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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Omoiyaru kokoro wa sora ni aru mono o nado ka kumoi ni aimizaruramu
My heart, longing for you, is up in the sky already; why then do we never meet among the clouds of the palace?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Hiroko
Harusame no furishiku koro ka aoyagi no itodo midarete hito zo koishiki
Is it because the spring rain falls so steadily? Like the threads of the green willow, my heart is tangled all the more, and I long for you.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Go-Suzaku
Aoyagi no ito midaretaru kono koro wa hitosuji ni shimo omoiyorareji
In these days when the green willow's threads are so tangled, your heart too is divided; surely you cannot think of me alone, along a single strand.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Seishi
Aoyagi no ito wa katagata nabiku tomo omoisometemu iro wa kawaraji
Though the green willow's threads may sway this way and that, and my heart may turn in many directions, the color with which I dyed my heart when I first loved you will never change.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Go-Suzaku
Asamidori fukaku mo aranu aoyagi wa iro kawaraji to ikaga tanomamu
The green willow is only pale green, its color not deep at all; how could I rely on it when it promises that its color will never change?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Seishi
Inishie no aoi to hito wa togamu tomo nao sono kami no kyō zo wasurenu
Though people may reproach me, calling it a withered hollyhock, a day of meeting long past, still I have never forgotten this very day of long ago, the day of the god.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sanekata
Karenikeru aoi nomi koso kanashikere aware to mizu ya kamo no mizugaki
All that grieves me is the withered hollyhock, our days of meeting now gone. O sacred fence of Kamo, do you not look upon this with pity?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Au koto o hatsuka ni mieshi tsukikage no oboroke ni ya wa aware to wa omou
I met you only briefly, as the moon of the twentieth night shows itself for a little while; could my love for you be something dim and ordinary? No, it runs far deeper.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Sarashina ya obasuteyama no ariake no tsukizu mo mono o omou koro kana
Like the moon lingering at dawn over Mount Obasute in Sarashina, these days my brooding thoughts of love never come to an end.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ise
Itsu totemo aware to omou o nenuru yo no tsuki wa oboroke nakunaku zo mishi
The moon always stirs my heart, yet on the night we lay together it was hazy with my tears, and with no ordinary feeling I watched it, weeping and weeping.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Nakatsukasa
Sarashina no yama yori hoka ni teru tsuki mo nagusamekanetsu kono koro no sora
Even the moon shining on hills other than Sarashina's could not console me; such is the sky in these days of love.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Ama no to o oshiakegata no tsuki mireba ukihito shimo zo koishikarikeru
When I see the moon at dawn, as though the door of heaven were being pushed open, it is, of all people, the one who is cold to me that I find myself longing for.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Honomieshi tsuki o koishi to kaerusa no kumoji no nami ni nurete koshi kana
Longing for the moon I glimpsed so faintly, I came home drenched by the waves along the path through the clouds.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Iru kata wa sayaka narikeru tsukikage o uwa no sora ni mo machishi yoi kana
Where the moonlight would set was plain to see, yet all that evening I waited for it, gazing absently at the sky above.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Murasaki Shikibu
Sashite yuku yama no ha mo mina kakikumori kokoro no sora ni kieshi tsukikage
The mountain ridge toward which I was heading was covered in cloud, and the moonlight vanished within the sky of my own heart.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ima wa tote wakareshi hodo no tsuki o dani namida ni kurete nagame ya wa seshi
"This is the end," we said as we parted; could I even look at the moon that night, blinded as I was by tears? No, I could not.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsunehira