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- Sankashu
Yuki wakete fukaki yamaji ni komorinaba toshi kaerite ya kimi ni au beki
If I push through the snow and shut myself away on the deep mountain path, will it be only after the year has turned that I can see you again?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Wakete yuku yamaji no yuki wa fukaku to mo toku tachikaere toshi ni taguete
However deep the snow on the mountain path you push through, come back to us soon, returning together with the turning year.
Sankashu - Chūgū no Daibu (Master of the Empress's Household)
Kasumedomo toshi no uchi wa to wakane ma ni haru o tsugu naru yamagawa no mizu
The haze has risen, yet while I still cannot tell the season, thinking it is the old year, the water of the mountain stream seems already to be announcing spring.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Haru to shi mo nao omowarenu kokoro kana ame furu toshi no kokochi nomi shite
Somehow my heart still cannot believe that it is spring; as the rain falls, I feel only that the old year is still with me.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Toshi wa haya tsukinami kakete koenikeri mube tsumi habeshi shiba no wakadachi
The year has already followed the round of months and crossed over into spring. No wonder, then, that they are out picking the young shoots of the brushwood.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nani to naku yuki ni narinu to kiku hi yori kokoro ni kakaru miyoshino no yama
For no reason I can name, from the day I hear that it has turned to snow, the mountains of fair Yoshino will not leave my heart.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Itsushika mo hatsuharusame zo furinikeru nobe no wakana mo oiya shineran
Before I knew it, the first rain of the new spring has fallen. Have the young greens in the fields already begun to sprout?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yamaji koso yuki no shitamizu tokezarame miyako no sora wa harumekinuran
Here on the mountain path, the water under the snow has surely not yet thawed, but the sky over the capital must already be turning to spring.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yuki wakete toyama ga tani no uguisu wa fumoto no sato ni haru ya tsuguran
Making its way through the snow, does the warbler of the outer hills' valley go down to tell the village at the foot of the mountains that spring has come?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Obotsukana haru no hikazu no furu mama ni sagano no yuki wa kie ya shinuran
I cannot help wondering: as the days of spring go by, has the snow on Sagano melted away by now?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tachikaeri kimi ya toikuru to matsu hodo ni mada kieyarazu nobe no awayuki
While I wait, wondering whether you might come back to visit, the light snow on the fields has not yet melted away.
Sankashu - Jōnin
Omoihatete furusu ni kaeru uguisu wa tabi no negura ya sumiukaritsuru
The warbler that has made up its mind and come back to its old nest—did it find its roosts on the road too hard to live in?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tsuki mireba kaze ni sakura no eda naete hana yo to tsuguru kokochi koso sure
As I gaze at the moon, the cherry branches bend in the wind, and it feels as though they are telling me the blossoms are on their way.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hana o mishi mukashi no kokoro aratamete yoshino no sato ni suman to zo omou
Renewing the heart with which I once gazed at the blossoms long ago, I mean to make my home in the village of Yoshino.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Omoitsutsu hana no kudamono tsumitekeri yoshino no hito no miyatate ni shite
Thinking of you all the while, I have picked the fruit called "blossom," as a gift for Miyatate, who lives in Yoshino.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kokorozashi fukaku hakoberu miyatate o satori hirakemu haru ni taguē yo
The gift you sent to Miyatate, carried here with such deep goodwill—please let it be likened to the spring in which my enlightenment will open into bloom.
Sankashu - Miyatate