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- Shui Wakashu
Nageki koru yamaji wa hito mo shiranaku ni waga kokoro nomi tsune ni yukuran
No one else knows the mountain path where the firewood of grief is cut—so why is it that my heart alone always wanders there?
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Aritoki
Kagiri naki omoi no sora ni michinureba ikuso no keburi kumo to naruran
The fire of my boundless love has filled the whole sky—how many plumes of its smoke, I wonder, must have turned into clouds?
Shui Wakashu - Emperor En'yū
Sora ni mitsu omoi no keburi kumo naraba nagamuru hito no me ni zo miemashi
If the smoke of your love that fills the sky were truly clouds, surely I, gazing up in longing, would have seen it with my own eyes.
Shui Wakashu - Shōshō no Kōi
Omowazu wa tsurenaki koto mo tsurakaraji tanomeba hito o uramitsuru kana
If I did not love you, your coldness would not hurt; it is because I trust in you that I have come to resent you so.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsurakeredo uramuru kagiri arikereba mono wa iwarede ne koso nakarure
You are cold to me, yet even resentment has its limits; I can no longer say a word, and can only weep aloud.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kurenai no yashio no koromo kaku shi araba omoisomezu zo arubekarikeru
I came to love as deeply as a robe dyed eight times over in crimson; had I known it would end like this, I should never have let myself begin.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Honoka ni mo ware o Mishima no akutabi no aku to ya hito no otozure mo senu
You barely glimpsed me, and yet, like the rubbish fires of Mishima, have you already tired of me, that you do not even come to call?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hito o toku Akutagawa chō Tsu no kuni no Naniwa tagawanu mono ni zo arikeru
Just like the Akuta River in the land of Tsu, said to tire quickly of people, you have proven true to your name—as the name Naniwa says.
Shui Wakashu - Shōkyōden no Chūnagon
Kagiri naku omoisometeshi kurenai no hito o aku ni zo kaerazarikeru
The love I began for you, dyed deep as crimson without limit, never faded, as crimson does not in lye, into weariness of you.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ariso umi no ura to tanomeshi nagorinami uchiyosetekeru wasuregai kana
The lingering waves of one who made me trust from the depths of my heart, as deep as the bay of Ariso, have washed ashore nothing but the shell of forgetting.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsurakeredo hito ni wa iwazu Iwamigata urami zo fukaki kokoro hitotsu ni
Though you are cold to me, I tell no one; like the deep bay of Iwami Lagoon, my resentment runs deep within my heart alone.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Uraminu mo utagawashiku zo omoboyuru tanomu kokoro no naki ka to omoeba
Even your not resenting me seems suspicious, for I wonder whether it is because you have no heart that trusts in me at all.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ōmi naru Uchide no hama no uchiidetsutsu urami ya semashi hito no kokoro o
As the name of Uchide Beach in Ōmi suggests, shall I speak out at last and reproach that cold heart of yours?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Watatsumi no fukaki kokoro wa arinagara uramirarenuru mono ni zo arikeru
Though my heart runs as deep as the ocean, it seems that I am still to be resented.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kazu naranu mi wa kokoro dani nakaranan omoishirazu wa uramizarubeku
For a self of no account like mine, I wish there were not even a heart, so that, knowing nothing, it would feel no resentment.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Uramite no nochi sae hito no tsurakaraba ika ni iite ka ne o mo nakamashi
If you remain cold to me even after I have voiced my resentment, then with what words am I to weep aloud?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet