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- Gosen Wakashu
Kyōsoku o osaete masae yorozuyo ni hana no sakari o kokoro shizuka ni
Rest your arm upon this armrest and stay at ease, and through ten thousand years enjoy the full bloom of flowers with a tranquil heart.
Gosen Wakashu - Ninkyō
Kimi ga tame iwau kokoro no fukakereba hijiri no miyo no ato narae to zo
Because my heart wishes you well so deeply, I ask that you learn from these traces, and follow the footsteps of the reigns of the sage emperors.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadahira
Oshieoku koto tagawazu wa yukusue no michi tōku tomo ato wa madowaji
If I do not depart from what you have taught me, then however far the road ahead may run, I will not lose my way along the traces.
Gosen Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Yamabito no koreru takigi wa kimi ga tame ōku no toshi o tsumamu to zo omou
This firewood the mountain folk have cut, I mean to stack up for you, as though piling up many years of life.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadahira
Toshi no kazu tsumamu to su naru omoni ni wa itodo kozuke o kori mo soenan
On that heavy load with which, you say, you mean to pile up the number of years, I would have you cut still more wood and add a small bundle on top.
Gosen Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Kimi ga tame utsushite uuru kuretake ni chiyo mo komoreru kokochi koso sure
In this black bamboo we transplant for you, it seems as if a thousand ages lie stored within.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kiyotada
Ono no e no kuchimu mo shirazu kimi ga yo no tsukimu kagiri wa uchikokoromiyo
Heedless even if your axe handle should rot away, play on at go and try your hand for as long as your reign endures.
Gosen Wakashu - Isagiyokiko, Lady of the Fifth Rank
Namitateru matsu no midori no eda wakazu oritsutsu chiyo o tare to ka wa mimu
Breaking off branches of the green pines standing side by side, choosing no one bough over another—with whom but you would I watch a thousand years go by?
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Morosuke
Iwau koto ari to naru beshi kyō naredo toshi no konata ni haru mo kinikeri
There must be something to celebrate—for though it is only today, still this side of the new year, spring has already arrived.
Gosen Wakashu - Ki no Tsurayuki
Mada shiranu hito mo arikeru azumaji ni ware mo yukite zo sumu bekarikeru
In the eastern lands there are still those who have not heard of my son's death—I should have gone there myself to live.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Saneyori
Haru no yo no yume no naka ni mo omoiki ya kimi naki yado o yukite mimu to wa
Not even in a dream on a fleeting spring night could I have imagined that I would come to see your house with you no longer in it.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Tadahira
Yado mireba nete mo samete mo koishikute yume utsutsu to mo wakarezarikeri
Whenever I look at this house I long for him, asleep or awake, until I can no longer tell dream from waking.
Gosen Wakashu - Unknown Poet
Hakanakute yo ni furu yori wa Yamashina no miya no kusaki to naramashi mono o
Rather than lingering on in this empty world, I would sooner become the grass and trees of the imperial tomb at Yamashina.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Sadakata
Yamashina no miya no kusaki to kimi naraba ware wa shizuku ni nuru bakari nari
If you were to become the grass and trees of the tomb at Yamashina, I would do nothing but be soaked by the drops that fall from them.
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Kanesuke
Wakarenishi hodo o hate to mo omooezu koishiki koto no kagiri nakereba
I cannot feel that the time since we parted has reached its end, for my longing for him knows no limit.
Gosen Wakashu - Wife of Taira no Tokimochi
Tane mo naki hana dani chiranu yado mo aru o nado ka katami no ko dani nakaran
There are houses where even a seedless flower has not yet fallen—so why is there not even a child left to remember her by?
Gosen Wakashu - Fujiwara no Morosuke