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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Uramitsutsu nuru yo no sode no kawakanu wa makura no shita ni shio ya mitsuran
If the sleeves I sleep in while resenting him never dry, is it because the tide is rising beneath my pillow?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Kiyohara no Fukayabu
Ashibe yori michikuru shio no iyamashi ni omou ka kimi o wasure kanetsuru
Like the tide rising from the reedy shore, is it because my longing grows ever greater that I cannot forget you?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Yamaguchi
Shiogama no mae ni ukitaru Ukishima no ukite omoi no aru yo narikeri
Like the Floating Isle drifting before the bay of Shiogama, my heart is unsettled and sorrowful; ours is a bond full of anxious longing.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Yamaguchi
Ikani nete mieshi naruran utatane no yume yori nochi wa mono o koso omoe
How was it that I slept, that you appeared to me? Ever since that dream in a fitful doze, I have done nothing but brood.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Akazome Emon
Uchitokete nenu mono yue ni yume o mite monoomoi masaru koro ni mo aru kana
Though I have not slept at ease, I see you in my dreams, and these days my brooding only grows deeper.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ono no Takamura
Haru no yo no yume ni aritsu to mietsureba omoi taenishi hito zo mataruru
Because you seemed to be there in my dream on a spring night, I find myself waiting for the one I had given up.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ise
Haru no yo no yume no shirushi wa tsuraku tomo mishi bakari dani araba tanoman
Even if the dream of a spring night proves cruel and never comes true, if I have at least seen you in it, I will put my trust in that.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Prince Moriakira
Nuru yume ni utsutsu no usa mo wasurarete omoi nagusamu hodo zo hakanaki
In the dreams of sleep I forget even the sorrows of waking life and find comfort; yet how brief that comfort is.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Kishi
Kaku bakari nede akashitsuru haru no yo ni ikani mietsuru yume ni ka aruran
On a spring night I passed so entirely without sleep, how could I have seen it? What kind of dream was it?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Onakatomi no Yoshinobu
Namidagawa mi mo ukinubeki nezame kana hakanaki yume no nagori bakari ni
I wake in the night so steeped in tears that I could float away on their river, all for no more than the lingering trace of a fleeting dream.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Jakuren
Au to mite koto zo tomo naku akenu nari hakana no yume no wasuregatami ya
I dreamed that we met, and the night seems to have dawned with nothing come of it; this dawn is all the keepsake left by that fleeting dream.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Ietaka
Toko chikashi anakama yowa no kirigirisu yume ni mo hito no mie mo koso sure
You are close to my bed. Hush, cricket of the night, be quiet; she might appear to me, if only in a dream.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Mototoshi
Aware nari utatane ni nomi mishi yume no nagaki omoi ni musubohorenan
How sad it is: the dream I saw only in a fitful doze will, I fear, knot itself into a longing without end.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Shunzei
Kakiyarishi sono kurokami no suji goto ni uchifusu hodo wa omokage zo tatsu
That black hair I once brushed aside with my hand, strand by strand, rises before me as her image whenever I lie down alone.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Teika
Yume ka to yo mishi omokage mo chigirishi mo wasurezu nagara utsutsu naraneba
Was it a dream? I have not forgotten the face I saw or the vows we made, yet none of it seems real.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - The Daughter of Fujiwara no Shunzei
Hakanaku zo shiranu inochi o nagekikoshi waga kanegoto no kakarikeru yo ni
How vain it was to grieve over a life whose length I could not know, when ours was a bond in which what I had once foretold would come true.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Shokushi