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- Gosen Wakashu
Ima wa tote tachikaeriyuku furusato no Fuwa no sekiji ni miyako wasuru na
Saying that the time has come, you return to your old home—on the road through Fuwa Barrier, do not forget the capital.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyotada
Mi o wakuru koto no katasa ni masukagami kage bakari o zo kimi ni soetsuru
Since I cannot split myself in two, I have sent with you only my image in this clear mirror.
Gosen Wakashu - Ōkubo no Noriyoshi
Hatsukari no ware mo sora naru hodo nareba kimi mo monouki tabi ni ya aruran
Like the first wild geese in the sky, my heart too is restless these days—so perhaps for you as well this is a journey you are loath to make.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ito semete koishiki tabi no karakoromo hodo naku kaesu hito mo aranan
How achingly I miss you—I wish someone would soon turn back the Chinese robe of this journey and send you home to me again.
Gosen Wakashu - Minamoto no Kintada
Karakoromo tatsu hi o yoso ni kiku hito wa kaesu bakari no hodo mo koishi o
You who hear of the day I set out as if it were someone else's affair—yet you say you will miss me even for the short while until I am sent home?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Koishiku wa kotozute mo semu kaerusa no karigane wa mazu waga yado ni nake
When I miss you, I will send you word—so, wild geese on your way back north, come first of all and cry at my house.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Wakarete wa itsu aimimu to omouran kagiri aru yo no inochi to mo nashi
Once we have parted, when do you think we shall meet again? This life, in a world where all things end, does not seem one that will last that long.
Gosen Wakashu - Ise
Somukarenu matsu no chitose no hodo yori mo tomo tomo to dani shitaware zo seshi
More even than the thousand years of the pine that never turns away, I found myself longing for you, wishing only to be together, together.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Tomo tomo to shitau namida no sou mizu wa ika naru iro ni miete yukuran
I wonder in what color the water swelled by tears of longing, crying "together, together," is seen as it flows away.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Wakaruredo ai mo oshimanu momoshiki o mizaramu koto ya nani ka kanashiki
Though I am leaving, why should I grieve at no longer seeing this palace, which does not even mourn our parting?
Gosen Wakashu - Ise
Mi hitotsu ni aranu bakari o oshinabete yukimegurite mo nado ka mizaran
It is only that the palace is no longer mine alone—why should you not come round again, as others do, and see it once more?
Gosen Wakashu - Emperor Uda
Wakareyuku michi no kumoi ni nariyukeba tomaru kokoro mo sora ni koso nare
As your road to Michinoku stretches away into the far-off clouds, even my heart, which stays behind, drifts off into the empty sky.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ikade nao Kasatoriyama ni mi o nashite tsuyukeki tabi ni sowamu to zo omou
Somehow, even now, I wish I could turn myself into Mount Kasatori, the Hat-Taking Mountain, and go along beside you on your dew-drenched journey.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kasatori no yama to tanomishi kimi o okite namida no ame ni nuretsutsu zo yuku
Leaving behind you, on whom I relied as on Mount Kasatori, I go on my way, drenched again and again in a rain of tears.
Gosen Wakashu - Daughter of Minamoto no Muneyuki
Kimi ga yuku kata ni ari chō Namidagawa mazu wa sode ni zo nagaru beranaru
The River of Tears that is said to lie where you are going—before all else, it seems, it flows upon my sleeves.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Sode nurete wakare wa su tomo karakoromo yuku to na iiso kitari to o mimu
Though we part with our sleeves wet with tears, do not say you are going in this Chinese robe—when you wear it, I will see it as your having come to me.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet