I could not tell you my burning love for you which is compared with the "moxa" on the Ibuki mountain. I hope you would sympathize my ardent passion that is so intense within me.

藤原實方朝臣

Though I fully know that the darkness of ensuing night will come, yet when day breaks I hate the daylight and bittery mourn the unwelcome breaking of the dawn.

藤原道信朝臣

I have watched weeping, deserted, desolate, alone all through the night till now it has broke the morning light. The creeping hours seemed to hie so slowly.

右大將道綱母

Keeping the vows that lovers swear of faithfulness and constancy through life till death is the overtask for human frailty. I would rather die if I could, while we are yet in ardent.

儀同三司母高階貴子

The noisy play of the waterfall has ceased a long time ago, but men recall its fame, though there is no list now in flowing.

大納言公任藤原公任

My mind foretells me that this world shall end before long and before my soul shall go to other world, but once more I wish to see you.

和泉式部

I ventured forth one moonlight night and saw some one past hastening, before I could tell who he was the midnight moon was hidden in the dark cloud.

紫式部

You are more fickle than the wind that pour down from the Arima and still I have not forgotten my love for you.

大貳三位藤原賢子

I waited your comming all through night and vainly watched the moon till she reaches the close of her celestial path of light.

赤染衛門

The roads that cross the plain towards Ikuno and the distant range of Ohoye are impossible journey for me. No one has ever seen my footstep at Amano-Hashidate.

小式部內侍

The Yaye cherry flower which opened at Nara, the capital of yore, was presented to the Imperial palace, and its fragraney and scent spread all over there.

伊勢大輔

Though you might cheat the guards of Kankoku-kan's gate with false cock-crow and thus anticipate them that the morning has come, yet you can't cheat me and Osaka gate shall be kept till morning.

清少納言

Now, deep misery oppress my vexed heart and I can confess my sorrowful mind to none except you. I with to speak you all my wretchedness.

左京大夫道雅藤原道雅

By the dim grly light of carly dawn I strayed by the Uji whence the lifting mist borne me up. There set the scattered glimpses of Zeze's stakes whereon fishermen spread their net.

權中納言定賴藤原定賴

I weep for your long negligence and my tear drenches my sleeves. The happiness of my life has all gone now, and all men despise my name that became the victim of love.

相模

O muontain cherry tree! I moan the lonely fate with you. Your blossom only cheers me - you are only my friend.

前大僧正行尊

If you made your proffered arm as a pillow for my head in the charm of a spring night dreem that does not last long. What will be the rumour? How my fame would suffer from slanderling blame!

周防內侍平仲子

I would no longer live in this so hard world with joy, but still I must live. How wistfully my eyes regard the midnight moonbeam's tranquil sway!

三條院三條天皇

The store winds roar and whirl lustily round the Mimuro mountain and the scattered leaves of maple redden the stream of the Tatsuta river.

能因法師橘永愷

When I stray out from my cabin in lonely solitude and wherver my wandering eyes may roam all landscape appearse desolate and dreadful in autmun.

良選法師

Now, twilight darkens and the wind rustles among the home-side rice field. The sweeping gusts of autumn pass my hut thatched with Ashi grass.

大納言經信藤原經信

Your beauty is known through the land liks the billows on Takashi's shore that drench the venturesome who comes too near. So she who once bathes you will shed the tears of jealous love, and her sleeve shall never be dried.

祐子內親王家紀伊

The cherry trees grow in pelenty on Takasago's steep hill-side and show their crewded blossom. No fog can hide their beauty and no mist can veil their radiance from our eyes.

前權中納言匡房大江匡房

The windy blasts sweep down from the Hasse's steep and scorn your lover's holpless plight. I will pray no more before Hasse's shrine as I rather doubt its fulfilment.

源俊賴朝臣

The covenant that you made with me is my very life. Alas! I fear this antumn days are now but short.

藤原基俊

I glide over the brood expanse of ocean and toward the horizon. When I turn my glance I can scarcely discern white-tipped billows with the cloud-horizon blend.

法性寺入道前關白太政大臣藤原忠通

The tumbling waters of a browling stream fiercely hurl against the rocks and they whirls onward in double tor rent. In further flow they will show a single stream.

崇德院崇德天皇

The screaming sea-birds fly to and fro, night after night and their ceaseless cry scarcely allow a moment sleep, to whom his fate allots the ward of Suma's gate.

源兼昌

When autumn chilly blast blows the sunbeams peep through from amid the dark clouds that are drifting. I love to see the bright edged shadows over the lea.

左京大夫顯輔藤原顯輔

I fear you will break the covenant that you have sworn with me and your love will pass away from me. My tress is as tangled as the unkempt mass that flow over my pillow.

待賢門院堀河

I heard the Hototogisu cry and I searched through all the echoing sky but I espy neither the bird nor the cloud. The morning moon alone met my eye.

後德大寺左大臣藤原實定

What a wretched life I have! I strive with my sad lot that leaves me no peace or rest. My anguish is shown by the teurs that flow down over my check.

道因法師藤原敦賴

Over all the world the evil hold its sway and I fled far away amid the hills, but there too sad cries of deer thrill.

皇太后宮大夫俊成藤原俊成

If I were to linger in life longer, what I thought to be a grievous life would seem to be a slight burden that I can born almost with delight.

藤原清輔朝臣

I lay sleepless through the long night with wretched, distracted thought, and I waited for the day break throuhg the chink of screen that guards my chamber.

俊惠法師

My love sick soul sways the moon-light night with deep melancholy. See how my face betrays my woe and how tears roll down my cheek.

西行法師佐藤義清

The passing shower sweeps onward and while its scattered drops are yet on yew-leaves the rising mist is seen on yonder hill side in antumn evening·

寂蓮法師藤原定長

The joint of reeds that are gathered in Naniwaye is very short and the meeting was so brief that it was only a dream. But the love is so deeply impressed that I couldn't forget.

皇嘉門院別當

The thread of my life must snap sooner or later and I almost dread of longer life. I am more superior to one who has long life in bad rumour.

式子內親王

I wish I will show you often drenched sleeves of the island-fisher-men and their tints never fade by salt water. But alas! all colours passed away from me.

殷富門院大輔

I hear grasshopper's chirp all through night and hoarfrost overcarpet the ground, and I strive in vain to get the response of a lonely couch.

後京極攝政前太政大臣藤原良經

My sleeve is unseen as the rock which never bared at the lowest ebb tide. None guess my grief and my tear-drenched sleeve that never dry.

二條院讚岐

Throughout the endless life I might dwell in peace. I watched a fishing boat that hauls abundant fish with nets. How fair it is to me, and how pleasant such a lot would be!

鎌倉右大臣源實朝

Now antumn wind sweeps down the steep of Miyoshino and I hear the sound of Leating of cloth, borne forth to me by the night wind, from my lovely village home.

參議雅經藤原雅經

I am an ignorant man, unfit to sit over all the multitude of men. I would gladly wear again simple priest's black robe and I am a humble dweller on Wagatatsusoma.

前大僧正慈円

The court is strewn with cherry flower as thick as if the drifted snow did lay thereon, and I too, shall lie low beneath the blow of man'sine vitable foc.

入道前太政大臣藤原公經

On dusky hour of night, I waited my longed-for mistress on the meeting place of Matsuho shore. Why you are so late! My ardent passion rages higher than the fire that heats the salt-pans.

權中納言定家藤原定家

The wind blows softly over the stream of Nara in dim twilight, and the Misogi which is set thereby show that the summer has not yet quite gone.

從二位家隆藤原家隆

Some men love me and some hate me, whenever I think upon his miserable world my fate seems to me more pitiful.

後鳥羽院後鳥羽天皇

A rent and tattered roof is seen in the Imperial palace, where Shinobu grow. How long and how hard the pain has been!

順德院順德天皇