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- Senzai Wakashu
Karakuni ni shizumishi hito mo waga gotoku miyo made awanu nageki o zo seshi
The man in China who was sunk in obscurity, too, felt just as I do the grief of serving three reigns without his time ever coming.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Chigiri okishi sasemo ga tsuyu o inochi nite aware kotoshi no aki mo inumeri
I have lived on your promise, like dew on the sasemo grass, yet, alas, it seems this year's autumn too is slipping away.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Yo no naka no arishi ni mo arazu nariyukeba namida sae koso iro kawarikere
Because the world goes on becoming something other than what it once was, even my tears have changed their color, turned crimson with grief.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Sugikinishi yosoji no haru no yume no yo wa uki yori hoka no omoiide zo naki
In this dreamlike world of forty springs gone by, I have no memories at all other than those of sorrow.
Senzai Wakashu - Kakushin
Hakanashi na uki mi nagara mo suginu beki kono yo o sae mo shinobikanuran
How fleeting it all is! This world will surely pass by even for one as wretched as I, so why is it that I cannot bear even this?
Senzai Wakashu - Kyōin
Yukusue o omoeba kanashi Tsu no kuni no Nagara no hashi mo na wa nokorikeri
When I think of what lies ahead, I grieve: even of the Nagara Bridge in the land of Tsu, only the name remains.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Nanigoto mo kawariyuku meru yo no naka ni mukashi nagara no hashibashira kana
In this world, where everything seems to keep changing, the pillars of the Nagara Bridge stand just as they did of old.
Senzai Wakashu - Dōmyō
Kyō mireba Nagara no hashi wa ato mo nashi mukashi ariki to kikiwataredomo
Looking today, I find not even a trace of the Nagara Bridge, though I have heard all my life that it once stood here.
Senzai Wakashu - Dōin
Hitogokoro arazu naredomo Sumiyoshi no matsu no keshiki wa kawarazarikeri
Though people's hearts are no longer what they once were, the pines of Sumiyoshi have not changed in the least.
Senzai Wakashu - Tsumori no Kagemoto
Shirakumo ni magai ya semashi Yoshinoyama ochikuru taki no oto sezariseba
I might have taken it for a white cloud, the waterfall tumbling down Mount Yoshino, if it had made no sound.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsunetada
Taki no oto wa taete hisashiku narinuredo na koso nagarete nao kikoekere
The sound of the waterfall ceased long ago, yet its name has flowed on through the years and is still heard today.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintō
Nukeba chiru nukaneba midaru ashihiki no yama yori otsuru taki no shiratama
Try to string them and they scatter; leave them unstrung and they fly every which way: the white jewels of the waterfall tumbling from the mountain.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagato
Mizu no iro no tada shirakumo to miyuru kana tare sarashiken Nunobiki no taki
How the color of the water looks just like white clouds! Who could have laid this cloth out to bleach, the Nunobiki Falls?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Akifusa
Ashitazu ni norite kayoeru yado nareba ato dani hito wa mienu narikeri
Since this was a dwelling visited by one who came and went riding on a crane, not even a footprint is to be seen by anyone.
Senzai Wakashu - Nōin
Yamabito no mukashi no ato o kite mireba munashiki yuka o harau tanikaze
When I come to see the dwelling the mountain hermit left long ago, there is only the valley wind sweeping across his empty floor.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyosuke
Oto ni nomi kikishi wa koto no kazu narade na yori mo takaki Nunobiki no taki
What I had only heard by report was nothing at all; higher even than its fame stand the Nunobiki Falls.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshikiyo