1-From the morrow
Would I pick new herbs
But in my marked out fields
Both yesterday and today
The snow has kept on falling.

2-“When the autumn comes
Gaze on these and remember,” said she:
My darling planted
Pinks around my house;
And now they bloom.

3-Out in the world
On the path of pleasure
One refreshment:
Drunken weeping,
That’s what it must be.

4-Writhing
I may die of love, yet
Remarkably
No sign of passion’s hue will show, as on
A bellflower bloom.

5-An array,
A multitude of maidens
Scooping
Water from the temple wellhead;
A bunch of lilies!

-The Man’yōshū literally “Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves” is the oldest extant collection of Japanese waka (poetry in Classical Japanese), compiled sometime after AD 759 during the Nara period.