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- Senzai Wakashu
Haru goto ni nagekishi mono o nori no niwa wa chiru ga ureshiki hana mo arikeri
Every spring I have grieved to see the blossoms fall, yet in the garden of the Law there are flowers whose falling brings joy.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Koretsuna
Mikusa nomi shigeki nigori to mishikadomo sate mo tsuki sumu e ni koso arikere
I had taken it for murky water overgrown with weeds, yet it was an inlet where the moon shines clear, a place bound by ties to the Buddha after all.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sueyoshi
Musashino no Horikane no i mo aru mono o ureshiku mizu no chikazukinikeru
Though on Musashi Moor there is the Horikane well, so deep one can scarcely dig to water, how glad I am that the water has drawn near.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Tanimizu o musubeba utsuru kage nomi ya chitose o okuru tomo to nariken
Was it only the reflection that appeared as he scooped up the valley water that kept him company through a thousand years?
Senzai Wakashu - Kenshō
Kuchihatete ayauku mieshi Obatada no Itada no hashi mo ima watasu nari
Even the Itada bridge at Obatada, which looked so rotted and unsafe, is now being laid across again.
Senzai Wakashu - Taikaku
Uramikeru keshiki ya sora ni mietsuran Obasuteyama o terasu tsukikage
Could their look of resentment have shown in the sky above? See the moonlight shining down on Mount Obasute.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Atsunaka
Hi no hikari tsuki no kage to zo terashikeru kuraki kokoro no yami hare yo tote
As the light of the sun and as the light of the moon, the Law has shone upon us, so that the darkness of our clouded hearts might clear.
Senzai Wakashu - Renjō
Sara ni mata hana zo furishiku Washi no yama nori no mushiro no kuregata no sora
Once more the flowers come raining down on Vulture Peak, in the evening sky as the assembly of the Law draws to its close.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Machiidete ika ni ureshiku omooen hatsuka amari no yama no ha no tsuki
How glad one must feel to have waited and seen it rise at last, the moon over the mountain rim on the night after the twentieth.
Senzai Wakashu - Nakahara no Ariyasu
Asa madaki minori no niwa ni furu yuki wa sora yori hana no chiru ka to zo miru
The snow falling in the early morning on the garden of the Law looks to me like flowers scattering down from the sky.
Senzai Wakashu - Nakahara no Kiyoshige
Mochizuki no kumogakureken inishie no aware o kyō no sora ni shiru kana
The sorrow of that day long ago when the full moon, they say, hid itself behind the clouds, I come to know in today's sky.
Senzai Wakashu - Eshō
Kiyoku sumu kokoro no soko o kagami nite yagate zo utsuru iro mo sugata mo
With the depths of a pure, clear heart for a mirror, everything is reflected there just as it is, color and form alike.
Senzai Wakashu - Shunshū
Kemuri dani shibashi tanabike Toribeyama tachiwakarenishi katami to mo min
Let at least the smoke linger a while over Toribe Hill, so I may look on it as a keepsake of the one who has parted from us.
Senzai Wakashu - Jakuzen
Tori no ne mo nami no oto ni zo kayou naru onaji minori o tokeba narikeri
The songs of the birds, they say, are one with the sound of the waves; it is because both preach the very same Law.
Senzai Wakashu - Taira no Yasuyori
Yo o sukuu ato wa mukashi ni kawaranedo hajime tateken toki o shi zo omou
The traces of one who saved the world are unchanged from long ago, yet it is the time when he first raised this temple that I find myself thinking of.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sadanaga
Tsune naranu tameshi wa yowa no kemuri nite kienu nagori o miru zo ureshiki
The proof that nothing lasts was the smoke of that midnight pyre, yet how glad I am to see what remains and has not vanished.
Senzai Wakashu - Meiun