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- Senzai Wakashu
Naozari no soradanome tote machishi yo no kurushikarishi zo ima wa koishiki
Those nights I spent waiting on your careless, empty promises were so painful, and yet now it is those very nights that I long for.
Senzai Wakashu - Inpumon-in no Taifu
Oshimikane ge ni iishiranu wakare kana tsuki mo ima wa no ariake no sora
Unable to hold back my regret, this parting is truly beyond words; and the moon, too, has come to its last moment in the sky at dawn.
Senzai Wakashu - Kujō Kanezane
Koiwaburu kokoro wa sora ni ukinuredo namida no soko ni mi wa shizumu kana
My heart, worn out with love, has floated off into the sky, yet my body sinks down to the bottom of my tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Sanjō Sanefusa
Omoikane koyuru sekiji ni yo o fukami yakoe no tori ni ne o zo soetsuru
Unable to bear my longing, I came to the barrier road, but the night was still deep, and to the cock's many cries before the dawn I added the sound of my own weeping.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masayori
Yo ni shiranu aki no wakare ni uchisoete hitoyari narazu mono zo kanashiki
On top of this parting from autumn, sadder than any the world has known, a sorrow wells up in me that no one has forced upon me but my own heart.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Michichika
Chigirishi ni arazu Naruto no hamachidori ato dani misenu urami o zo suru
You have turned out unlike what you promised, like the plover on the shore of Naruto that leaves not even a footprint; you send not even a letter, and I gaze on the shore in resentment.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsuneie
Shika bakari chigirishi naka mo kawarikeru kono yo ni hito o tanomikeru kana
In this world, where even a bond sealed with such vows can change, how I trusted in another's heart.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Aki no yo o mono omou koto no kagiri to wa hitori nezame no makura ni zo shiru
That the autumn night is the very height of love's brooding, I come to know on my pillow, waking in the night as I sleep alone.
Senzai Wakashu - Kenshō
Yoshi saraba kimi ni kokoro wa tsukushiten mata mo koishiki hito mo koso are
Well then, so be it: I will give my whole heart to you, for fear that someone else I might come to love should appear.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Norinaga
Naki hito o omoiidetaru yūgure wa uramishi koto zo kuyashikarikeru
On evenings when I remember the one who is gone, how I regret ever having reproached that person while they lived.
Senzai Wakashu - Prince-Priest Kakushō
Kore o miyo Muta no yodo ni sade sashite shioreshi shizu no asagoromo ka wa
Look at this: is it the hempen robe of some humble fisher, drenched from setting his scoop net in the still pool at Muta? No, it is my own sleeve, soaked with tears of love.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Sasame karu areta no sawa ni tatsu tami mo mi no tame ni koso sode wa nururame
Even the farmers who stand in the marsh of the neglected paddies cutting sasame grass must wet their sleeves for their own livelihood; but I wet mine for one who is cold to me.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Sasa no ha ni arare furu yo no samukeki ni hitori wa nenan mono to ya wa omou
On such a cold night, with hail falling on the bamboo leaves, do you really think I could sleep alone?
Senzai Wakashu - Uma no Naishi
Uramu beki kokoro bakari wa aru mono o naki ni nashite mo towanu kimi kana
I still have a heart, at least, with which to reproach you; and yet you treat me as though I did not exist and never come to visit me.
Senzai Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Kazoe shiru hito nakariseba okuyama no tani no matsu to ya toshi o tsumamashi
Had there been no one to count my years for me, would I, like a pine in a valley deep in the mountains, simply have gone on piling up years unknown to anyone?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Michinaga
Fuetake no yo fukaki koe zo kikoyu naru kishi no matsukaze fuki ya souran
Deep in the night I hear the voice of a bamboo flute. Could the wind through the pines on the shore be blowing along with it?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadanobu