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- Masukagami
Kagirinaki yowaiwaimada kokonosoji naochiyotōki harunimoarukana
A life without limit, and only ninety years so far: this spring is still far from a thousand ages.
Masukagami - Emperor Fushimi
Yoyonoatoni naotachinoboru oinonami yorikentoshiwa kyōnotamekamo
The wave of age rises higher still than the precedents of former ages; were all the years it carried in for the sake of this day?
Masukagami - Fujiwara no Sanekane
Atotomete towarurumiyono hikarioya yukinouchinimo omoiizuran
Does she remember, even there within the snow, the light of a reign that leaves its traces and comes to ask after her?
Masukagami - Kujo Takahiro
Nakihitono kasaneshitsumimo kienetote yukinonakanimo atootoukana
So that the sins the dead woman piled up may melt away, I come even through the snow to seek her traces.
Masukagami - Kameyama In
Kumonoueni chiyoomeguran hajimetote kyōnohikagemo kakuyahisashiki
A thousand ages are to turn above the clouds, and today is their beginning: is that why today's light lasts so long?
Masukagami - Emperor Fushimi
Okiwakare yukusoramonaki michishibano tsuyuyorisakini wareyakenamashi
I have no heart to rise and go. Sooner than the dew on the roadside grass, might I not vanish first?
Masukagami - Minamoto no Arifusa
Kuraiyama noborihatetemo mineniouru matsunikokoroo naonokosukana
Though I have climbed the Mountain of Rank to the very top, my heart is left still among the pines that grow on the summit.
Masukagami - Minamoto no Arifusa
Atsumekoshi madonohotaruno hikarimote omoishiyorimo mioterasukana
By the light of the fireflies I gathered at my window, my own life is lit more brightly than I ever thought it would be.
Masukagami - Minamoto no Arifusa
Otomegoga sasuyaogushino sonokamio tomoninarenishi tokizowasurenu
The comb the dancing girl sets in her hair; and that hair, that time long ago—I have not forgotten the days when we were close.
Masukagami - Fushimi In
Itodomata kozonokoyoizo shinobaruru tsugenoogushio mirunitsuketemo
All the more does last year's night on this same night come back to me, whenever I look at this little boxwood comb.
Masukagami - Takatsukasa Kanetada
Shitawaruru nagorinitaezu tsukiomireba kumonouenizo kagewanarinuru
Unable to bear what remains of my longing, I look at the moon: its light has gone already above the clouds.
Masukagami - Kameyama In
Kimiwayoshi chitosenoyowai tamotereba aiminkotono kazumoshirarezu
You hold, happily, a life of a thousand years; so the times we shall meet again are past all counting.
Masukagami - Emperor Go-Nijo
Monoonomi omoinezameni tsukuzukuto mirumokanashiki tomoshibinoiro
Waking from a sleep filled with grief, I gaze and gaze; and even to look at it is sad, the colour of the lamp.
Masukagami - Yugimon'in
Harukiteshi kasuminokoromo hosanumani kokoromokururu akigirinosora
The robe thin as haze that I put on in spring has not dried, and now my heart too darkens under the autumn mist.
Masukagami - Yugimon'in
Asuyorino shiguremomatade sometekeri sodenonamidaya tsutanomomijiba
They have been dyed without waiting for tomorrow's showers. Was it the tears on my sleeve that coloured these ivy leaves?
Masukagami - The Prince of the Dazaifu Office
Yomowamina namidanoironi sometekeri sorawanurenu akinomomijiba
On every side everything is dyed the colour of tears; the sky has not wet them, and still these autumn leaves are red.
Masukagami - Shokunmon'in