Ono no Komachi

Color of the flower
Has already passed away
While on trivial things
Vainly I have set my gaze,
In my journey through the world.



Ariwara no Narihira Ason

I have never heard
That, e'en when the gods held sway
In the ancient days,
E'er was water bound with red
Such as here in Tatta's stream



Sanjo Udaijin

If thy name be true,
Trailing vine of "Meeting Hill,"
Is there not some way
Whereby, without ken of men,
I can draw thee to my side?



Mibu no Tadamine

Like the morning moon,
Cold, unpitying was my love.
Since that parting hour,
Nothing I dislike so much
As the breaking light of day.



Ki no Tomonori

In the cheerful light
Of the ever-shining Sun,
In the days of spring;
Why, with ceaseless, restless haste
Falls the cherry's new-blown bloom?



Ki no Tsurayuki

No! no! As for man,
How his heart is none can tell,
But the plum's sweet flower
In my birthplace, as of yore,
Still emits the same perfume.



Sanji Hitoshi

Bamboo-growing plain,
With a small-field bearing reeds!
Though I bear my lot,
Why is it too much to bear?
Why do I still love her so?



Mibu no Tadami

Though, indeed, I love,
Yet, the rumor of my love
Had gone far and wide,
When no man, ere then, could know
That I had begun to love.



Chunagon Atsutada

Having met my love,
Afterwards my passion was,
When I measured it
With the feeling of the past,
As, if then, I had not loved.



Fujiwara no Yoshitaka

For thy precious sake,
Once my (eager) life itself
Was not dear to me.
But 'tis now my heart's desire
It may long, long years endure.



Gido Sanshi no Haha

If "not to forget"
Will for him in future years
Be too difficult;--
It were well this very day
That my life, ah me! should close.



Lady Murasaki Shikibu

Meeting in the way,
While I can not clearly know
If 'tis friend or not;
Lo! the midnight moon, ah me!
In a cloud has disappeared.



Akazome Emon

Better to have slept
Care-free, than to keep vain watch
Through the passing night,
Till I saw the lonely moon.
Traverse her descending path.



Sei Shonagon

Though in middle night,
By the feigned crow of the cock,
Some may be deceived;
Yet, at Ausaka's gate
This can never be achieved.