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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Toko no shimo makura no kōri kiewabinu musubi mo okanu hito no chigiri ni
The frost upon my bed and the ice upon my pillow cannot melt away, because of the vow that the one I love never bound.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Tsurenasa no tagui made ya wa tsurakaranu tsuki o mo medeji ariake no sora
Could anything that resembles your coldness fail to pain me? So I will not admire even the moon that lingers, unfeeling, in the sky at dawn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ariie
Sode no ue ni tare yue tsuki wa yadoru zo to yoso ni nashite mo hito no toe kashi
"For whose sake does the moon dwell upon your sleeve?" If only you would ask me that, even as though it were no concern of yours.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Natsubiki no tebiki no ito no toshi hete mo taenu omoi ni musubōre tsutsu
Like thread spun by hand in summer, my love has never broken through all the years, and my heart stays tangled and knotted in it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Echizen
Ikuyo ware nami ni shiorete kibunegawa sode ni tama chiru mono omouran
For how many nights must I, drenched by the waves of the Kibune River, sink in longing, with jewels of tears scattering on my sleeves?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Toshi mo henu inoru chigiri wa hatsuseyama onoe no kane no yoso no yūgure
The years too have gone by. The vow I pray for is like the bell on the peak of Mount Hatsuse, tolling an evening that belongs to someone else.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Ukimi o ba ware dani itou itoe tada so o dani onaji kokoro to omowan
Even I despise this wretched self of mine. Then you despise it too; in that at least I will think our hearts are one.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Koishinan onaji ukina o ika ni shite au ni kaetsu to hito ni iwaren
I shall surely die of love. Since the rumors will be the same either way, somehow I would have people say that I gave my life in exchange for meeting her.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Nagakata
Asu shiranu inochi o zo omou onozukara araba au yo o matsu ni tsukete mo
I think of this life of mine that may not last until tomorrow, all the more as I wait for a night when we might meet, if by chance I am still alive.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Inpumon-in no Taifu
Tsure mo naki hito no kokoro wa utsusemi no munashiki koi ni mi o ya kaeten
The heart of the one who cares nothing for me will not change; must I then trade my life for a love as empty as a cicada's cast-off shell?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Hachijoin no Takakura
Nani to naku sasuga ni oshiki inochi kana arieba hito ya omoishiru tote
For no particular reason, and yet after all, how dear this life is to me, thinking that if I live on, she may come to understand how I feel.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Omoishiru hito arikeri no yo narise ba tsukisezu mi o ba uramizaramashi
If this were a world in which there was someone who understood my heart, I would not go on resenting myself without end.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Wasureji no yukusue made wa katakereba kyō o kagiri no inochi to mo gana
Since it is hard for your vow, "I will never forget you," to hold true far into the future, I wish my life would end today, on the very day I heard it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Takashina no Takako (Mother of Gidō Sanshi)
Kagiri naku musubi okitsuru kusamakura izuko no tabi o omoi wasuren
That night of travel on a pillow of grass, where we bound vows beyond all measure—how could I ever forget it, as if I could not recall where that journey had been?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Koretada
Omou ni wa shinoburu koto zo makenikeru au ni shi kaeba sa mo araba are
My will to keep my love hidden has lost to the yearning itself. If it is the price of meeting you, let whatever may happen, happen.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ariwara no Narihira
Kinō made au ni shi kaeba to omoishi o kyō wa inochi no oshiku mo aru kana
Until yesterday I thought I would give my life gladly if it were the price of meeting you; yet today, having met you, how dearly I wish to live.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoritada (Rengi-kō)