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- Sankashu
Sumu koto wa tokorogara zo to iinagara Takano wa mono no aware naru kana
They say that how one lives depends upon the place, and yet Kōya is truly a place that moves the heart.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Asaku ideshi kokoro no mizu ya tatauran sumiyuku mama ni fukaku naru kana
Has the water of the heart, which welled up shallow at first, now brimmed full? As I dwell on and it grows clear, it deepens more and more.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Arashi nomi tokidoki mado ni otozurete akenuru sora no nagori o zo omou
Only the storm wind now and then comes knocking at my window, and I think of what lingers of the night in the sky now turned to dawn.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Koyoi koso awaremi atsuki kokochi shite arashi no oto o yoso ni kikitsure
Tonight above all, feeling your kindness thick as the robe you gave me, I heard the roar of the storm as something far away.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuyu moranu iwaya mo sode wa nurekeri to kikazu wa ikaga ayashikaramashi
Had I not heard that even in a cave where no dew drips, one's sleeves were wet, how strange I would have found it.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Wakekitsuru ozasa no tsuyu ni sobochitsutsu hoshi zo wazurau sumizome no sode
Drenched again and again by the dew on the bamboo grass I pushed through, my ink-black sleeves will not dry.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kesa no iro ya wakamurasaki ni sometekeru koke no tamoto o omoikaeshite
Have you dyed your surplice the color of young purple, changing your mind about the moss-colored sleeves of a hermit?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kienu beki tsuyu no inochi mo kimi ga tou koto no ha ni koso okiirarekere
Even this dewdrop life, about to vanish, was able to rise and stay awake, thanks to the words with which you called on me.
Fukisuguru kaze shi yaminaba tanomoshimi aki no nomose no tsuyu no shiratama
If only the wind that sweeps by would cease, how reassuring it would be for the white jewels of dew across the autumn fields.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Koto no ne ni namida o soete nagasu kana taenamashikaba to omou aware ni
To the music of the koto I add my tears and let them flow, moved by the thought of what if your life had ended.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tanomu beki koto mo naki mi o kyō made mo nani ni kakareru tama no o naran
A self with nothing to rely on, what, I wonder, is this thread of life hanging on to, that it has lasted until today?
Sankashu - Kojiju
Sadamenashi kaze wazurawanu ori dani mo mata kon koto o tanomu beki yo ka
Nothing is certain. Even when not ill with a cold, is this a world where one can count on coming back again?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ada ni chiru ko no ha ni tsukete omou kana kaze sasou meru tsuyu no inochi o
Watching the leaves that scatter so lightly, I think of my own dewdrop life, which the wind seems about to sweep away.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ware naku wa kono satobito ya aki fukaki tsuyu o tamoto ni kakete shinoban
When I am gone, will the people of this village remember me, with the deep dew of autumn wetting their sleeves?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Samazama ni aware ōkaru wakare kana kokoro o kimi ga yado ni todomete
How full of sorrow in so many ways this parting is, as I go, leaving my heart behind at your house.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kaeredomo hito no nasake ni shitawarete kokoro wa mi ni mo sowazu narinuru
Though I return to my temple, drawn by everyone's kindness, my heart no longer keeps company with my body.
Sankashu - Saigyō