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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Ikaga fuku mi ni shimu iro no kawaru kana tanomuru kure no matsukaze no koe
How is it blowing now? The color of the wind that pierces me seems changed—the voice of the wind in the pines, heard as I wait at the dusk you promised me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Hachijoin no Takakura
Tanome oku hito mo nagara no yama ni dani sayo fukenureba matsukaze no koe
Even on Mount Nagara, whose very name says no one is there to make a promise, when the night grows late there comes the voice of the wind in the pines.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kamo no Chomei
Ima kon to tanomeshi koto o wasurezu wa kono yūgure no tsuki ya matsuran
If you have not forgotten your promise, "I will come soon," are you waiting now for the moon to rise this evening?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Hideyoshi
Kimi matsu to neya e mo iranu maki no to ni itaku na fukeso yama no ha no tsuki
Waiting for you, I do not go into my bedchamber but stay by the cedar door—O moon at the mountain's rim, do not climb so late into the night.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Shokushi
Tanomenu ni kimi ku ya to matsu yoi no ma no fukeyukade tada akenamashikaba
Though you never promised, I wait in the early evening, wondering whether you will come—if only the night, without growing late, had simply turned to dawn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Kaerusa no mono to ya hito no nagamuran matsu yo nagara no ariake no tsuki
Does he gaze upon it as something to see on his way home from another—this dawn moon that has stayed through my whole night of waiting?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Kimi kon to iishi yogoto ni suginureba tanomanu mono no koitsutsu zo furu
Every night you said, "I will come," has passed without you; so though I no longer rely on your word, I go on loving you as the days go by.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Koromode ni yamaoroshi fukite samuki yo o kimi kimasazu wa hitori ka mo nen
On this cold night, when the wind sweeps down from the mountains onto my sleeves, if you do not come, must I sleep alone?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Au koto wa kore ya kagiri no tabi naran kusa no makura mo shimogarenikeri
Will this journey be the last time we meet? Even the pillow of grasses we bound has withered in the frost.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Uma no Naishi
Nareyuku wa ukiyo nareba ya suma no ama no shioyakigoromo madō naruran
Is it because this sad world is such that familiarity breeds weariness? Like the robes of the salt-burning fisherfolk of Suma, worn thin and coarse, your visits have grown far apart.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Kishi
Kiri fukaki aki no nonaka no wasuremizu taemagachi naru koro ni mo aru kana
Like the forgotten stream that flows, broken and fitful, through the autumn fields in the deep mist, these are days when our meetings are so often broken off.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Sakanoue no Koreyuki
Yo no tsune no akikaze naraba ogi no ha ni soyo to bakari no oto wa shitemashi
If you were only the ordinary autumn wind, you would at least make a faint rustle in the leaves of the reeds.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Daughter of the Monk Anpō
Ashihiki no yama no kagegusa musubi okite koi ya wataran au yoshi o nami
I bound the grasses in the shade of the mountains as a pledge—must I go on loving you, when there is no way for us to meet?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Otomo no Yakamochi
Azumaji ni karu chō kaya no midaretsutsu tsuka no ma mo naku koi ya wataran
Like the thatch grass they say is cut along the Eastern Road, lying tangled and in disarray, must I go on loving you without a moment's pause?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Daigo
Musubi okishi tamoto dani minu hanasusuki karu tomo kareji kimi shi tokazu wa
I cannot now see even the sleeve on which we tied our pledge; yet like the plumed pampas grass that does not wither even when cut, our bond will not fade, so long as you do not untie it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Atsutada
Shimo no ue ni kesa furu yuki no samukereba kasanete hito o tsurashi to zo omou
The snow that falls this morning upon the frost is so cold that, layer upon layer, I think again how heartless you are.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Shigeyuki