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- Shui Wakashu
Yo no naka ni kotonaru koto wa arazu tomo tomi wa hatashitemu inochi nagaku wa
Though nothing out of the ordinary may come about in this world, if only life is long, wealth will surely be won.
Shui Wakashu - Kiyohara no Motosuke
Hikiyoseba tada ni wa yorade harugoma no tsunahiki suru zo na wa tatsu to kiku
When I draw her close, she will not simply come, but like a spring colt pulls against the rope; and then, I hear, the rope will snap, and a name will rise.
Shui Wakashu - Taira no Sadafun
Hana no ki wa magaki chikaku wa uete miji utsurou iro ni hito naraikeri
I will not plant flowering trees close by my fence to look at, for that person's heart has learned from their fading colors.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Natsu wa ōgi fuyu wa hioke ni mi o nashite tsurenaki hito ni yori mo tsukabaya
In summer a fan, in winter a brazier: I would turn myself into these and draw close to that cold-hearted one.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Koi suru ni hotoke ni naru to iwamaseba ware zo jōdo no aruji naramashi
If it were said that one becomes a Buddha by loving, I would surely have been the master of the Pure Land.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Karakoromo tatsu yori otsuru mizu narade waga sode nurasu mono ya nani naru
It is not the water falling from the dragon at the Buddha's bathing, so what is it, I wonder, that wets my sleeves?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tsurakaraba hito ni kataramu shikitae no makura kawashite hitoyo neniki to
If you treat me coldly, I will tell people that we exchanged pillows and slept together for a night.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
Ayashiku mo waga nureginu o kitaru kana Mikasa no yama o hito ni kararete
How strange it is that I should wear a soaking robe of false blame, all because someone borrowed Mount Mikasa, my name as Lesser Captain of the Guards.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitaka
Kakuremino kakuregasa o mo eteshi kana kitari to hito ni shirarezarubeku
I wish I could get a cloak of invisibility and a hat of invisibility, so that, wearing them, no one would know I had come to you.
Shui Wakashu - Taira no Kinzane
Kokoro arite tou ni wa arazu yo no naka ni ari ya nashi ya no kikamahoshiki zo
It is not out of any feeling that I ask; I only wish to hear whether he is still in this world or not.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kimi towade ikuyo henuran iro kaenu take no furune no oikawaru made
How many years have passed without your visits, until from the old roots of the never-changing bamboo new shoots have grown?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Konu hito o shita ni machitsutsu hisakata no tsuki o aware to iwanu yo zo naki
Secretly waiting in my heart for one who does not come, there is no night when I do not call the moon in the far heavens lovely.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Azusayumi hikimi hikazumi kozu wa kozu koba ko so o nazo yoso ni koso mime
Like a catalpa bow now drawn, now left undrawn: if you won't come, don't come, if you'll come, then come; why are you neither? Then I will watch you as one apart.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Kureba toku yukite kataramu au toki no Tōchi no sato no sumiukarishi mo
When evening falls, I will go to you at once and tell you how hard it was to stay in the village of Tōchi, where the time of meeting you lay so far away.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Koretada
Oroka ni mo omowamashikaba Azumaji no Fuseya to iishi nobe ni nenamashi
Had I thought of you only lightly, I would have stopped and slept on the moor called Fuseya along the Eastern Road.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ato mo naki Katsuragiyama o fumimireba waga watashikoshi katahashi kamoshi
Treading Mount Katsuragi, where no trace remains, I look at the letter: is this the broken half of the bridge I have kept laying, the torn end of what I sent?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet