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- Senzai Wakashu
Inishie mo koe miteshikaba Ausaka wa fumitagau beki naka no michi ka wa
Since we have crossed the slope of Ōsaka, the slope of meeting, before, is this a road between us on which I could take a wrong step? How could my letter have gone astray?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsunehira
Kari ni zo to iwanu saki yori tanomarezu tachitomaru beki kokoro naraneba
Even before you told me you were off "for the hunt," just for a passing while, I knew I could not rely on you, for yours is not a heart that would ever stay.
Senzai Wakashu - Akazome Emon
Hitogokoro nani o tanomite Minasegawa seki no furukui kuchihatenuran
Trusting in what part of a fickle human heart have I, like the old stake of the weir on the Minase River, rotted away to nothing?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Urami zu wa wasurenu hito mo ari namashi omoishirade zo aru bekarikeru
Had I not reproached him, there might have been someone who would not forget me; I should have stayed as one who never knew how cold he was.
Senzai Wakashu - Ryūgen
Makoto ni ya mitose mo matade Yamashiro no Fushimi no sato ni niimakura suru
Can it be true that, without waiting even three years, you are sharing a new pillow in the village of Fushimi in Yamashiro?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masasada
Ukihito o shinobu beshi to wa omoiki ya waga kokoro sae nado kawaruran
Did I ever imagine that I would come to long for one so cold to me? Why is it that my own heart, too, should change like this?
Senzai Wakashu - Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Ukarikeru yoyo no chigiri o omou ni mo tsuraki wa ima no kokoro nomi ka wa
When I think of the bitter bonds that have bound me through lives long past, is it only my lover's present heart that is cruel? No, the fate of former lives is cruel as well.
Senzai Wakashu - Jōsaimon'in no Hyōe
Shiru nareba ikani makura no omouran chiri nomi tsumoru toko no keshiki o
Since the pillow, they say, knows all, what must it be thinking as it looks upon my bed, where nothing but dust gathers now?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Chikataka
Hakanaku mo komu yo o kanete chigiru kana futatabi onaji mi to mo naraji o
How vain it is to pledge ourselves even for the world to come, when we shall never again be born into these same selves.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanesada
Omoiideyo yūbe no kumo mo tanabikaba kore ya nageki ni taenu keburi to
Remember me: if the evening clouds trail across the sky, think, "Is this not the smoke of one whose life gave out in grief?"
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadayoshi
Koishinaba ukaren tama yo shibashi dani waga omou hito no tsuma ni todomare
If I should die of love, O my soul that will drift away from me, linger at least a little while on the hem of the robe of the one I love.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Takafusa
Kimi kou to ukinuru tama no sayo fukete ika naru tsuma ni musubarenuran
My soul, which drifted away from me in my longing for you, now that the night grows late, to what hem of whose robe has it been tied, I wonder?
Senzai Wakashu - Kojiju
Kimi kouru kokoro no yami o wabitsutsu wa kono yo bakari to omowamashikaba
If only I could believe that this darkness of a heart in love with you, which I grieve over so, would last for this world alone, how much easier it would be.
Senzai Wakashu - Nijoin no Sanuki
Kawariyuku keshiki o mite mo ikeru mi no inochi o ada ni omoikeru kana
Though I have watched his manner change before my eyes, I live on; and all this while I had thought my life so fragile.
Senzai Wakashu - Inpumon-in no Taifu
Kimi ya aranu waga mi ya aranu obotsukana tanomeshi koto no mina kawarinuru
Is it you who are no longer the same, or I who am no longer myself? I cannot tell. All the promises you gave me to trust in have changed.
Senzai Wakashu - Shun'e
Mono omoedomo kakaranu hito mo aru mono o aware narikeru mi no chigiri kana
There are those who brood over love yet never come to such a state as mine; how pitiful is the bond of destiny that shapes my life.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigyō