Love on Parting 別恋
いもが家のかたに関守すゑてしか今朝わかれ行く我とまるがに
imo ga ie no
kata ni sekimori
sueteshika
kesa wakareyuku
ware tomaru ga ni | Before my darling’s house
A barrier warden
If only there were placed, then
This morning, departing
I would be halted on my way… |
Kanemasa
Love Waiting for Someone 待人恋
ひねもすにくれまちまちて暮れぬれば夜もすがら又人をこそまて
hinemosu ni
kuremachi machite
kurenureba
yo mo sugara mata
hito o koso mate | All day long
I wait for dusk and
Then, when twilight falls,
All night long, once more
I have to wait for him! |
Kanemasa
Love on Waking from Sleep 寝覚恋
夢にさへ涙せきあへぬ身にしあればねてもさめてもぬるる袖かな
yume ni sae
namida seki’aenu
mi ni shi areba
netemo sametemo
nururu sode kana | Even in my dreams
My tears will not be dammed –
Such is my lot, so
Sleeping and waking both
Have I soaking sleeves! |
Kanemasa
Lacking a Glimpse of Love Letters 不見書恋
わぎもこがあふみなりせばさりと我ふみもみてましとどろきのはし
wagimoko ga
au mi nariseba
sari to ware
fumi mo mitemashi
todoroki no hashi | If my darling
Were convinced to meet,
Then, I
Would wish to see her letters, too,
Here upon the bridge at Todoroki. |
Kanemasa
Love Separated by Distant Roads 隔遠路恋
都人恋しきまでにおとせぬはなこその関をさはるにやあらん
miyakobito
koishiki made ni
oto senu wa
nakoso no seki o
sawaru ni ya aran | My lady in the capital
Is more dear than
Words can tell, so
Why should the Barrier at Nakoso,
Close by, stand between us? |
Kanemasa
Love Interrupted by a Year 経年恋
あふことをとしぎりしたる我が身かな花さきがたき桃ならなくに
au koto o
toshigiri shitaru
wa ga mi kana
hana sakigataki
momo naranaku ni | Meetings
Biennial have become
For me!
For all that a rarely blooming
Peach tree I am not… |
Kanemasa
Love as a Month Passes 経月恋
かちそむるしかまのみそのかれはててあひみて過ぎし神無月かな
kachi somuru
shikama no miso no
karehatete
aimite sugishi
kaminazuki kana | Fresh dyed dark indigo
At Shikama, the robes after thirty days
Are done drying;
Since we met, I have passed
The entire Godless Month! |
Kanemasa
Love Interrupted by a Single Night 隔一夜恋
白波にゆらされてくるより竹の一夜もねねば恋しかりけり
shiranami ni
yurasarete kuru
yoritake no
hito yo mo neneba
koishikarikeri | The whitecaps
Toss to shore
Bamboo flotsam;
For even the span of a single night, I will not sleep
For I love her so. |
Kanemasa
When Spring Arrives in the Old Year 旧年立春
とどむるにとどまらざりし春なれど待つにはきけり年の内にも
todomuru ni
todomarazarishi
haru naredo
matsu ni wa kikeri
toshi no uchi ni mo | When it lingers,
It lingered not;
Spring is here, yet
Awaiting it, it has come
Still within this year… |
Kanemasa
Preparing Tribute 貢調
笛竹のつかひはいつかこちくらんあなまちどほの道のあひだや
fue take no
tsukai wa itsuka
kochi kuran
ana machidō no
michi no aida ya | Blowing on his bamboo flute
When will the messenger
Arrive here?
O, the wait feels as long
As the roads he travels on! |
Kanemasa
'Simply moving and elegant'