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- Shui Wakashu
Arachio no karu ya no saki ni tatsu shika mo ito ware bakari mono wa omowaji
Even a deer standing before the arrow of a fearless hunter would not, I think, brood as deeply as I do.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Araiso no hoka yuku nami no hokagokoro ware wa omowaji koi wa shinu tomo
Like waves that drift away beyond the rough shore—such a wandering heart I will never have, even if this love should be the death of me.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Kakikumori ame furu kawa no sasaranami ma naku mo hito no koiraruru kana
Like ripples rising on a river beneath a darkened sky and falling rain, without a moment's pause I find myself longing for you.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Waga goto ya kumo no uchi ni mo omouramu ame mo namida mo furi ni koso fure
Are the clouds, too, brooding just as I am? For the rain and my tears both keep falling and falling without end.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Furu ame ni idete mo nurenu waga sode no kage ni inagara hijimasaru kana
My sleeve does not get so wet even when I go out into the falling rain, yet here, sheltered from it, it grows wetter and wetter.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Kore o dani kaki zo wazurau ame to furu namida o nogou itoma nakereba
I can barely manage to write even this much, for I have no time to wipe away the tears that fall like rain.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kimi kouru ware mo hisashiku narinureba sode ni namida mo furinuberanari
I have longed for you for so long that the tears falling on my sleeve, it seems, are growing old along with me.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kimi kouru namida no kakaru Sode no ura wa iwao nari tomo kuchi zo shinubeki
The Bay of the Sleeve, drenched with the tears I shed in longing for you, would surely crumble away even if it were made of solid rock.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Mada shiranu omoi ni moyuru waga mi kana saru wa namida no kawa no uchi nite
This self of mine burns in a fire of love I have never known before—and that while standing in the midst of a river of tears.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kaze o itami omowanu kata ni tomari suru ama no obune mo kaku ya waburan
Driven by fierce winds to moor at a harbor it never meant to reach, is the fisherman's little boat as troubled as I am now?
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Kageakira
Se o hayami taezu nagaruru mizu yori mo tsukisenu mono wa namida narikeri
More endless than the water that flows on without ceasing through the swift rapids are the tears I shed.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Waga gotoku mono omou hito wa inishie mo ima yukusue mo araji to zo omou
I believe that no one who broods in love as I do has ever been, is now, or ever will be.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kurokami ni shirokami majiri ouru made kakaru koi ni wa imada awazaru ni
I have lived until white hairs mingle with the black, and yet never before have I met with such a love as this.
Shui Wakashu - Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue
Shio miteba irinuru iso no kusa nare ya miraku sukunaku kouraku no ōki
Are you like the grass of the shore that hides beneath the rising tide? So seldom do I see you, and so great is my longing.
Shui Wakashu - Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue
Shika no ama no tsuri ni tomoseru isaribi no honoka ni hito o miru yoshi mo gana
Like the fishing fires the fishermen of Shika light for their night fishing, if only there were some way to glimpse you, however faintly.
Shui Wakashu - Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue
Iwane fumi kasanaru yama wa nakeredomo awanu hikazu o koi ya wataran
Though no layered mountains with rocky paths to tread stand between us, must I go on longing for you through all the days we do not meet?
Shui Wakashu - Lady Ōtomo no Sakanoue