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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Omokage no wasurumajiki wakare kana nagori o hito no tsuki ni todomete
It is a parting in which I shall never forget her face, for she left the lingering trace of our farewell upon the moon.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Mata mo kon aki o tanomu no kari dani mo nakite zo kaeru haru no akebono
Even the wild geese of the rice fields, which can trust that autumn will bring them back again, go home crying in the dawn of spring.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Tare yukite kimi ni tsugemashi michishiba no tsuyu morotomo ni kienamashikaba
Had I vanished away together with the dew on the roadside grass, who would have gone to tell you of it?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kamo no Narisuke
Kiekaeri aru ka naki ka no waga mi kana uramite kaeru michishiba no tsuyu
I have faded away until I hardly know whether I am here or not—like the dew on the roadside grass along the way I walk home in bitterness.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Asateru
Asaborake okitsuru shimo no kiekaeri kure matsu hodo no sode o misebaya
In the faint light of dawn, I rose and left you, fading away like the frost that settled there. How I wish I could show you my sleeves, soaked as I wait for evening to come.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Kazan
Niwa ni ouru yūkagegusa no shitatsuyu ya kure o matsu ma no namida naruran
Could the dew beneath the evening-glow grasses growing in my garden be the tears I shed while waiting for dusk to come?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Michitsune
Matsu yoi ni fukeyuku kane no koe kikeba akanu wakare no tori wa mono ka wa
On an evening spent waiting for you, when I hear the bell toll the deepening night, the cock's crow that ends a parting we cannot bear is nothing at all by comparison.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kojiju
Kore mo mata nagaki wakare ni nari ya sen kure o matsubeki inochi naraneba
Will this parting, too, become a parting forever? For my life will not last long enough to wait until dusk.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tomoie
Ariake wa omoide are ya yokogumo no tadayowaretsuru shinonome no sora
Is it because the hour of the dawn moon holds a memory? My heart was set adrift, like the banks of cloud trailing across the sky at daybreak.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Ōigawa iseki no mizu no wakuraba ni kyō wa tanomeshi kure ni ya wa aranu
Like the water that wells up now and then at the weir on the Ōi River, you promised me this day, only once in a while—is this not that very evening?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kiyohara no Motosuke
Yūgure ni inochi kaketaru kagerō no ari ya arazu ya tou mo hakanashi
I am like the mayfly that stakes its whole life on the coming of dusk—how fleeting it is for you to ask whether I am here or not.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ajikinaku tsuraki arashi no koe mo ushi nado yūgure ni machinaraiken
It is all in vain—even the harsh voice of the storm wind is hateful to me. Why have I come to make a habit of waiting at dusk?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Tanomezu wa hito wa matsuchi no yama nari to nenamashi mono o isayoi no tsuki
Had you not promised to come, I would have gone to sleep, even were this Matsuchi, the Mountain of Waiting. O moon of the sixteenth night, you who rise so hesitantly.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Go-Toba In
Nani yue to omoi mo irenu yūbe dani machiideshi mono o yama no ha no tsuki
Even on evenings when I gave no thought to why, I waited for you to rise—O moon at the mountain's rim.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Kiku ya ika ni uwa no sora naru kaze dani mo matsu ni oto suru narai ari to wa
Do you hear it, then? Even the fickle wind that roams the empty sky has the custom of calling with its voice upon the pine that waits.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kunaikyo
Hito wa kode kaze no keshiki mo fukenuru ni aware ni kari no otozurete yuku
The one I wait for does not come, and even the wind has taken on the mood of the deepening night—yet the wild geese, so movingly, call to me as they pass by.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō