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- Senzai Wakashu
Kimi ni nomi shita no omoi wa Kawashima no mizu no kokoro wa asakaranaku ni
To you alone I pass the love hidden deep within me; like the waters of Kawashima, my heart is by no means shallow.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sueyuki
Omoiki ya toshi no tsumoru wa wasurarete koi ni inochi no taen mono to wa
Could I ever have imagined it? That, forgetting the years piled up upon me, my life should be about to end for love.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Go-Shirakawa
Nageki amari uki mi zo ima wa natsukashiki kimi yue mono o omou to omoeba
My grief overflowing, now I find even this wretched self dear to me, when I think that it is for you I suffer so.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Suemichi
Mizukuki wa kore o kagiri to kakitsumete sekiaenu mono wa namida narikeri
With my brush I wrote it all out, as though this were the last; yet what I could not hold back, I find, were my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Yorimasa
Tare mo yomo mada kikisomeji uguisu no kimi ni nomi koso oto shi hajimure
Surely no one yet has begun to hear the warbler's song; to you alone it first lifts its voice.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Nijō
Uguisu wa nabete miyako ni nareniran furusu ni ne o ba ware nomi zo naku
The warblers, I suppose, have all grown used to the capital; it is I alone who cry aloud in the old nest left behind.
Senzai Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Misebaya na tsuyu no yukari no tamakazura kokoro ni kakete shinobu keshiki o
How I wish I could show her, the jeweled vine bound by a dewdrop's tie, how I keep her in my heart and love her in secret.
Senzai Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ausaka no na o wasurenishi naka naredo sekiyararenu wa namida narikeri
Ours is a bond that has long forgotten the name of Ausaka, the Slope of Meeting; yet what not even its barrier can hold back, I find, are my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsuki matsu to hito ni wa iite nagamureba nagusamegataki yūgure no sora
Telling others I am only waiting for the moon, I gaze out lost in thought, and find no comfort in the sky at dusk.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Norikane
Ashi no ya no karisomebushi wa Tsu no kuni no nagarae yukedo wasurezarikeri
That passing night we lay together in the reed-thatched hut—though I live on, long as Nagara in the land of Tsu, I have never forgotten it.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tamezane
Shirazariki kumoi no yoso ni mishi tsuki no kage o tamoto ni yadosu beshi to wa
I never knew that the moon I once saw far off beyond the clouds would come to lodge its light in my tear-soaked sleeve.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigyō
Au to mishi sono yo no yume no samede are na nagaki nemuri wa ukaru bekeredo
Would that the dream of that night, in which I saw us meet, had never ended—though a sleep that lasts forever must surely be a bitter thing.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigyō
Akikaze no uki hito yori mo tsuraki kana koi seyo tote wa fukazarame domo
The autumn wind is crueler even than my cold-hearted love—though surely it does not blow to tell me, "Fall in love."
Senzai Wakashu - Kūnin
Kokoro sae ware ni mo arazu narinikeri koi wa sugata no kawaru nomi ka wa
Even my heart is no longer my own; does love change only how one looks? No, it changes the heart as well.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Nakatsuna
Machikanete sayo mo Fukei no urakaze ni tanomenu nami no oto nomi zo suru
Tired of waiting, the night grows late at Fukei Bay, and on the sea wind comes only the sound of waves that promise nothing.
Senzai Wakashu - Nijōin no Naishi no Mikawa
Hitoyo tote yogareshi toko no samushiro ni yagate mo chiri no tsumorinuru kana
Thinking it only a single night, he stayed away from my bed, and upon its narrow mat the dust has already settled thick.