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- Shui Wakashu
Sashinagara hito no kokoro o Mikumano no ura no hamayū ikue naruran
If I could see another's heart just as it is, how many layers would it hold, like the crinum lilies of Mikumano Bay?
Shui Wakashu - Taira no Kanemori
Yo no hito no oyobanu mono wa Fuji no ne no kumoi ni takaki omoi narikeri
What no one in the world can match is my love, burning like the fire on Fuji's peak, soaring high above the clouds.
Shui Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Waga koi no arawa ni miyuru mono naraba miyako no Fuji to iwarenamashi o
If my love could be seen for what it is, I would surely have been called the Fuji of the capital.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ashine hau uki wa ue koso tsurenakere shita wa e narazu omou kokoro o
The marsh where the reed roots creep looks cold and unconcerned on its surface, yet beneath it lies a heart that loves beyond all measure.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Nenunawa no kurushikaruran hito yori mo ware zo Masuda no ikeru kai naki
More than that person, who must be suffering as if hauling in water shield, I suffer far worse—like Masuda Pond, I find no point in living.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tarachine no oya no kau ko no mayugomori ibuseku mo aru ka imo ni awazu shite
Like silkworms my parents raise, shut away in their cocoons, my heart is heavy and closed, for I cannot meet my love.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Isa ya mada koi chō koto mo shiranaku ni ko ya so naruran i koso nerarene
I hardly know—I still don't know what love is, and yet could this be it? I cannot sleep at all.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tarachine no oya no isameshi utatane wa mono omou toki no waza ni zo arikeru
So the dozing off my parents warned me against is what one does when brooding over love.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Uchi to naku nare mo shinamashi tamasudare tare toshitsuki o hedatesomeken
We might have grown close, with no barrier between inside and out; who was it, letting down the jeweled blind, who first set these long years between us?
Shui Wakashu - Nakatsukasa
Ukarikeru fushi o ba sutete shiraito no ima kuru hito to omoinasanan
Cast off the bitter knots of the past, as one does when reeling white thread, and think of me as someone coming to you for the very first time.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Omou tote ito koso hito ni narezarame shika naraite zo mineba koishiki
However much you love someone, do not grow too used to them; it is because I have grown so used to you that I long for you so when we are apart.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tamakura no sukima no kaze mo samukariki mi wa narawashi no mono ni zo arikeru
Once even the wind slipping through the gap of your arm beneath my head felt cold; the body, I see, is a creature of habit.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Fuku kaze ni kumo no hatate wa todomu tomo ikaga tanoman hito no kokoro wa
Even if the trailing edges of the clouds could be held back in the blowing wind, how could anyone rely on another's heart?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Wakakusa ni todome mo aenu koma yori mo natsukewabinuru hito no kokoro ka
Harder to win over than a young colt that will not stay even for fresh grass—such is the heart of another.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto no katakai shitaru Michinoku no komahoshiku nomi omōyuru kana
Meeting is so hard that, like a colt of Mutsu kept only half-tamed, all I can think is how I wish you would come.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Michinoku no Adachi no hara no shiramayumi kokoro kowaku mo miyuru kimi kana
Like the white-wood bow made on the plain of Adachi in Mutsu, drawn so taut, your heart seems so stubborn to me.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet