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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Keburi tatsu omoi naranedo hito shirezu wabite wa fushi no ne o nomi zo naku
My longing is no fire that sends up smoke like Fuji, yet unknown to anyone, worn down by grief, I lie prostrate and do nothing but weep aloud.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kiyohara no Fukayabu
Kaze fukeba Muro no Yashima no yūkeburi kokoro no sora ni tachinikeru kana
As the evening smoke of Muro no Yashima rises when the wind blows, so my love has risen into the empty sky of my heart, leaving me restless and distracted.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Korenari
Shirakumo no mine ni shimo nado kayouran onaji Mikasa no yama no fumoto o
Why do the white clouds go only to the peak, passing by the foot of the very same Mount Mikasa?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
Kyō mo mata kaku ya Ibuki no sashimogusa saraba ware nomi moe ya wataran
Will you say the same again today? Then shall I alone go on burning, like the moxa grass of Mount Ibuki?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Tsukubayama hayama shigeyama shigekeredo omoiiru ni wa sawarazarikeri
Mount Tsukuba is thick with foothills and wooded slopes, and yet for one whose heart is set on making his way in, they are no hindrance at all.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Shigeyuki
Ware naranu hito ni kokoro o Tsukubayama shita ni kayowan michi dani ya naki
You have spent your heart on someone other than me. Is there not even a path at the foot of Mount Tsukuba by which I might come to you in secret?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Hito shirezu omou kokoro wa ashihiki no yamashitamizu no waki ya kaeran
This heart that longs for you, unknown to anyone: is it seething, welling up like the hidden stream that runs beneath the mountain trees?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ōe no Masahira
Niouran kasumi no uchi no sakurabana omoiyarite mo oshiki haru kana
How lovely they must be, the cherry blossoms hidden in the haze. Even imagining them from afar, how I grieve for the passing spring.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kiyohara no Motosuke
Ikukaeri sakichiru hana o nagametsutsu monoomoi kurasu haru ni auran
How many times must I meet a spring like this, gazing in reverie at blossoms that bloom and fall, and passing my days in brooding?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Okuyama no mine tobikoyuru hatsukari no hatsuka ni dani mo mite ya yaminan
Like the first geese of autumn flying over the peaks of the deep mountains, must it end with only the briefest glimpse of you?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Ōzora o wataru haruhi no kage nare ya yoso ni nomi shite nodokekaruran
Are you the light of the spring sun crossing the wide sky, that you stay always so far apart from me, so calm and untroubled?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Uda
Harukaze no fuku ni mo masaru namida kana waga minakami mo kōri tokurashi
My tears flow more than the waters swelling as the spring wind blows. It seems that at the source of my own river, too, the ice has melted.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Koretada
Mizu no ue ni ukitaru tori no ato mo naku obotsukanasa o omou koro kana
Like birds floating on the water that leave no trace behind, you send no word at all, and in these days I brood in anxious uncertainty.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Koretada
Kataoka no yukima ni nezasu wakakusa no honoka ni miteshi hito zo koishiki
Like the young grass rooting in the gaps of snow on the hillside, I saw her only faintly, and now I long for her so.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sone no Yoshitada
Ato o dani kusa no hatsuka ni miteshigana musubu bakari no hodo narazu tomo
Let me see at least a trace of your hand, however slight, like grass just barely sprouting, even if it is not yet long enough to tie, even if we are not yet close enough to bind a pledge.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Shimo no ue ni ato fumitsukuru hamachidori yukue mo nashi to ne o nomi zo naku
Like the plover of the shore that leaves its tracks upon the frost and cries that it has nowhere to go, I can only weep aloud, my love leading nowhere.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Okikaze