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- Senzai Wakashu
Taezu tatsu Muro no Yashima no keburi kana ika ni tsukisenu omoi naruran
How the smoke of Muro no Yashima rises without end! What an inexhaustible fire of longing must be burning there.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akikata
Katsuragi ya watashi mo hatenu mono yue ni Kume no iwahashi koke oinikeri
At Katsuragi the stone bridge of Kume was never finished, and yet it has grown thick with moss.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Moroyori
Iwa orosu kata koso nakere Ise no umi no shiose ni kakaru ama no tsuribune
There is nowhere to let down the anchor stone: the fishermen's boats caught in the racing tides of the sea of Ise.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Toshitada
Tamamo karu Irago ga saki no iwanematsu ikuyo made ni ka toshi no henuran
The pine rooted in the rock on the cape of Irago, where people gather the jewel-like seaweed: through how many ages has it lived out its years?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akisue
Shio mite wa Nojima ga saki no sayuriba ni nami kosu kaze no fukanu hi zo naki
When the tide comes in, there is never a day when the wind that drives the waves over them fails to blow on the lily leaves of Nojima Cape.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Kyō koso wa miyako no kata no yama no ha mo miezu Naruo no oki ni idenure
Today at last I have rowed out to the waters off Naruo, where even the mountain rims in the direction of the capital can no longer be seen.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneie
Harimagata Suma no harema ni miwataseba nami wa kumoi no mono ni zo arikeru
Looking out over the sea off Harima in a clear spell at Suma, I find that the waves far away belong to the sky itself.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanemune
Harubaru to Omae no oki o miwataseba kumoi ni magau ama no tsuribune
Gazing far out over the sea before the shrine, I see the fishermen's boats, so distant they cannot be told apart from the sky.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yorizane
Naniwagata shioji haruka ni miwataseba kasumi ni ukabu oki no tsuribune
Gazing far across the sea lanes of Naniwa Bay, I see fishing boats in the offing floating in the spring haze.
Senzai Wakashu - Engen
Harugasumi Eshima ga saki o kometsureba nami no kaku tomo mienu kesa kana
Since the spring haze has wrapped the cape of Eshima, this morning I cannot even see the waves breaking against it.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shigetsuna
Yuku toshi wa nami to tomo ni ya kaeruran omogawari senu Waka no ura kana
Do the passing years come back with the waves as they ebb and flow? How the Bay of Waka never changes its face.
Senzai Wakashu - Hafuribe no Narinaka
Kokoro araba nioi o soe yo sakurabana nochi no haru o ba itsuka mirubeki
If you have a heart, O cherry blossoms, add still more to your beauty. For the springs that lie ahead, when shall I ever see them again?
Senzai Wakashu - Emperor Toba
Hakanasa o urami mo hateji sakurabana ukiyo wa tare mo kokoro naraneba
I will not wholly resent your fleeting nature, O cherry blossoms. In this sorrowful world, no one lives as their heart would wish.
Senzai Wakashu - Prince-Priest Kakushō
Yado mo yado hana mo mukashi ni nioedomo nushi naki iro wa sabishikarikeri
The dwelling is the same dwelling, and the blossoms glow as they did long ago, yet how lonely is their color now that their master is gone.
Senzai Wakashu - Jinpan
Inishie ni kawarazarikeri yamazakura hana wa ware o ba ikaga miruran
The mountain cherries have not changed at all from days of old. And the blossoms, how must they see me, now that I have changed?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Motonaga
Kumo no ue no haru koso sara ni wasurarene hana wa kazu ni mo omoiideji o
Above all I cannot forget the springs I spent above the clouds at court. Yet the blossoms, surely, will not think of me as anyone worth remembering.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei