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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Utoku naru hito o nani tote uramuramu shirarezu shiranu ori mo arishi ni
Why do I resent the one who is drifting away from me? There was once a time when we neither knew nor were known by each other.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Ima zo shiru omoiide yo to chigirishi wa wasuremu tote no nasake narikeri
Now at last I understand: when you made me promise, "Remember me," it was the kindness of someone who already meant to forget.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Aimishi wa mukashigatari no utsutsu nite sono kanegoto o yume ni nase to ya
Our meeting was real, though it has become a tale of long ago; must I now turn the promises we made then into a dream?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michichika
Aware naru kokoro no yami no yukari tomo mishi yo no yume o tare ka sadamemu
Who could decide that the dream of the night we met was only born of the darkness of a pitiful heart lost in love?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintsune
Chigiriki ya akanu wakare ni tsuyu okishi akatsuki bakari katami nare to wa
Did we ever promise that the one dawn of our reluctant parting, when the dew of tears lay on us, would be our only keepsake?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michitomo
Uramiwabi mataji ima wa no mi naredomo omoinarenishi yūgure no sora
Worn out with resentment, I am one who has resolved, "I will wait no more," and yet how accustomed my heart has grown to longing beneath the evening sky.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Wasureji no koto no ha ika ni narinikemu tanomeshi kure wa akikaze zo fuku
What has become of your words, "I will never forget"? On the evening you promised to come, only the autumn wind blows.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Gishumon-in no Tango
Omoikane uchinuru yoi mo arinamashi fuki dani susabe niwa no matsukaze
Even in the ache of longing, there might have been evenings when I dozed off; at least let your blowing ease, wind in the garden pines.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Sarade dani uramimu to omou wagimoko ga koromo no suso ni akikaze zo fuku
Even without this, my beloved must be minded to reproach me, and now the autumn wind blows upon the hem of her robe, turning it to show its lining.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ariie
Kokoro ni wa itsumo aki naru nezame kana mi ni shimu kaze no ikuyo tomo naku
In my heart it is always autumn, the season of being tired of, as I wake in the night, with a wind that pierces my body for more nights than I can count.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Aware tote tou hito no nado nakaruramu mono omou yado no ogi no uwakaze
Why is there no one who comes to call on me out of pity? To this house where I brood over love, only the wind comes, blowing over the reed leaves.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Saigyō
Waga koi wa ima o kagiri to yūmagure ogi fuku kaze no otozurete yuku
As if to say that my love has now come to its end, at dusk the wind blowing through the reeds comes rustling by and passes on.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Shun'e
Ima wa tada kokoro no hoka ni kiku mono o shirazugao naru ogi no uwakaze
Now I hear it only as something that no longer touches my heart, and yet it blows as though it did not know, the wind across the reed leaves.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Shokushi
Itsumo kiku mono to ya hito no omouramu konu yūgure no akikaze no koe
Does that person think it is only the sound I always hear, the voice of the autumn wind on an evening when no one comes?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Yoshitsune
Kokoro araba fukazu mo aranamu yoiyoi ni hito matsu yado no niwa no matsukaze
If you have a heart, I wish you would not blow, wind in the garden pines, night after night at this house where I wait for someone.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Sato wa arete munashiki toko no atari made mi wa narawashi no akikaze zo fuku
The village has fallen to ruin, and even up to the bed where no one lies beside me the autumn wind blows, a wind my body has grown used to.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren