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- Senzai Wakashu
Tsukikage no tsune ni sumu naru yama no ha o hedatsuru kumo no nakaramashikaba
If only there were no clouds to screen the mountain rim where, they say, the moonlight always shines clear and the Buddha ever dwells, I could look up at that moon at any time.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kunifusa
Iru tsuki o miru to ya hito wa omouran kokoro o kakete nishi ni mukaeba
Do people think I am gazing at the setting moon? It is only that I face the west with all my heart set upon it.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshifusa
Takigi tsuki kemuri mo sumite sariniken kore ya nagori to miru zo kanashiki
The firewood spent and the smoke cleared from the sky, the Buddha must have departed this world. How sad it is to look upon these relics and think, is this all that remains?
Senzai Wakashu - Senzai
Yume samen sono akatsuki o matsu hodo no yami o mo terase nori no tomoshibi
O lamp of the Law, shine even into the darkness I must pass while I wait for the dawn when I shall wake from this dream.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Atsuie
Yo o terasu hotoke no shirushi arikereba mada tomoshibi mo kienu narikeri
Because the Buddha who lights the world shows his wondrous power here, the lamp too, I see, has never yet gone out.
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuchū
Miru mama ni namida zo otsuru kagiri naki inochi ni kawaru sugata to omoeba
The moment I see it, my tears begin to fall, for I think of it as the very form that took the place of a life beyond all price.
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuchū
Chitose made musubishi mizu mo tsuyu bakari waga mi no tame to omoi ya wa seshi
The water he scooped up with his hands for a thousand years, did he ever think, even by a dewdrop's worth, that it was for his own sake? Never.
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuga
Ureshiku zo na o tamotsu dani ada naranu minori no hana ni mi o musubikeru
How glad I am that I have bound myself, and borne fruit, upon the flower of the Law, where even holding fast to its name is never in vain.
Senzai Wakashu - Kaishu
Wabibito no kokoro no uchi o yoso nagara shiru ya satori no hikari naruran
That you know the hearts of those who live in sorrow, even from so far away, is it because yours is the light of enlightenment?
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Toshiyori
Chikai o ba chihiro no umi ni tatou nari tsuyu mo tanomaba kazu ni irinan
Kannon's vow is likened to a sea a thousand fathoms deep. Then if we trust in it even by a dewdrop's worth, surely we will be counted among the saved.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Sutoku
Hakanaku zo miyo no hotoke to omoikeru waga mi hitotsu ni ari to shirazute
How foolish I was to think of the buddhas of the three worlds as far away, not knowing that they dwell within this one self of mine.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Norinaga
Teru tsuki no kokoro no mizu ni suminureba yagate kono mi ni hikari o zo sasu
When the shining moon is mirrored clear in the water of the heart, its light falls at once upon this very body.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Norinaga
Kaerite mo iri zo wazurau maki no to o madoi idenishi kokoronarai ni
Even having come home, I hesitate to pass through the door of maki wood, from the habit of a heart that once wandered away.
Senzai Wakashu - Kakuchū
Furu yuki wa tani no toboso o uzumu tomo miyo no hotoke no hi ya terasuran
Even if the falling snow should bury the door of your hermitage in the valley, surely the sun of the buddhas of the three worlds is shining upon you.
Senzai Wakashu - Retired Emperor Sutoku
Terasu naru miyo no hotoke no asahi ni wa furu yuki yori mo tsumi ya kiyuran
In the morning sun of the buddhas of the three worlds that you say is shining, my sins will surely melt away even before the falling snow.
Senzai Wakashu - Prince Kakushō
Furusato o hitori wakaruru yūbe ni mo okuru wa tsuki no kage to koso kike
Even on that evening when I part alone from the home I have known, I hear it is the moonlight that will see me on my way.
Senzai Wakashu - Princess Shokushi