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- Manyoshu
Tsumagoi ni ka naku yamabe no akihagi wa tsuyushimo samumi sakari sugiyuku
The autumn bush clover on the mountainside, where the deer cry in longing for their mates, is passing its prime in the cold of the chill dew.
Manyoshu - Ishikawa no Hironari
Mezurashiki kimi ga ie naru hanasusuki ho ni izuru aki no suguraku oshi mo
How I regret the passing of this autumn, when the pampas grass at your fine house puts forth its plumes.
Manyoshu - Ishikawa no Hironari
Yamabiko no aitoyomu made tsumagoi ni ka naku yamabe ni hitori nomi shite
On the mountainside where the deer cry for their mates until the echoes answer back, here I am, all alone.
Manyoshu - Otomo no Yakamochi
Konokoro no asake ni kikeba ashihiki no yama yobitoyome saoshika naku mo
Listening at dawn these days, I hear the stag crying, calling so that the mountains ring.
Manyoshu - Otomo no Yakamochi
Aki sareba kasuga no yama no momichi miru nara no miyako no aruraku oshi mo
The capital of Nara, from which we gazed on the autumn leaves of Mount Kasuga every fall: how I grieve to see it falling into ruin.
Manyoshu - Ōhara no Imaki
Takamato no nobe no akihagi konokoro no akatokitsuyu ni sakinikemu kamo
The autumn bush clover in the fields of Takamato: has it bloomed by now, touched by the dew of these dawns?
Manyoshu - Otomo no Yakamochi
Kimi matsu to aga koioreba waga yado no sudare ugokashi aki no kaze fuku
As I wait for you, longing, the autumn wind comes blowing, stirring the blinds of my house.
Manyoshu - Princess Nukata
Kaze o dani kouru wa tomoshi kaze o dani komu to shi mataba nani ka nagekamu
How I envy you, who can long even for the wind; if I too could wait, believing that even the wind would come, what would I have to grieve over?
Manyoshu - Princess Kagami
Akihagi no ue ni okitaru shiratsuyu no ke kamo shinamashi koitsutsu arazu wa
Like the white dew lying on the autumn bush clover, I would rather vanish away than go on longing like this.
Manyoshu - Prince Yuge
Uda no no no akihagi shinogi naku shika mo tsuma ni kouraku ware ni wa masaji
Even the deer that cries as it pushes through the autumn bush clover on Uda Plain could not surpass me in longing for a wife.
Manyoshu - Tajihi no Mahito
Ashihiki no yamashita toyome naku shika no koto tomoshi kamo waga kokorozuma
The deer's cry rings through the foot of the mountain, yet how scarce your words to me are, my husband in my heart.
Manyoshu - Princess Kasanui
Kamusabu to ina ni wa arazu akikusa no musubishi himo o toku wa kanashi mo
It is not that I refuse you because I have grown old; it is only that untying the cord I tied like autumn grasses fills me with sorrow.
Manyoshu - Lady Ishikawa no Kake
Aki no no o asa yuku shika no ato mo naku omoishi kimi ni aeru koyoi ka
Like the deer that leaves no trace crossing the autumn fields at dawn, I had thought of you without any hope; and tonight at last we have met.
Manyoshu - Princess Kamo
Nagatsuki no sono hatsukari no tsukai ni mo omou kokoro wa kikoekonu kamo
Even by way of the first wild geese of the ninth month, might word of your gracious thoughts of me not reach me here?
Manyoshu - Prince Sakurai
Ō no ura no sono nagahama ni yosuru nami yutakeku kimi o omou konokoro
Like the waves that roll in upon the long beach of Ō Bay, broad and generous is the way I think of you these days.
Manyoshu - Emperor Shōmu
Asagoto ni waga miru yado no nadeshiko no hana ni mo kimi wa arikosenu kamo
If only you could become the pinks in my garden, which I gaze upon every morning.
Manyoshu - Lady Kasa