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- Senzai Wakashu
Fuetake no ana asamashi no yo no naka ya arishi ya fushi no kagiri naruran
Ah, how wretched this bond between us has become! Was the time we once lay together the last we shall ever share?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Shitaikuru koi no yakko no tabi nite mo mi no kuse nare ya yū todoroki wa
Love, like a faithful servant, follows after me even on my journey. Is it a habit grown into my body, this pounding of the heart at dusk?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Au koto no nageki no tsumoru kurushisa o oe kashi hito no korihatsuru made
Let that one carry on his back the pain of my sorrows, heaped up like firewood because we never meet, until he has had more than enough of it.
Senzai Wakashu - Taikenmon-in no Horikawa
Hito no ashi o tsumu nite shirinu waga kata e fumi okoseyo to omou narubeshi
Catching someone's foot between my fingers, I understood: she must be thinking, "Step my way, send me a letter."
Senzai Wakashu - Ryōki
Osoroshi ya Kiso no kakeji no marukibashi fumi miru tabi ni ochinubeki kana
How frightening! Each time I step onto the log bridge on the cliff road of Kiso, each time I read your letters, I feel sure that I am about to fall.
Senzai Wakashu - Kūnin
Fuetake no kochiku to nani ni omoiken tonari ni oto wa seshi ni zo arikeru
Like the flute bamboo called kochiku, I thought you were coming this way, but why did I think so? It was next door, after all, that your music sounded and your visits went.
Senzai Wakashu - Shinkaku
Yatsuhashi no watari ni kyō mo tomaru kana koko ni sumubeki mi ka wa to omoedo
Here again today I stop for the night near Yatsuhashi, though I hardly think I am one meant to settle here.
Senzai Wakashu - Dōin
Tsurashi tote sate wa yomo ware yamagarasu kashira wa shiroku naru yo nari tomo
Because you are cold, shall I give you up? Never, not even if the world should come to a day when the mountain crow's head turns white.
Senzai Wakashu - Anshō
Kami ni okeru moji wa makoto no moji nareba uta mo yomiji o tasukezarame ya
The letters placed at the head of each poem are the letters of the Buddha's true word; how could these poems fail to help me along the road of verse and the road to the land of the dead?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Kyō mo mata uma no kai koso fukitsunare hitsuji no ayumi chikazukinuran
Today once again, it seems, they have blown the conch for the Hour of the Horse. The Hour of the Sheep, like the steps of a sheep led to slaughter, must now be drawing near.
Senzai Wakashu - Akazome Emon
Gokuraku wa harukeki hodo to kikishikado tsutomete itaru tokoro narikeri
I had heard that paradise lay far, far away, yet it turns out to be a place one can reach by devotion, even by early morning.
Senzai Wakashu - Kūya
Koko ni kie kashiko ni musubu mizu no awa no ukiyo ni meguru mi ni koso arikere
Vanishing here and forming again over there, like froth upon the water, I am one who keeps wandering round and round this sorrowful, floating world.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintō
Sadame naki mi wa ukigumo ni yosoetsutsu hate wa sore ni zo narihatenubeki
I have always likened this uncertain body of mine to a drifting cloud, and in the end, surely, I will become that very cloud.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintō
Yo no naka wa mina hotoke nari oshinabete izure no mono to waku zo hakanaki
Everything in this world is the Buddha. To sort them all into this one and that one is an empty thing to do.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Kazan
Ōzora no ame wa wakite mo sosoganedo uruou kusaki wa ono ga shinajina
The rain from the great sky does not pick and choose where it falls, yet the grasses and trees it moistens each grow in their own different ways.
Senzai Wakashu - Genshin
Motomete mo kakaru hachisu no tsuyu o okite ukiyo ni mata wa kaeru mono ka wa
Would I set aside such dew on the lotus, a thing worth seeking out, and go back again to this sorrowful world? I would not.
Senzai Wakashu - Sei Shōnagon