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- Senzai Wakashu
Nagaraete kawaru kokoro o miru yori mo au ni inochi o kaetemashikaba
Rather than living on to see your heart change toward me, would that I had traded my life for that one meeting.
Senzai Wakashu - Kujō Kanezane
Au koto no arishi tokoro shi kawarazu wa kokoro o dani mo yaramashi mono o
If only the place where once we met had not changed, I could at least send my heart to you there.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masayori
Utsuriga ni nani shiminiken sayogoromo wasurenu tsuma to narikeru mono o
Why did your lingering scent sink into my night robe? It has become the very thing that keeps me from forgetting you.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsunefusa
Wasurenu ya shinobu ya ikani awanu ma no katami to kikishi akekure no sora
Have you not forgotten? Do you still remember, I wonder? The sky of dawn and dusk you said you'd keep as a keepsake while we are apart.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadayoshi
Omoikane nao koiji ni zo kaerinuru urami wa sue mo tōrazarikeri
Unable to bear it, I have come back again to the road of love; resentment, I find, cannot be followed to its end.
Senzai Wakashu - Shun'e
Misebaya na Ojima no ama no sode dani mo nure ni zo nureshi iro wa kawarazu
How I wish to show him! Even the sleeves of the fisherfolk of Ojima, soaked through and through, have never changed their color—unlike mine.
Senzai Wakashu - Inpumon-in no Taifu
Yamashiro no Mizuno no sato ni imo o okite ikutabi Yodo ni fune yobauran
Leaving my love behind in the village of Mizuno in Yamashiro, how many times, I wonder, shall I call for the boat at Yodo?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Yorimasa
Hito shirezu musubisometeshi wakakusa no hana no sakari mo sugi ya shinuran
The young grass I first tied in a secret bond, unknown to anyone—has she by now, I wonder, passed the full bloom of her flowering?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Takanobu
Ika nareba nagare wa taenu Nakagawa ni ause no kazu no sukunakaruran
Why should it be that in the Naka River, whose flow never ceases, the shallows of meeting should be so few?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akiie
Suminareshi Sano no Nakagawa setae shite nagare kawaru wa namida narikeri
As the Nakagawa at Sano, where I long dwelt, has lost its shallows and changed its course, so our meetings have ceased, and what flows in their place, I find, are my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Nakatsuna
Imasara ni koishi to iu mo tanomarezu kore mo kokoro no kawaru to omoeba
That you say now, after all this time, that you love me—I cannot trust it; for I think this too is only your heart changing.
Senzai Wakashu - Nijoin no Sanuki
Koisomeshi kokoro no iro no nani nareba omoikaesu ni kaerazaruran
The color of a heart that has begun to love, what dye can it be, that however I try to turn it back, it will not return?
Senzai Wakashu - Kojiju
Isejima ya Ichishi no ura no ama dani mo kazukanu sode wa nururu mono ka wa
Even the fisherfolk at Ichishi Bay in Ise—do their sleeves get wet when they do not dive? No; and yet mine are always soaked.
Senzai Wakashu - Dōin
Omoiki ya ukarishi yowa no tori no ne o matsu koto ni shite akasu beshi to wa
Could I have imagined it? That the cock's crow in the night, once so hateful to me, I should now lie waiting for as I pass the night till dawn.
Senzai Wakashu - Shun'e
Karakoromo kaeshite wa neshi natsu no yo wa yume ni mo akade hito wakarekeri
On the summer night I slept with my robe turned inside out, even in my dream, before I had seen enough of her, she parted from me.
Senzai Wakashu - Shun'e
Mi no usa o omoishirade ya yaminamashi aiminu saki no tsurasa nariseba
Would I have ended without ever knowing how wretched my lot is—had this been only the pain of the time before we met?
Senzai Wakashu - Jōken