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- Senzai Wakashu
Konomoto ni kakiatsumetaru kotonoha o wakareshi aki no katami to zo miru
These leaves of words that were gathered and written here beneath his roof, like leaves raked under a tree, I look upon as keepsakes of the autumn when we parted.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Masaruko
Konomoto wa kaku kotonoha o miru tabi ni tanomishi kage no naki zo kanashiki
Each time I look upon these leaves of words written here beneath the tree, I grieve that the shade I relied on is gone.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneie
Ato taete yo o nogarubeki michi nare ya iwa sae koke no koromo kitekeri
Is this a road meant for leaving the world behind, where all footprints fade away? Even the rocks have put on robes of moss.
Senzai Wakashu - Cloistered Prince Shukaku
Omoide no araba kokoro mo tomarinan itoiyasuki wa ukiyo narikeri
Had I memories worth keeping, my heart too might linger here; how easy, I find, it is to turn away from this sorrowful world.
Senzai Wakashu - Cloistered Prince Shukaku
Yadori suru iwaya no toko no kokemushiro ikuyo ni narinu i koso nerarene
Mat of moss upon the floor of the cave where I take shelter, how many nights has it been? Sleep will not come to me at all.
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuchū
Mi no hodo o shirazu to hito ya omouran kaku uki nagara toshi o henureba
Do people think I do not know my place? For all these years I have lived on just as I am, in sorrow, without leaving the world.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Muneie
Somukaba ya makoto no michi wa shirazu tomo ukiyo o itou shirushi bakari ni
I long to turn my back on the world. Though I may not know the true path, let it be at least a sign that I have wearied of this sorrowful world.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadayoshi
Somagawa ni orosu ikada no uki nagara sugiyuku mono wa wagami narikeri
Like a raft sent down a timber river, floating on as it goes, what passes on in sorrow, I find, is my own self.
Senzai Wakashu - Bettō of the Nijō Grand Empress Dowager
Onozukara areba aru yo ni nagaraete oshimu to hito ni mienubeki kana
Living on of my own accord in a world that goes on as long as one lives, I will surely seem to others to be clinging to my life.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Ushi tote mo itoi mo hatenu yo no naka o nakanaka nani ni omoishiriken
This is a world I cannot wholly cast away however hard it is; why then, of all things, did I come to know its sorrows so well?
Senzai Wakashu - Gishumon-in no Tango
Noborubeki michi ni zo madou Kuraiyama kore yori oku no shirube nakereba
On the Mountain of Rank I have lost the road I ought to climb, for there is no guide to lead me farther in from here.
Senzai Wakashu - Rin'en
Morohito no hana saku haru o yoso ni mite nao shigururu wa shiishiba no sode
Watching from afar as all the others greet a spring of blossoms, it is my sleeve, dyed the dark gray of mourning, that is still wet with drizzling tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagakata
Ukise ni mo ureshiki se ni mo saki ni tatsu namida wa onaji namida narikeri
In times of sorrow and in times of joy alike, the tears that come before all else are, I find, the very same tears.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Akikata
Kono se ni mo shizumu to kiku wa namidagawa nagareshi yori mo nao masarikeri
Hearing that this time too I am left to sink, the river of my tears swells higher still than when I was first carried off in exile.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Korekata
Kakubakari uki mi naredomo sutehatemu to omou ni nareba kanashikarikeri
Wretched as I am, when it comes to thinking that I will cast this self away for good, how sad it is.
Senzai Wakashu - Kūnin
Omoiki ya Shiga no uranami tachikaeri mata Ōmi to mo naramu mono to wa
Did I ever dream that, like the waves of Shiga's shore that rise and return, I would come back and become one who meets again with the god of Ōmi?
Senzai Wakashu - Taira no Yasuyori