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- Shin Kokin Wakashu
Idete inishi ato dani imada kawaranu ni ta ga kayoiji to ima wa naruran
Even the footprints I left when I went away have not yet changed; whose path to you has it now become?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ariwara no Narihira
Ume no hana ka o nomi sode ni todome okite waga omou hito wa otozure mo senu
The plum blossoms leave only their fragrance lingering on my sleeves, but the one I love does not even come to visit.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Ariwara no Narihira
Ama no hara soko to mo shiranu ōzora ni obotsukanasa o nagekitsuru kana
Like the vast sky, the plain of heaven where no one can tell where anything lies, I have been lamenting how uncertain I am of you.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Nagekuran kokoro o sora ni miteshigana tatsu asagiri ni mi o ya nasamashi
I would like to look down from the sky and see the heart that you say is grieving. Shall I turn myself into the rising morning mist?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Princess Kishi
Awazu shite furu korohoi no amata areba harukeki sora ni nagame o zo suru
So many days have passed without our meeting, as the long rains fall, that I gaze into the far-off sky, lost in brooding.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Koko
Omoiyaru kokoro mo sora ni shirakumo no idetatsu kata o shirase ya wa senu
My heart, reaching out to you, drifts in the sky; will you not let me know where you are setting out for, rising like the white clouds?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Prince Munehira
Kumoi yori tooyamadori no nakite yuku koe honoka naru koi mo suru kana
Like the voice of a pheasant from the distant hills calling as it passes high among the clouds, faint is the love I feel.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Oshikochi no Mitsune
Kumoi naru kari dani nakite kuru aki ni nadoka wa hito no otozure mo senu
In autumn even the wild geese flying high among the clouds come calling; why is it, then, that you do not come to me?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Daigo
Haru yukite aki made to ya wa omoiken kari ni wa arazu chigirishi mono o
When you went away in spring, did I ever think it would be autumn before you returned? We pledged that ours was no passing thing, like the wild geese.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Hatsukari no hatsuka ni kikishi kotozute mo kumoji ni taete waburu koro kana
Like the cry of the first wild geese, I heard your message only faintly, and now it has broken off on the paths of the clouds, and these days I pine away.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Minamoto no Takaakira
Omigoromo kozo bakari koso narezarame kyō no hikage no kakete dani toe
Though we may not grow as close as last year, when we served in the ritual robes, today, when the sun-vine is hung on our caps, at least keep me in your heart and write to me.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Korenari
Sumiyoshi no koiwasuregusa tane taete naki yo ni aeru ware zo kanashiki
The love-forgetting grass of Sumiyoshi has died out to its very seed, and how sad I am to be born into a world without it.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Motozane
Mizu no ue no hakanaki kazu mo omooezu fukaki kokoro shi soko ni tomareba
I do not think of anything as fleeting as numbers written on water; for my heart, deep as the water, remains settled at the bottom.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Emperor Murakami
Nagaki yo no tsukinu nageki no taezaraba nani ni inochi o kaete wasuren
If this endless grief through the long ages never ceases, for what could I exchange my life that would let me forget?
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Koretada
Kokoro ni mo makasezarikeru inochi mote tanome mo okaji tsune naranu yo o
With a life that does not follow even my own heart's wishes, I will make you no promises; this world is not constant.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Atsutada
Yo no uki mo hito no tsuraki mo shinoburu ni koishiki ni koso omoiwabinure
I can bear the sorrows of the world and the coldness of the one I love; it is longing alone that wears me down.
Shin Kokin Wakashu - Fujiwara no Motozane