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- Manyoshu
Yukikaeri tsune ni waga mishi kashiigata asu yu nochi ni wa mimu yoshi mo nashi
The flats of Kashii that I have always seen as I came and went—after tomorrow there will be no way for me to see them.
Manyoshu - Uno no Otohito
Hayahito no seto no iwao mo ayu hashiru yoshino no taki ni nao shikazukeri
Even the great crags of the Hayato strait, I find, still fall short of the rapids of Yoshino, where the sweetfish dart.
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito
Yunohara ni naku ashitazu wa aga gotoku imo ni koure ya toki wakazu naku
The cranes among the reeds that cry on the hot-spring moor—is it because, like me, they long for their wives that they cry at every hour without pause?
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito
Okuyama no iwa ni kokemushi kashikoku mo toitamau kamo omoi aenaku ni
Like the moss grown on the rocks deep in the mountains, so awesome is it that you ask this of me—though I have had no time to gather my thoughts.
Manyoshu - Fujii no Hironari
Waga seko ni koureba kurushi itoma araba hiriite yukamu koiwasuregai
Longing for you, my dear, is so painful. If I have a moment, I will gather some as I go: the shells that let one forget love.
Manyoshu - Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue
Ōnaraba kamo kamo semu o kashikomi to furitaki sode o shinobite aru kamo
If you were of ordinary rank, I would do this and that to show my grief; but because I am in awe of you, I hold back the sleeves I long to wave.
Manyoshu - Kojima
Yamatoji wa kumogakuritari shikaredomo waga furu sode o nameshi tomou na
The road to Yamato lies hidden in the clouds. And yet, please do not think it insolent of me to wave my sleeves to you.
Manyoshu - Kojima
Yamatoji no kibi no kojima o sugite yukaba tsukushi no kojima omōemu kamo
When I pass Kojima in Kibi on the road to Yamato, I shall surely find myself thinking of Kojima of Tsukushi.
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito
Masurao to omoeru ware ya mizukuki no mizuki no ue ni namida nogowamu
Must I, who have always thought myself a man of valor, now wipe away my tears beside the embankment of Mizuki?
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito
Shimashiku mo yukite miteshika kamunabi no fuchi wa asenite se ni ka naruramu
If only for a little while, I long to go and see it. Has the deep pool at Kamunabi grown shallow and turned into a shoal?
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito
Sashisuki no kurusu no ono no hagi no hana chiramu toki ni shi yukite tamukemu
When the bush clover flowers on the little moor of Kurusu begin to fall, then I shall go and make offerings to the gods.
Manyoshu - Ōtomo no Tabito
Chiyorozu no ikusa naritomo kotoage sezu torite kinubeki onoko zo omou
Even against an army of ten million, he is a man, I believe, who would take them without a word of boasting and come back home.
Manyoshu - Takahashi no Mushimaro
Masurao no yuku to iu michi zo ōroka ni omoite yuku na masurao no tomo
This is the road that men of valor travel. Do not set out thinking lightly of it, you band of valiant men.
Manyoshu - Emperor Shōmu
Kakushitsutsu araku o yomi zo tamakiharu mijikaki inochi o nagaku hori suru
Because it is so good to be living like this, I long for this short life of mine to last a long time.
Manyoshu - Abe no Hironiwa
Naniwagata shiohi no nagori yoku mitemu ie naru imo ga machi towamu tame
I will take a good look at what the ebbing tide has left on the flats of Naniwa, for my wife waiting at home will surely ask me about it.
Manyoshu - Kamikoso no Oyumaro
Tadakoe no kono michi ni shite oshiteru ya naniwa no umi to nazukekerashi mo
It must have been from this very road, the Straight Crossing, that people named it "the dazzling sea of Naniwa."
Manyoshu - Kamikoso no Oyumaro