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- Shui Wakashu
Kakitsukuru kokoro mie naru ato naredo mite mo shinobamu hito ya aru tote
Though it is writing through which my clumsy heart shows plain, I set it down thinking someone might look at it and remember me.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Iwahashi no yoru no chigiri mo taenubeshi akuru wabishiki Katsuragi no kami
Like the stone bridge the god of Katsuragi worked on only by night, our pledge of the night will surely break off; for I am like that god, who found the coming of dawn so wretched.
Shui Wakashu - Kodai no Kimi
Utagawashi hoka ni wataseru fumi mireba ware ya todae ni naran to suran
How suspicious! Seeing the letter you meant to pass to another, I wonder if it is I whose bridge of visits is about to break off.
Shui Wakashu - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Ikadeka wa tazunekitsuran yomogiu no hito mo kayowanu waga yado no michi
How could you have found your way here, along the path to my house, overgrown with mugwort, where no one ever comes?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ame narade moru hito mo naki waga yado o asajigahara to miru zo kanashiki
My house, where nothing but the rain leaks in and no one stands guard, I see become a field of tangled reeds, and how sad it is.
Shui Wakashu - Consort of the Shōkyōden
Inishie wa ta ga furusato zo obotsukana yado moru ame ni toite shirabaya
Whose old home was this in days gone by? I cannot tell; I would like to ask the rain that leaks into this house, that has kept it all along, and learn.
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Asateru
Yume to nomi omoinarinishi yo no naka o nani imasara ni odorokasuran
Our bond, which I had come to think of as nothing but a dream, why should you now, after all this time, try to wake it again?
Shui Wakashu - Takashina no Takako (Mother of Gidō Sanshi)
Hito mo minu tokoro ni mukashi kimi to waga senu wazawaza o seshi zo koishiki
How I miss the things you and I once did, things we would never do, in a place where no one could see.
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Kintada
Kyō made wa Iki no matsubara ikitaredo waga mi no usa ni nagekite zo furu
Until today, like the name of the Pines of Iki, I have lived on, yet in the sorrow of my lot I pass my days in grief.
Shui Wakashu - Daughter of Fujiwara no Nochio
Ikitaru ka shinuru ka ikani omōezu mi yori hoka naru tamakushige kana
Whether you are living or have died, I cannot tell; here is this jeweled box, parted from your body and left behind.
Shui Wakashu - Daughter of Lord Noritada
Otomego ga sode furu yama no mizugaki no hisashiki yo yori omoisometeki
Like the sacred fence of the shrine on Furu Mountain, where maidens wave their sleeves, so old is the age since which I began to love you.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Inariyama yashiro no kazu o hito towaba tsurenaki hito o mitsu to kotaemu
If anyone asks how many shrines stand on Inari Hill, I will answer "three": I saw the one who is so cold to me.
Shui Wakashu - Taira no Sadafun
Mishimae no Tamae no ashi o shimeshi yori ono ga to zo omou imada karanedo
Ever since I staked my claim to the reeds of Tamae Inlet on Mishima Bay, I have thought of them as mine, though I have not yet cut them.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Ada nari to ada ni wa ikaga sadamuran hito no kokoro o hito wa shiru ya wa
Why do you so lightly decide that I am fickle? Can anyone ever know what is in another's heart?
Shui Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Suguroku no ichiba ni tateru hitozuma no awade yaminan mono ni ya wa aranu
Like another man's wife standing in the marketplace of the sugoroku board, is she not one with whom it must all end without our ever meeting?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Nureginu o ikaga kizaran yo no hito wa ame no shita ni shi suman kagiri wa
How could anyone avoid wearing a wet robe of false blame, so long as the people of this world live under heaven, under the falling rain?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet