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- Senzai Wakashu
Saritomo to tanomi zo kakuru yūdasuki waga Kataoka no kami to omoeba
Surely, I think, and hang my hopes on him as one hangs a sacred sash across the shoulder, for I believe the god of Kataoka is on my side.
Senzai Wakashu - Kamo no Masahira
Saritomo to tanomu kokoro wa kamisabite hisashiku narinu Kamo no mizugaki
This heart that has trusted the gods, thinking even so, surely, has grown old and hallowed with the long years, like the sacred fence of the Kamo Shrine.
Senzai Wakashu - Princess Shokushi
Kimi o inoru negai o sora ni mitetamae Wakeikazuchi no kami naraba kami
Let this prayer I make for my lord fill the whole sky and be granted, O god of Wakeikazuchi, if you are truly a god.
Senzai Wakashu - Kamo no Shigeyasu
Kibunegawa tama chiru seze no iwanami ni kōri o kudaku aki no yo no tsuki
On the Kibune River, where the waves break on the rocks of every shallow and scatter like jewels, the moon of an autumn night seems to shatter ice.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Waga tanomu Hiyoshi no kage wa okuyama no shiba no to made mo sasazarame ya wa
The light of Hiyoshi, the god I trust, how could it fail to shine even on my brushwood door deep in the mountains? Surely it will.
Senzai Wakashu - Jien
Itsu to naku Washi no takane ni sumu tsuki no hikari o yadosu Shiga no Karasaki
The moon that dwells forever clear on the heights of Vulture Peak lets its light rest here on the waters at Karasaki in Shiga.
Senzai Wakashu - Shōken
Miyuki suru takane no kata ni kumo harete sora ni Hiyoshi no shirushi o zo miru
Toward the high peak where the royal progress is bound, the clouds have cleared, and in the sky the sun shines out as a sign of the Hiyoshi god's power.
Senzai Wakashu - Nakahara no Moronao
Fukaku irite Kamiji no oku o tazunureba mata ue mo naki mine no matsukaze
When I go deep into Mount Kamiji and seek its innermost reaches, there blows on the peak a pine wind beyond which there is nothing higher.
Senzai Wakashu - Saigyō
Tsukiyomi no kami shi terasaba adagumo no kakaru ukiyo mo harezarame ya wa
If the moon god Tsukiyomi shines upon it, how could this sorrowful world, overhung with idle clouds, fail to clear? Surely it will.
Senzai Wakashu - Ōnakatomi no Tamesada
Iwashimizu kiyoki nagare no taeseneba yadoru tsuki sae kuma nakarikeri
Since the pure stream of Iwashimizu never ceases to flow, even the moon mirrored in its water shines without a single shadow.
Senzai Wakashu - Nōren
Tokiwa naru Kannabiyama no sakakiba o sashite zo inoru yorozuyo no tame
Setting up leaves of sakaki from evergreen Mount Kannabi, I pray with all my heart for a reign of ten thousand ages.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitada
Ugoki naku chiyo o zo inoru Iwayayama toru sakakiba no iro kaezu shite
Firm and unshaken, I pray for a reign of a thousand ages, as the sakaki leaves I take up on Mount Iwaya never change their green.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tsunehira
Inishie no kami no miyo yori morogami no inoru iwai wa kimi ga yo no tame
Ever since the ancient age of the gods, all the blessings the many gods have prayed for have been for the sake of my lord's reign.
Senzai Wakashu - Oe no Masafusa
Kami ukuru toyo no akari ni Yūzono no hikagekazura zo haemasarikeru
At the Feast of Abundant Light, where the gods receive our offerings, the hikage cords from Yūzono shine all the more brightly.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Naganori
Suberagi o yaoyorozuyo no kami mo mina tokiwa ni mamoru yama no na zo kore
All the eight million gods guard our sovereign, unchanging for myriad ages: that is what the name of this mountain, Kamiyama, the Mountain of the Gods, declares.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Naganori
Mishime yū kata ni torikake Kannabi no yama no sakaki o kazashi ni zo suru
Hanging the sacred mulberry cloth of the shrine rope on our shoulders, we wear sakaki from Mount Kannabi as ornaments in our hair.
Senzai Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kanemitsu