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- Senzai Wakashu
Miru yume no suginishi kata o sasoikite samuru makura mo mukashi nariseba
If the dream I see would draw the past back here with it, and the pillow I wake on were still as it was long ago...
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Munetaka
Hatsuseyama iriai no kane o kiku tabi ni mukashi no tōku naru zo kanashiki
Each time I hear the evening bell of Hatsuse Mountain, how sad it is that the days of old grow ever more distant.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ariie
Chiritsumoru koke no shita ni mo sakurabana oshimu kokoro ya nao nokoruran
Even beneath the moss where the petals lie heaped, O cherry blossoms, does the heart that grieved for you still remain?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Michichika
Ureshisa o kaesugaesu mo tsutsumubeki koke no tamoto no sebaku mo aru kana
I would wrap this joy up again and again, but how narrow are the sleeves of my mossy robe.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masakane
Ureshisa o yoso no sode made tsutsumu kana tachikaerinuru ama no hagoromo
Your joy wraps even my sleeves, far away as I am; such is the robe of heaven you wear, now that you have returned above the clouds.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Suetsune
Ashitazu no kumoji mayoishi toshi kurete kasumi o sae ya hedatehatsubeki
The year in which the crane lost its way on the cloud path has drawn to a close; will even the spring haze now shut it off for good?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Ashitazu wa kasumi o wakete kaeru nari mayoishi kumoji kyō ya haruran
The crane of the reeds, I hear, will part the haze and return; the cloud path where it lost its way will surely clear today.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sadanaga
Yo no naka wa uki mi ni soeru kage nare ya omoi sutsuredo hanarezarikeri
This world of ours, is it a shadow that clings to my wretched self? However I try to cast it from my mind, it never leaves me.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Koma namete iza mi ni yukan Tatsutagawa shiranami yosuru kishi no atari o
Let us ride side by side and go to see the banks of the Tatsuta River, where the white waves come breaking in.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Masashige
Nani to naku mono zo kanashiki akikaze no mi ni shimu yowa no tabi no nezame wa
For no reason at all, everything seems so sad when I wake in the dead of night on a journey, with the autumn wind piercing me through.
Senzai Wakashu - Ninjō
Yo no hodo ni karisomebito ya kitariken Yodo no mikomo no kesa midaretaru
Did some passing visitor come here in the night? This morning the wild rice by the waters of Yodo lies all in disarray.
Senzai Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu
Ato taete toubeki hito mo omooezu tare ka wa kesa no yuki o wakekon
All tracks have vanished, and I can think of no one who might come to call. Who would part the snow to come here this morning?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sadayori
Sakakiba wa momiji mo seji o kamigaki no karakurenai ni miewataru kana
The leaves of the sakaki never turn red in autumn, and yet the sacred fence of the shrine spreads before my eyes all in deep crimson.
Senzai Wakashu - Daini no Sanmi
Ike mo furi tsutsumi kuzurete mizu mo nashi mube Katsumata ni tori no izaran
The pond has grown old, its embankment has crumbled, and no water is left. No wonder there are no birds at Katsumata.
Senzai Wakashu - Nijō Taikōtaigōgū no Higo
Waga koma o shibashi to karu ka Yamashiro no Kohata no sato ni ari to kotaeyo
You would borrow my horse for a while? Then tell them it is kept at the village of Kohata in Yamashiro.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Mikurayama maki no ya tatete sumu tami wa toshi o tsumu tomo kuchiji to zo omou
Those who build their homes of maki wood on Mount Mikura and dwell there will never decay, I think, however many years they heap up.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori