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- Shui Wakashu
Wasurarete shibashi madoromu hodo mo gana itsuka wa kimi o yume narade min
If only I could forget for a while and doze off a little! When could I ever see you again, if not in a dream?
Shui Wakashu - Nakatsukasa
Uki nagara kiesenu mono wa mi narikeri urayamashiki wa mizu no awa kana
Though life is so wretched, the one thing that does not vanish is myself. What I envy is the foam upon the water.
Shui Wakashu - Nakatsukasa
Yo no naka o kaku iiii no hatehate wa ika ni ya ika ni naramu to suran
We go on saying such things about this world, but in the very end, what, oh what, will become of it all?
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Sasanami no Shiga no tekora ga makarinishi kawase no michi o mireba kanashi mo
When I see the path along the river shallows where the maiden of Shiga by the rippling waves departed this world, how sad it is.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Okitsu nami yoru araiso o shikitae no makura to makite nareru kimi kamo
You lie there with the rough shore, where the waves of the open sea break, for your pillow, as if on your own bed.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Asu shiranu waga mi to omoedo kurenu ma no kyō wa hito koso kanashikarikere
Though I know I may not live to see tomorrow, for today, while the sun has not yet set, it is for him that I grieve.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Yume to koso iubekarikere yo no naka wa utsutsu aru mono to omoikeru kana
This world should have been called a dream, and yet I had always thought it was something real.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Ie ni ikite waga ya o mireba tamazasa no hoka ni okikeru imo ga komakura
When I go home and look at my house, there, set apart outside the bamboo leaves, lies my wife's little pillow.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Makimuku no yamabe hibikite yuku mizu no minawa no goto ni yo o ba waga miru
Like the foam on the water that roars as it flows along the mountainside of Makimuku, so I see this world.
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Imoyama no iwane ni okeru ware o kamo shirazute imo ga machitsutsu aran
Not knowing that I lie here among the roots of the rocks on Mount Imo, is my wife still waiting and waiting for me?
Shui Wakashu - Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
Te ni musubu mizu ni yadoreru tsukikage no aru ka naki ka no yo ni koso arikere
Like moonlight dwelling in water cupped in my hands, there one moment and gone the next, such, I find, is this world.
Shui Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Kuretake no waga yo wa koto ni narinu tomo ne wa taesezu mo nakarubeki kana
Though my life, like a joint of bamboo, will come to be apart from yours, my weeping, like its roots, will never cease.
Shui Wakashu - Emperor Suzaku
Toribeyama tani ni keburi no moetataba hakanaku mieshi ware to shiranan
If smoke should rise burning in the valley of Mount Toribe, know that it is I, who always seemed so frail.
Shui Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Minahito no inochi o tsuyu ni tatouru wa kusamura goto ni okeba narikeri
The reason everyone likens human life to dew, I now see, is that, like dew, the dead are laid in every clump of grass.
Shui Wakashu - Sukekiyo
Kusamakura hito wa tare to ka iiokishi tsui no sumika wa noyama to zo miru
Whom did people mean when they spoke of a pillow of grass? I see that the final dwelling of us all is the fields and hills.
Shui Wakashu - Minamoto no Shitagō
Yo no naka o nani ni tatoemu asaborake kogiyuku fune no ato no shiranami
To what shall I compare this world? To the white waves in the wake of a boat rowing away in the faint light of dawn.
Shui Wakashu - The Novice Mansei