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- Sankashu
Fukimidaru kaze ni nabiku to miru hodo ni haru o musuberu aoyagi no ito
Even as I watch them bend in the wild, tangling wind, the green willow's threads catch the falling blossoms and bind up the spring itself.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Momiji mishi takano no mine no hanazakari tanomenu hito no mataruru ya nani
The peak of Kōya, where we viewed the autumn leaves together, is now in full blossom. Why is it that I find myself waiting for you, who never promised to come?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tomo ni mishi mine no momiji no kai nare ya hana no ori ni mo omoiidekeru
Was it the reward for the autumn leaves we viewed together on the peak, that even in the season of blossoms you thought of me?
Sankashu - Jakuzen
Niwa yori wa sagi iru matsu no kozue ni zo yuki wa tsumoreru natsu no yo no tsuki
Not in the garden but up in the pine boughs where the herons rest is where the snow seems piled, under the moon on a summer night.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Matsugane no iwata no kishi no yūsuzumi kimi ga are na to omoyuru kana
Taking the evening cool on the bank of Iwata where the pine roots spread, how I find myself wishing you were here.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Katsuragi ya masaki no iro wa aki ni nite yoso no kozue wa midori naru kana
On Katsuragi, the masaki vines are colored as if it were autumn, while the treetops all around are still green.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kumite nado kokoro kayowaba towazaran idetaru mono o kiku no shitamizu
If our hearts truly flowed together, why would you not draw on this and come to visit me? I have come out from the mountains—have you not heard it, like the water beneath the chrysanthemums?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tani fukaku sumu ka to omoite towanu ma ni urami o musubu kiku no shitamizu
Thinking you still lived deep in your clear valley, I did not visit, and in that time I made you scoop up resentment, like water from beneath the chrysanthemums.
Sankashu - Kakuken Ajari
Omoe tada kurenu to kikishi kane no oto wa miyako nite dani kanashikarishi o
Just think: the bell that told me the day was over sounded sad even when I was in the capital—how much more here on the road.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Arashi fuku mine no konoha ni tomonaite izuchi ukaruru kokoro naruran
Swept along with the leaves on the peaks where the storm winds blow, where, I wonder, is this wandering heart of mine bound?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nani to naku otsuru konoha mo fuku kaze ni chiriyuku kata wa shirare ya wa senu
Even leaves that fall for no particular reason—can it not be known where the blowing wind will scatter them? Surely it can.
Sankashu - Fujiwara no Narimichi
Akugareshi kokoro o michi no shirube nite kumo ni tomonau mi to zo narinuru
Taking as your guide on the path the very heart that longed to wander, you have become one who travels in the company of the clouds.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yama no ha ni tsuki sumu maji to shirareniki kokoro no sora ni naru to mishi yori
I knew the moon would not stay to shine on the mountain's rim, from the moment I saw my heart had drifted off into the sky.
Sankashu - Gensei
Kokoro o ba fukaki momiji no iro ni somete wakarete yuku ya chiru ni naruran
Leaving my heart dyed in the deep color of these autumn leaves, is it my parting and going away that serves as their scattering?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Namida nomi kakikurasaruru tabi nare ya sayaka ni miyo to tsuki wa sumedomo
Is this a journey on which only tears darken my sight? The moon shines so clear, as if to say, "Look at me well," and yet I cannot.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Mi ni mo shimi mono aware naru keshiki sae aware o semuru kaze no oto kana
As if the scene itself, piercing me and full of sorrow, were not enough, there comes the sound of the wind, pressing the sorrow harder still.
Sankashu - Saigyō