Love Separated by Distant Roads 隔遠路恋
おもひあまりゆけばはるけき玉ぼこの道のそらにもまどふ比かな
omoiamari
yukeba harukeki
tamaboko no
michi no sora ni
madou koro kana | Love-driven to desperation,
When I go, upon the distant
Jewelled-spear straight
Road within the skies
Will I ever lose my way! |
Daishin
Love Separated by Distant Roads 隔遠路恋
我がこひは心づくしのみちとほみゆきめぐりてもいつかあふべき
wa ga koi wa
kokorozukushi no
michi tōmi
yukimeguritemo
itsuka aubeki | My love does
Drain my heart;
On distant roads
He travels on, yet
When is it we will meet? |
Higo
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 Separated by Distant Roads 隔遠路恋
はるばるとおもひやれどもあさゆふにゆかぬ心のくるしきやなぞ
harubaru to
omoiyaredomo
asa yū ni
yukanu kokoro no
kurushiki ya nazo | On the distance far
Do dwell my pondering thoughts, so
Why, morning and evening, too,
Does my heart, held here,
Feel such pain? |
Tadafusa
Love Separated by Distant Roads 隔遠路恋
すくせかななどいなむやの関をしもへだてて人にねをなかすらん
sukuse kana
nado inamuya no
seki o shimo
hedatete hito ni
ne o nakasuran | It must be fate!
Why is it that with even Inamuya’s
Barrier gate
Between them, folk
Must make such cries? |
Toshiyori
Love Separated by Distant Roads 隔遠路恋
白雲の八重なる山はかさぬともこころは空にかよへとほづま
shiragumo no
yae naru yama wa
kasanu tomo
kokoro wa sora ni
kayoe tōzuma | Clouds of white,
Eightfold upon the mountains
Do not lie, yet
My heart, into the skies
Fly back and forth, to my distant love! |
Nakazane
Love Separated by Distant Roads 隔遠路恋
恋ひしなでいきの松原いきたりとつげだにやらぬ道のはるけさ
koishinade
iki no matsubara
ikitari to
tsuge dani yaranu
michi no harukesa | I’ll not die of love, but
As the pine groves at Iki
Live on –
Even that, I cannot proclaim,
So long is the road between us… |
Akinaka
'Simply moving and elegant'