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- Gosen Wakashu
Tsune yori mo okiukaritsuru akatsuki wa tsuyu sae kakaru mono ni zo arikeru
This dawn, when it was harder than ever to rise and leave you, I found that even the dew came falling on my sleeves along with my tears.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Oku shimo no akatsukioki o omowazu wa kimi ga yodono ni yogare semashi ya
Were it not for dreading the dawn when I must rise in the frost and leave, would I ever spend a night away from your bedchamber?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Shimo okanu haru yori nochi no nagame ni mo itsuka wa kimi ga yogare sezarishi
Even after spring, when no frost settles, through the long rains while I sat lost in thought—when was there ever a time you did not stay away?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ise no umi no ama no matekata itoma nami nagaraenikeru mi o zo uramuru
Like the divers on the sea of Ise who never rest their hands, I have had no leisure, and so I resent myself for living on without ever coming to see you.
Gosen Wakashu - Minamoto no Hideakira
Au koto no katano e tote zo ware wa yuku mi o onaji na ni omoinashitsutsu
I am on my way to Katano, whose name speaks of how hard it is to meet—for I take myself to bear the same name, since meeting you is so hard.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tameyo
Kimi ga atari kumoi ni mitsutsu miyajiyama uchikoe yukamu michi mo shiranaku
I gaze toward the place where you live, far off beyond the clouds, yet I do not even know the path over Mount Miyaji that would take me there.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Omou chō koto no ha ika ni natsukashi na nochi uki mono to omowazu mogana
How dear they are to me, those words, "I love you." If only I could hear them without thinking that one day they will bring me pain.
Gosen Wakashu - Toshiko
Omou chō koto koso ukere kuretake no yo ni furu hito no iwanu nakereba
It is the very words "I love you" that are painful, for there is no one living in this world, as many as the joints of the bamboo, who does not say them.
Gosen Wakashu - Daughter of Fujiwara no Kanemochi
Omowamu to ware o tanomeshi koto no ha wa wasuregusa to zo ima wa narurashi
Those words with which you made me trust you, saying you would always love me, seem now to have turned into the grass of forgetting.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ima made mo kiede aritsuru tsuyu no mi wa okubeki yado no areba narikeri
That I, frail as the dew, have not vanished until now is only because there was a dwelling where I might settle—because there was you.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Koto no ha mo mina shimogare ni nariyuku wa tsuyu no yadori mo araji to zo omou
Since even your words have all withered as leaves do under frost, I can only think there is no longer any place for the dew to rest.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Wasuremu to iishi koto ni mo aranaku ni ima wa kagiri to omou mono ka wa
I never once said that I would forget you, so how could I ever think that now it is all over between us?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Utsutsu ni wa fusedo nerarezu okikaeri kinō no yume o itsuka wasuren
Awake, though I lie down I cannot sleep, and keep rising up again. How could I ever forget yesterday's meeting, sweet as a dream?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Sazaranami ma naku tatsumeru ura o koso yo ni asashi tomo mitsutsu wasureme
A bay where ripples seem to rise without a pause—that is the kind of place I would see as truly shallow, and so forget.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ise no umi no chihiro no hama ni hirou tomo ima wa nani chō kai ka arubeki
Even if I were to gather shells on the Chihiro shore of the sea of Ise, what use, what worth, could there be in it now?
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Atsutada
Wasurene to iishi ni kanau kimi naredo towanu wa tsuraki mono ni zo arikeru
You are someone who does just as I told you when I said, "Forget me"—and yet, now that you no longer come, I find how painful it is.
Gosen Wakashu - Hon'in no Kura