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- Sankashu
Imasara ni nani ka wa hito mo togamu beki hajimete nururu tamoto naraneba
Why would anyone question me now? These are not sleeves that are wet with tears for the first time.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Warinashi na sode ni nageki no mitsu mama ni inochi o nomi mo itou kokoro wa
How hopeless it is: as my sleeves fill with tears of grief, my heart comes to loathe nothing but my own life.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Iro fukaki namida no kawa no minakami wa hito o wasurenu kokoro narikeri
The source of this river of tears, so deep in its crimson, is a heart that cannot forget her.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Machikanete hitori wa fusedo shikitae no makura naraburu aramashi zo suru
Unable to wait any longer, I lie down alone, yet I keep imagining our pillows lying side by side.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Toe kashi na nasake wa hito no mi no tame o uki ware tote mo kokoro ya wa naki
Please come and visit me! Kindness benefits the one who gives it, after all. Even I, wretched as I am, surely have a heart.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kotonoha no shimogarenishi ni omoiniki koto no nasake mo kakaramashi to wa
When your words withered like leaves touched by frost, I already knew that every kindness would come to this.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Yomosugara urami o sode ni tatōreba makura ni nami no oto zo kikoyuru
All night long my sleeves brim with tears of resentment, until I hear the sound of waves upon my pillow.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Nagaraete hito no makoto o miru beki ni koi ni inochi no taen mono ka wa
I ought to live on and see whether her heart is true—how then could I let my life end for love?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Tanome okishi sono iigoto ya ada narishi nami koenu beki sue no matsuyama
Were the words you gave me to trust in only empty? It seems the waves are about to cross even Sue no Matsuyama.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Kawa no se ni yo ni kieyasuki utakata no inochi o nazo ya kimi ga tanomuru
My life is like the foam on the river shallows, so quick to vanish—why do you make me pin my hopes on it?
Sankashu - Saigyō
Karisome ni oku tsuyu to koso omoishika aki ni ainuru waga tamoto kana
I had thought it only passing dew that settled for a moment, but my sleeves have met with autumn, and with your weariness of me.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Onozukara arieba to koso omoitsure tanomi naku naru waga inochi kana
I had thought that if I only lived on, things would come right of themselves—yet this life of mine is growing too frail to rely on.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Mi o mo itoi hito no tsurasa mo nagekarete omoi kazu aru koro ni mo aru kana
Loathing myself and grieving at her coldness, how many are the sorrows that fill these days of mine.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Suga no ne no nagaku mono o ba omowaji to tamukeshi kami ni inorishi mono o
I prayed, making offerings to the gods, that I would not brood long over love—and yet.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Uchitokete madoromaba ya wa karakoromo yona yona kaesu kai mo aru beki
If only I could relax and doze off, then turning my fine robe inside out each night, to dream of you, might be worth something.
Sankashu - Saigyō
Waga tsuraki koto ni o nasan onozukara hitome o omou kokoro ari ya to
I will count it as my own fault, this pain I feel; perhaps, after all, she has a heart that minds what others see.
Sankashu - Saigyō