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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Obotsukana miyako ni sumanu miyakodori koto tou hito ni ikaga kotaeshi
I cannot help but wonder: capital bird, you who never lived in the capital, what answer did you give the one who asked you about those there?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gishumon-in no Tango
Yo no naka o itou made koso katakarame kari no yadori o oshimu kimi kana
Renouncing the world may be hard to do, and yet you begrudge even a borrowed lodging in this world that is only a passing inn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Yo o itou hito to shi kikeba kari no yado ni kokoro tomu na to omou bakari zo
Since I hear you are one who has renounced the world, I only thought you should not set your heart on a borrowed lodging in this passing world.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Tae
Sode ni fuke sazo na tabine no yume mo miji omou kata yori kayou urakaze
Blow against my sleeves, wind from the bay that comes from where my heart longs to be, for surely I will have no dreams as I sleep on this journey.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Tabine suru yumeji wa yuruse utsu no yama seki to wa kikazu moru hito mo nashi
Let the path of my dreams pass through, at least, as I sleep on the road, Mount Utsu; I never heard you were a barrier, and there is no guard to stop me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Miyako ni mo ima ya koromo o utsu no yama yūshimo harau tsuta no shitamichi
In the capital, are they beating robes by now? At Mount Utsu, I brush off the evening frost along the path beneath the ivy.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Sode ni shimo tsuki kakare to wa chigiri okazu namida wa shiru ya utsu no yamagoe
I never promised that the moon should rest upon my sleeve, yet there it shines; do my tears know the reason, crossing Mount Utsu?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kamo no Chomei
Tatsutayama aki yuku hito no sode o mi yo kigi no kozue wa shigurezari keri
Look at the sleeves of those who cross Mount Tatsuta in autumn: it was not the autumn showers that dyed the treetops red.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Satori yuku makoto no michi ni irinureba koishikarubeki furusato mo nashi
Since I have entered on the true path that leads to awakening, there is no longer any home for me to long for.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Furusato ni kaeramu koto wa asukagawa wataranu saki ni fuchise tagau na
I will return home tomorrow, so, river Asuka, do not change your deep pools into shallows before I have crossed.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sokaku
Toshi takete mata koyubeshi to omoiki ya inochi nari keri saya no nakayama
Grown old, did I ever think I would cross this pass again? It is only because I am still alive: Saya-no-Nakayama.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Omoioku hito no kokoro ni shitawarete tsuyu wakuru sode no kaerinuru kana
Drawn by the longing heart of the one I left behind, my sleeves, parting the dewy grass, keep turning back toward home.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Miru mama ni yamakaze araku shigurumeri miyako mo ima ya yosamu naruramu
Even as I watch, the mountain wind blows wildly and cold showers seem to fall; in the capital, too, the nights must be turning cold by now.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Go-Toba In
Yoso ni nomi mite ya yaminan Katsuragi ya Takama no yama no mine no shirakumo
Must it end with my only gazing from afar, as at the white clouds on the peak of Mount Takama in Katsuragi?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Oto ni nomi ari to kikikoshi Miyoshino no taki wa kyō koso sode ni ochikere
The falls of Yoshino, which until now I had known only by hearsay, have today at last come tumbling down upon my sleeve.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ashihiki no yamada moru io ni oku kabi no shitakogaretsutsu waga kouraku wa
Like the smudge fire set by the watchman's hut in a mountain paddy, smoldering low beneath its smoke, so my love goes on burning in secret, never breaking into flame.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro