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- Sankashu
Yamabuki no hana saku ide no sato koso wa yashuitari to omowazaranan
Please do not think of Ide village, where the kerria blooms, as something merely gleaned and left over.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hima mo naku furikuru ame no ashi yori mo kazu kagiri naki kimi ga miyo kana
More countless than the streaks of rain that fall without a pause is the reign of our lord, without limit.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Chiyo fu beki mono o sanagara atsumu tomo kimi ga yowai o shiran mono ka wa
Even if one gathered every last thing destined to live a thousand years, how could one ever measure the span of our lord's life?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Koke uzumu yuruganu iwa no fukaki ne wa kimi ga chitose o katametaru beshi
The deep roots of the moss-buried, unshakable rock must surely be what holds firm our lord's thousand years.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Muretachite kumoi ni tazu no koe su nari kimi ga chitose ya sora ni miyuran
I hear the cry of cranes rising in a flock high among the clouds. Could it be that our lord's thousand years are appearing in the sky?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Sawabe yori sudachi hajimuru tsuru no ko wa matsu no eda ni ya utsurisomuran
The young cranes now beginning to fledge from their nests by the marsh—will they now for the first time move into the branches of the pine?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Ōumi no shio hite yama ni naru made ni kimi wa kawaranu kimi ni mashimase
Until the tides of the great sea dry up and turn into mountains, may our lord remain ever our lord, unchanged.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kimi ga yo no tameshi ni nani o omowamashi kawaranu matsu no iro nakariseba
Were there not the unchanging green of the pine, what else could I think of as a sign of our lord's enduring reign?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kimi ga yo wa amatsu sora naru hoshi nare ya kazu mo shirarenu kokochi nomi shite
Is our lord's reign like the stars in the heavens? It only feels as though their number could never be known.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Hikari sasu mikasa no yama no asahi koso ge ni yorozuyo no tameshi narikere
The morning sun shining over Mount Mikasa—it is truly the emblem of a reign lasting ten thousand ages.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yorozuyo no tameshi ni hikan kameyama no susono no hara ni shigeru komatsu o
As an emblem of a reign of ten thousand ages, I will pull up the young pines that grow so thick on the plain at the foot of Mount Kameyama.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kazu kakuru nami ni shizue no iro somete kamisabi masaru sumiyoshi no matsu
Its lower branches dyed by countless breaking waves, the pine of Sumiyoshi grows ever more divine.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Wakaba sasu hirano no matsu wa sara ni mata eda ni yachiyo no kazu o souran
The pines of Hirano, putting forth fresh leaves, will surely add yet again eight thousand ages to every branch.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Take no iro mo kimi ga midori ni somerarete ikuyo to mo naku hisashikaru beshi
Even the color of the bamboo, dyed in the evergreen of our lord, will surely last for countless ages.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Chiyo fu beki futaba no matsu no oisaki o miru hito ika ni ureshikaruran
How happy must be the one who watches over the future of a two-leaved pine that will live a thousand years.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kimi ga tame goyō no nenohi shitsuru kana tabitabi chiyo o fu beki shirushi ni
For your sake I have celebrated the Day of the Rat with young five-needled pines, as a token that you shall live a thousand years over and over again.
Sankashu - Saigyō