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- Gosen Wakashu
Ashigara no seki no yamaji o yuku hito wa shiru mo shiranu mo utokaranu kana
All those who travel the mountain road through the Ashigara barrier, whether I know them or not, seem to me like friends.
Gosen Wakashu - The Monk Shinsei
Hito goto ni kyō kyō to nomi koiraruru miyako chikaku mo narinikeru kana
The capital that each of us has longed for, saying "today, surely today," has at last come near.
Gosen Wakashu - Shōbō
Teru tsuki no nagaruru mireba Ama no Kawa izuru minato wa umi ni zo arikeru
Watching the bright moon flow across the sky, I see that the River of Heaven has its mouth out here in the sea.
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Kusamakura momiji mushiro ni kaetaraba kokoro o kudaku mono naramashi ya
If one could trade the grass pillow of the road for a mat of crimson leaves, would travel still be something that wears the heart to pieces?
Gosen Wakashu - Emperor Uda
Omou hito arite kaereba itsu shika no tsuma matsu yoi no koe zo kanashiki
Because I am going home to the one I love, the voice that cries at dusk, impatient for its mate, sounds all the sadder to me.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kusamakura yuu te bakari wa nani nare ya tsuyu mo namida mo okikaeritsutsu
Why is it that on the very hands that tie my grass pillow both dew and tears keep settling, and I keep starting up from sleep again and again?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Akiyama ni madou kokoro o Miyataki no taki no shiraawa ni kechi ya hatetemu
This heart that wanders lost among the autumn hills—shall I quench it completely in the white foam of the falls at Miyataki?
Gosen Wakashu - Sosei
Yorozuyo no shimo ni mo karenu shiragiku o ushiroyasuku mo kazashitsuru kana
White chrysanthemums that no frost can wither through ten thousand years—with a heart at ease, I have set them in my hair.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Korehira
Kumo wakuru ama no hagoromo uchikite wa kimi ga chitose ni awazarame ya wa
Once I put on this robe, like the feather robe of heaven that cleaves the clouds, how could I fail to see your thousand years?
Gosen Wakashu - Akirakeiko, Assistant Handmaid
Kotoshi yori wakana ni soete oi no yo ni ureshiki koto o tsumamu to zo omou
From this year on, along with the young greens I gather, I mean to heap up glad things in the days of my old age.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadahira
Koto no ne mo take mo chitose no koe suru wa hito no omoi ni kayou narikeri
If the notes of the koto and the bamboo flutes alike seem to sing of a thousand years, it is because they share the feelings in the hearts of all those gathered here.
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Momotose to iwau o ware wa kikinagara omou ga tame wa akazu zo arikeru
Though I hear them wishing "a hundred years," for the one I hold dear, even that still seems too little.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Ōhara ya Oshio no yama no komatsubara haya kodakakare chiyo no kage mimu
O field of young pines on Mount Oshio in Ōhara—grow tall quickly, so that I may see your shade spread for a thousand years.
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Uchiyosuru nami no hana koso sakinikere chiyo matsukaze ya haru ni naruran
The flowers of the surging waves have bloomed—could the wind in the pines that wait a thousand years be turning into spring?
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Kimi ga tame matsu no chitose mo tsukinu beshi kore yori masamu kami no yo mo gana
For you, even the pine's thousand years will surely run out—if only there were an age of the gods to outlast even these.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Momotose ni yasotose soete inorikuru tama no shirushi o kimi mizarame ya
I have prayed for you a hundred years and eighty more besides—how could you fail to see the blessing these beads will bring?
Gosen Wakashu - Priest Yuisei