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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Ikite yomo asu made hito mo tsurakaraji kono yūgure o towaba toe kashi
Surely I will not live until tomorrow, so you cannot go on being cruel to me that long; if you mean to visit me, then come this very evening.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Shokushi
Akatsuki no namida ya sora ni taguuramu sode ni ochikuru kane no oto kana
Do my tears of parting at dawn rise into the sky and travel with it? The sound of the temple bell seems to fall onto my sleeve.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Tsukuzuku to omoiakashi no urachidori nami no makura ni nakunaku zo kiku
Brooding deeply through the night until dawn at Akashi, with the waves for my pillow, I listen, weeping and weeping, to the plovers crying in the bay.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kintsune
Tazunemiru tsuraki kokoro no oku no umi yo shiohi no kata no iu kai mo nashi
The cold heart I seek to fathom is as deep and far as the distant sea; like the flats at low tide with no shells to be found, there is no use in anything I say.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Mishi hito no omokage tomeyo kiyomigata sode ni seki moru nami no kayoiji
Hold here the face of the one I once met, O Kiyomi Bay, along the path of waves that surge onto my sleeve like guards at a barrier, damming up my tears.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Masatsune
Furinikeri shigure wa sode ni aki kakete iishi bakari o matsu to seshi ma ni
The cold rain has fallen on my sleeve and I have grown old, while I meant to wait for the words you merely spoke, promising to come by autumn.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Shunzei's Daughter
Kayoikoshi yado no michishiba karegare ni ato naki shimo no musubohoretsutsu
The grass along the path by which you used to come to my house has withered as your visits have fallen away, and the frost, untouched by any footprint, lies frozen, as my heart lies knotted with grief.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Shunzei's Daughter
Shirotae no sode no wakare ni tsuyu ochite mi ni shimu iro no akikaze zo fuku
As we part our white sleeves at dawn, tears fall like dew, and an autumn wind blows, carrying a color that pierces me to the bone.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Omoiiru mi wa fukakusa no aki no tsuyu tanomeshi sue ya kogarashi no kaze
Lost in deep longing, I am like the autumn dew on the fields of Fukakusa. Is the end of the promise you let me trust only the withering wind that scatters that dew?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Nobe no tsuyu wa iro mo nakute ya koboretsuru sode yori suguru ogi no uwakaze
Did the dew of the fields spill without any color, unlike the tears on my sleeves? The wind over the reed-tops blows on past my sleeves.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jien
Koiwabite nobe no tsuyu to wa kienu tomo tare ka kusaba o aware to wa min
Even if, worn out by love, I vanish like the dew of the fields, who would look upon those grass leaves with pity?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kinhira
Toe kashi na obana ga moto no omoigusa shioruru nobe no tsuyu wa ikani to
If only you would ask me how the dew is faring in the meadow where the longing-flower wilts beneath the silver grass plumes.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Michitomo
Yo no ma ni mo kiyubeki mono o tsuyushimo no ikani shinobe to tanome okuran
I am like dew and frost, sure to vanish within a single night. How, then, am I to endure, when you still leave me trusting in what is to come?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Toshitada
Ada nari to omoishi kadomo kimi yori wa mono wasure senu sode no uwatsuyu
I thought it fleeting, yet the dew on my sleeves forgets far less than you do.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Michinobu
Onajiku wa waga mi mo tsuyu to kienanan kienaba tsuraki koto no ha mo miji
If it comes to the same, I wish I too would vanish like the dew. Once I am gone, I will no longer have to see your cruel words.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Motozane
Ima kon to iu koto no ha mo kareyuku ni yonayona tsuyu no nani ni okuran
Even the words "I will come soon" are withering like leaves, and your heart drifts away; for what, then, does the dew of my tears settle night after night?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Izumi Shikibu