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- Masukagami
Umegaeni yoyonomukashino harukakete kawarazukiiru uguisunokoe
On the plum branch, with the springs of reign after reign hung upon it, the warbler comes and perches unchanged: its voice.
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Yosoyoriwa shiguremoikaga somezaran wagauetemiru yamanomomijiba
How should the showers fail to dye these more deeply than elsewhere—the autumn leaves of the hill I planted myself and watch?
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Toratonomi motenasareshiwa mukashinite imawanezumino anauyononaka
To be treated as a tiger was in the past; now I am a mouse in its hole. How wretched a world.
Masukagami - Prince Munetaka
Naotanomu kitanonoyukino asaborake atonakikotoni uzumorurumiwa
Still I put my trust there: in the Kitano snow at daybreak, where I lie buried under a thing without trace or ground.
Masukagami - Prince Munetaka
Warenomiya kagemokawaran asukagawa onajifuchiseni tsukiwasumutomo
Am I the only one whose form will change, though the moon still lies clear on the same pools and shallows of the Asuka river?
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Kaneteyori sodemoshigurete sumizomeno yūbeiromasu minenomomijiba
Long since, my sleeves were wet with the cold rains; and in the ink-dyed dusk the leaves on the ridge deepen further.
Masukagami - Go-Saga In
Sodenurasu kyōoitsukato omounimo shiguretetsuraki kannazukikana
I had wondered when this day that wets my sleeves would come; and now the cold rain falls, and this tenth month is hard to bear.
Umenohana haruwaharunimo aranuyoo itsutoshiriteka sakiniouran
Plum blossoms, in a world where spring is no longer spring, how did you know the season, that you open and grow fragrant?
Masukagami - Minamoto no Tomouji
Kokoroaraba koromoukiyono umenohana oriwasurezuba niowazaramashi
Had it any heart, the plum of this bitter world would not be in bloom, if it remembered what season this is.
Masukagami - Toin Kinkatsu
Hakanakumo ōnouranashi kimigayoni naranbatomiomo tanomikerukana
How vain it was, with no fruit in prospect, to have set my hopes even on myself, thinking of the day when my lord's reign would come.
Masukagami - Toin Saneo
Yumetodani sadakanimonaki karibushino kusanomakurani tsuyuzokoboruru
It was not clear even as a dream, that brief lying down; and on the pillow of grass the dew spills over.
Masukagami - Go-Fukakusa In
Fushimiyama ikuyorozuyomo edasoete sakaenmatsuno suezohisashiki
On Fushimi hill the pine will flourish through ten thousand ages, adding branch to branch, and its farthest reach is long indeed.
Masukagami - Takatsukasa Kanehira
Sakayubeki hodozohisashiki fushimiyama oisoumatsuno edaotsuranete
Long is the span in which it will flourish: on Fushimi hill the pine grows on, linking branch to branch.
Chokuoshite inorushirushino kamikazeni yosekurunamizo katsukudaketsuru
By imperial command we prayed, and in answer the god's wind rose; the waves that came rolling in were broken as they came.
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Tameuji
Yukusueo naonagakiyoto chigirukana yayoiniutsuru kyōnoharuhini
I pledge the years ahead to be longer still, on this day of spring that turns now into the third month.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Uda
Momoiroto imayanakuran uguisumo kokonokaerino kimigaharuhete
Is the warbler singing now in a hundred voices, having passed through the ninety springs of my lady's years?
Masukagami - Kameyama In