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- Senzai Wakashu
Hito goto ni kawaru wa yume no madoi nite samureba onaji kokoro narikeri
That hearts seem to differ from one person to the next is only the delusion of a dream; once we wake, they are all one and the same heart.
Senzai Wakashu - Kujō Kanezane
Sumeba miyu nigoreba kakuru sadame naki kono mi ya mizu ni yadoru tsukikage
Seen when the water is clear and hidden when it clouds, is this uncertain body of mine the moon's reflection dwelling in the water?
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Naganori
Itodoshiku mukashi no ato ya taenan to omou mo kanashi kesa no shirayuki
How sad it is to think that the traces of the holy ones of old may now vanish all the more, under this morning's white snow.
Senzai Wakashu - Jien
Kimi ga na zo nao arawaren furu yuki ni mukashi no ato wa uzumorenu tomo
It is your name that will shine forth all the more, even if the traces of old are buried under the falling snow.
Senzai Wakashu - Son'en
Hitori nomi kurushiki umi o wataru to ya soko o satoranu hito wa miruran
Do those who cannot fathom the depths see me as crossing this sea of suffering for my own sake alone?
Senzai Wakashu - Kujō Yoshitsune
Kuretake no munashi to tokeru koto no ha wa miyo no hotoke no haha to koso kike
The words that teach that all is empty, hollow as the black bamboo, are, I hear, the mother of the buddhas of the three worlds.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Takanobu
Munashiki mo iro naru mono to satore to ya haru no misora no midori naruran
Is it to teach us that emptiness too is form that the spring sky is tinged with green?
Senzai Wakashu - Gishumon-in no Tango
Nagaki yo mo munashiki mono to shirinureba hayaku akenuru kokochi koso sure
Once I have come to know that even the long night is empty, it feels as though dawn has broken already.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Moronaka
Washi no yama tsuki o irinu to miru hito wa kuraki ni mayou kokoro narikeri
Those who look at Vulture Peak and think the moon has set, I see now, are hearts that wander lost in the dark.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigyō
Isagiyoki ike ni kage koso ukabinure shizumi ya sen to omou waga mi o
In this pure pond my reflection has come floating up, though I had feared that this self of mine would sink.
Senzai Wakashu - Minamoto no Akinaka
Kuchihatsuru sode ni wa ikaga tsutsumamashi munashi to tokeru minori narazu wa
How could I hold back my tears in sleeves rotted through with weeping, were it not for the Law that teaches all is empty?
Senzai Wakashu - Jakuchō
Miru hodo wa yume mo yume to mo shirareneba utsutsu mo ima wa utsutsu to omowaji
While we are dreaming we cannot tell a dream is a dream, so from now on I will not think of the waking world as real either.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Suketaka
Odorokanu waga kokoro koso ukarikere hakanaki yo o ba yume to minagara
How wretched is this heart of mine that will not wake, though it sees this fleeting world for the dream it is.
Senzai Wakashu - Tōren
Akatsuki o Takano no yama ni matsu hodo ya koke no shita ni mo ariake no tsuki
Is it while he waits on Mount Kōya for the dawn to come? Even beneath the moss, there is the moon that lingers into morning.
Senzai Wakashu - Jakuren
Omoitoku kokoro hitotsu ni narinureba kōri mo mizu mo hedatezarikeri
Once the heart has understood and melted into one, there is no wall between ice and water after all.
Senzai Wakashu - Chūjō of Princess Shokushi's household
Tanomoshiki chikai wa haru ni aranedomo karenishi eda mo hana zo sakikeru
Kannon's trustworthy vow is not the spring, and yet even on a branch long withered, flowers have come into bloom.
Senzai Wakashu - Taira no Tokitada