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- Gosen Wakashu
Kakureite waga uki sama o mizu no ue no awa to mo hayaku omoikienan
Having hidden and seen me in my wretched state, your feelings will surely vanish soon, like foam floating on the water.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hitogokoro isa ya shiranami takakereba yoramu nagisa zo kanete kanashiki
Who can tell what lies in another's heart? The white waves run so high that the shore I would draw near already fills me with sorrow.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Naoki ki ni magareru eda mo aru mono o ke o fuki kizu o iu ga warinasa
Even a straight tree has its crooked branches, yet they blow back the fur to hunt for the smallest flaw—how unreasonable it is!
Gosen Wakashu - Princess Takatsu
Utsurowanu kokoro no fukaku arikereba kokora chiru hana haru ni aeru koto
Because a heart that never changes runs so deep, even the blossoms that scatter in such numbers are able to meet the spring.
Gosen Wakashu - Tachibana no Kachiko
Tamadare no amime no ma yori fuku kaze no samuku wa soete iren omoi o
If the wind that blows in through the gaps in the jeweled blind is cold, I will send in my burning longing along with it.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Shiranami no uchisawagarete tachishikaba mi o ushio ni zo sode wa nurenishi
Because they raised a clamor like the white waves and I had to leave, my sleeves are soaked through in the brine of my sorrow.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tori mo aezu tachisawagareshi adanami ni ayanaku nani ni sode no nureken
Over fickle waves that rose up in a clamor and sent you off in such a hurry, why, for no reason at all, should your sleeves have been soaked?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tadachi to mo tanomazaranan mi ni chikaki koromo no seki mo ari to iu nari
Do not rely on it as a straight and easy road; even the robe that lies so close to the body has its Robe Barrier, so they say.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Awanu ma ni koishiki michi mo shirinishi o nado ureshiki ni mayou kokoro zo
While we were apart, I came to know well the road of longing; so why is it that my heart loses its way in this gladness?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ika narishi fushi ni ka ito no midareken shiite kuredomo tokezu miyuru wa
At what knot, at what turn of things, did the thread become so tangled, that however hard I try to wind it, it seems it will not come loose?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Mi naku tomo hito ni shirareji yo no naka ni shirarenu yama o shiru yoshi mogana
Even if my life should end, I would not have anyone know; if only there were some way to find a mountain unknown to all the world.
Gosen Wakashu - The Monk Gachō
Yo no naka ni shirarenu yama ni mi naku tomo tani no kokoro ya iwade omowamu
Even if you were to perish on some mountain unknown to the world, would the heart of the valley keep its thoughts to itself without a word?
Oto ni nomi kikite wa yamaji asaku tomo iza kumimiten yama no i no mizu
I will not be content with only hearing of it; however shallow it may be, come, let me scoop and taste the water of the mountain spring.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Shide no yama tadoru tadoru mo koenanade ukiyo no naka ni nani kaeriken
Groping your way up the mountain of death but never crossing it, why ever did you come back to this sorrowful world?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kazu naranu mi o mochi nite yoshinoyama takaki nageki o omoikorinuru
Though I am of no account, I felled the lofty trees of Mount Yoshino, piling up sorrows too high for one like me, and now I have had my fill of them.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Yoshinoyama koen koto koso katakarame koramu nageki no kazu wa shirinan
Crossing Mount Yoshino may indeed be hard, yet I can surely know how many logs of grief you will cut there.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet