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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Tanome okan tada sa bakari o chigiri nite ukiyo no naka no yume ni nashiteyo
I will give you that promise. With that alone as our pledge, let everything in this sorrowful world become only a dream.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Bifukumon'in no Kaga
Yoiyoi ni kimi o aware to omoitsutsu hito ni wa iwade ne o nomi zo naku
Night after night I think of you with tender longing, yet I tell no one, and can only weep aloud.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneyori
Kimi dani mo omoiidekeru yoiyoi o matsu wa ikanaru kokochi ka wa suru
If even you remembered me on those nights, one after another, what do you suppose it feels like for me, who spends them all in waiting?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Koishisa ni shinuru inochi o omoiidete tou hito araba nashi to kotae yo
If someone remembers this life of mine, worn out by longing for you, and comes asking after me, tell them I am no longer in this world.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Wakarete wa kinō kyō koso hedatetsure chiyo o hetaru kokochi nomi suru
Since we parted, only yesterday and today have come between us, yet all I feel is that a thousand years have passed.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Koretada
Kinō tomo kyō tomo shirazu ima wa tote wakareshi hodo no kokoromadoi ni
I could not tell whether it was yesterday or today, so troubled was my heart since the moment we parted, when you said this was the end.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Keishi
Taenuru ka kage dani mieba tou beki ni katami no mizu wa mikusa inikeri
Has it ended between us? If even your reflection would appear, I would ask you, but the water you left behind as a keepsake has grown over with weeds.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Katagata ni hikiwakaretsutsu ayamegusa aranu ne o ya wa kakemu to omoishi
Pulled apart, each of us in a different place, did I ever think that instead of iris roots I would be hanging out the unexpected sound of my own weeping?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Teishi (Yōmeimon'in)
Koto no ha no utsurou dani mo aru mono o itodo shigure no furimasaruramu
It is hard enough that your words fade and change like autumn leaves; why must the cold rain of late autumn fall ever harder?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ise
Fuku kaze ni tsukete mo towamu sasagani no kayoishi michi wa sora ni tayu tomo
I will send word to you even on the blowing wind, though the path you once traveled to me, like a spider's thread, should break off in midair.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Mother of Fujiwara no Michitsuna
Kuzu no ha ni aranu wagami mo akikaze no fuku ni tsuketsutsu uramitsuru kana
Though I am no arrowroot leaf, each time the autumn wind blows I too turn and show my underside, reproaching you.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Shimo sayagu nobe no kusaba ni aranedomo nado ka hitome no karemasaruramu
You are not the grass of the moor rustling with frost, so why do your visits wither away from me more and more?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Daigo
Asaji ouru nobe ya karuramu yamagatsu no kakiho no kusa wa iro mo kawarazu
Surely it is the moor overgrown with cogon grass that withers and draws away; the grass by this humble mountain dweller's fence has not changed its color at all.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kasumuramu hodo o mo shirazu shiguretsutsu suginishi aki no momiji o zo miru
Unaware that it must already be the hazy season of spring, weeping like the autumn rain, I gaze still upon the colored leaves of an autumn long gone.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Kishi
Ima komu to tanometsutsu furu koto no ha zo tokiwa ni miyuru momiji narikeru
"I will come soon," you promised, keeping me in hope while the months went by; those words of yours, grown old yet unchanged, are the autumn leaves that stay forever green.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Tamaboko no michi wa haruka ni aranedomo utate kumoi ni madou koro kana
The road to you is not so very long, yet these days, wretchedly, I wander lost as if among the clouds above the palace.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Suzaku