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- Shui Wakashu
Ame no shita nogaruru hito no nakereba ya kiteshi nureginu hiru yoshi mo naki
Is it because no one under heaven, under the rain, can escape it, that the wet robe of false blame I wear has no way to dry?
Shui Wakashu - Sugawara no Michizane
Izuku to mo tokoro sadamenu shirakumo no kakaranu yama wa araji to zo omou
I think there is no mountain that the white cloud, which settles in no one place, does not cling to.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Shirakumo no kakaru soragoto suru hito o yama no fumoto ni yosetekeru kana
Like a white cloud hanging in the sky, one who speaks such empty words I have let draw near to the foot of my mountain.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Itsushika mo Tsukuma no matsuri hayasenan tsurenaki hito no nabe no kazu mimu
How I wish they would hold the Tsukuma festival soon, so I could count the pots worn by the one who is so cold to me.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hito shirenu hito machigao ni miyumeru wa ta ga tanometaru koyoi naruran
You look as though you are secretly waiting for someone. Who is it, I wonder, who has given you hope for tonight?
Shui Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneyori
Ikemizu no soko ni arade wa nenunawa no kuru hito mo nashi matsu hito mo nashi
Just as no one pulls up the water shield unless at the bottom of the pond, no one comes to me, who sleeps alone, and there is no one I am waiting for.
Shui Wakashu - Uneme of Asuka
Hito shirezu tanomeshi koto wa Kashiwagi no mori ya shinikemu yo ni furinikeri
The promise we made in secret, did it leak out through the woods of Kashiwagi? For now it has spread through all the world.
Shui Wakashu - Ukon
Akihagi no hana mo ueokanu yado nareba shika tachiyoramu tokoro dani nashi
My house has not even autumn bush clover planted in it, so there is no place at all for a deer, or for you, to stop by.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Koyurugi no isogite kitsuru kai mo naku mata koso tatere okitsu shiranami
Like the shore of Koyurugi, where I came hurrying, it was all for nothing, with no shells to find: once again the white waves of the open sea rise between us.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Shinobitsutsu yoru koso kishika karakoromo hitoya mimu to wa omowazarishi o
I came only by night, hiding as I went, wearing my fine Chinese robe; never did I think that I would be seen, or that I would see the inside of a jail.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Miya tsukuru Hida no takumi no teono oto hotohotoshikaru me o mo mishi kana
Like the hoto hoto of the adzes of the Hida carpenters building a palace, so hoto hoto, so very nearly, did I come to grief.
Shui Wakashu - Kunimochi
Ari tote mo ikuyo ka wa furu Karakuni no tora fusu nobe ni mi o mo nageten
Even if I go on living, how many ages could I last? I would rather throw myself down on a moor in China where the tigers lie.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Musubu te no shizuku ni nigoru yama no i no akade mo hito ni wakarenuru kana
Like a mountain spring clouded by the drops from cupped hands, so that one cannot drink one's fill, I have parted from her with my heart unsatisfied.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Ie nagara wakaruru toki wa yama no i no nigorishi yori mo wabishikarikeri
Parting from you here at my own house is more wretched, I find, than that time the mountain spring was clouded.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Hashitaka no togaeru yama no shiishiba no hagae wa su tomo kimi wa kaeseji
Though the oak thickets on the hill where the sparrow hawk molts its feathers may change their leaves, I will never change you for another.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ayamachi no aru ka naki ka o shiranu mi wa itou ni nitaru kokochi koso sure
Not knowing whether I have done something wrong or not, I can only feel that you are shunning me.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet