have nowhere to lean, like threads of green willow with nothing to twist them; all the more, in this sorrowful world, my thoughts are tangled.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Kunizane
Itsu no ma ni mi o yamagatsu ni nashihatete miyako o tabi to omou naruran
When did it happen that I made myself wholly a mountain dweller, so that now I think of the capital as a place I visit on a journey?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisuke