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- Senzai Wakashu
Kakubakari ukiyo no naka o shinobite mo matsubeki koto no sue ni aru ka wa
Even if I bear with patience a world as full of sorrow as this, is there anything worth waiting for at the end? Surely not.
Senzai Wakashu - Tōren
Omoikane akugare idete yuku michi wa ayuku kusaba ni tsuyu zo koboruru
Unable to bear my thoughts, I wander out upon the road, and on the trembling grass along the way the dew spills down.
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuzen
Yume to nomi kono yo no koto no miyuru kana samubeki hodo wa itsu to nakeredo
All the things of this world appear to me as nothing but a dream, though when I am to wake from it, I cannot tell.
Senzai Wakashu - Yoen
Kono yo o ba kumo no hayashi ni kadode shite keburi to naran yūbe o zo matsu
Setting out from this world here at the Grove of Clouds, I await the evening when I shall become smoke.
Senzai Wakashu - Ryōzen
Uki koto no madoromu hodo wa wasurarete samureba yume no kokochi koso sure
While I doze my sorrows are forgotten, and when I wake it is the waking world that feels as if it were a dream.
Senzai Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Izuku tomo mi o yaru kata no shirareneba ushi to mitsutsu mo nagarauru kana
Since I know of nowhere at all to which I might send myself away, I live on, seeing all the while how hard this world is.
Senzai Wakashu - Murasaki Shikibu
Uki yume wa nagori made koso kanashikere kono yo no nochi mo nao ya nagekan
A sorrowful dream is sad even in what lingers after waking. When this life is over, will I still go on grieving?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Utsutsu o mo utsutsu to ikaga sadamubeki yume ni mo yume o mizu wa koso arame
How can we ever be certain that waking is truly waking? It might be so, if only we did not dream of dreaming within our dreams.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Suemichi
Itoite mo nao shinobaruru wagami kana futatabi kubeki kono yo naraneba
Though I spurn the world, I still find myself cherishing this self of mine, for this is not a world to which I may come a second time.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Suemichi
Kore ya yume izure ka utsutsu hakanasa o omoiwakade mo suginubeki kana
Is this the dream? Which is waking? I must surely pass my life without ever telling apart their fleeting natures.
Senzai Wakashu - Jōsaimon'in no Hyōe
Asu shiranu Mimuro no kishi no nenashigusa nani adashi yo ni oihajimeken
Rootless grass upon the banks of Mimuro, not knowing if there will be a tomorrow, why did I ever begin to grow in this fleeting world?
Senzai Wakashu - Hanazono no Sadaijin-ke no Kodaishin
Oshikaranu inochi zo sara ni oshimaruru kimi ga miyako ni kaerikuru made
This life of mine, which I never thought worth keeping, now seems all the more precious, until you come back to the capital.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Narimichi
Ukiyo o ba sutete irinishi yama naredo kimi ga tou ni ya iden to suran
Though these are mountains I entered after casting off the sorrowful world, because you have written to me, will I now set out to leave them?
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuchū
Iwa sosoku mizu yori hoka ni oto seneba kokoro hitotsu o sumashite zo kiku
Since there is no sound but the water pouring over the rocks, I listen with my heart alone, made clear and still.
Senzai Wakashu - Cloistered Prince Shukaku
Tare mo mina tsuyu no mi zo kashi to omou ni mo kokoro tomarishi kusa no io kana
Each time I think that all of us are frail as the dew, my heart goes back to that grass hut where it stayed behind.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanekuni
Naozari ni kaeru tamoto wa kawaranedo kokoro bakari zo sumizome no sode
The sleeves of one who calls in passing and goes home again are unchanged, yet in my heart alone I wear the ink-dyed sleeves of a monk.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinhira