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Yo o umi ni kokora shiojimu mi to narite
nao kono kishi o e koso hanarene
Weary of the world, I have become one soaked in brine these many years on this shore, and still I cannot get free of this bank.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Miyako ideshi haru no nageki ni otorame ya
toshi furu ura o wakarenuru aki
Could it fall short of the grief of that spring when I left the capital—this autumn, parting from a shore grown old with years?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Watatsuumi ni shizumi urabure hiru no ko no
ashi tatazarishi toshi wa henikeri
Sunk in the great sea and brought low, like the leech-child who could not stand on his legs, I have let the years pass.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Miyabashira meguriaikeru toki shi areba
wakareshi haru no urami nokosu na
Since there are times of meeting again, as the gods met circling the shrine pillar, do not hold on to the grudge of the spring we parted.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Nagekitsutsu Akashi no ura ni asagiri no
tatsu ya to hito o omoiyaru kana
Does the morning mist rise over Akashi bay, where you pass your nights in grief? So my thoughts go out to you.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Suma no ura ni kokoro o yoseshi funabito no
yagate kutaseru sode o misebaya
I would show you the sleeve of the boat-woman who gave her heart at the shore of Suma, and has let it rot away with tears since.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Kaerite wa kagoto ya semashi yosetarishi
nagori ni sode no higatakarishi o
Turning back, shall I be the one to complain? After you came near and went, my own sleeve was slow enough to dry.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Kanete yori hedatenu naka to narawanedo
wakare wa oshiki mono ni zo arikeru
We never grew used to being close, with nothing held back between us; and still the parting is hard to bear.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Uchitsuke no wakare o oshimu kagoto nite
omowamu kata ni shitai ya wa senu
Grief at parting from someone so newly met is your pretext—is it not the one you long for that you would follow?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Itsushika mo sode uchikakemu otomego ga
yo o hete nazuru iwa no oisaki
How soon may I lay my sleeve over her—the rock the heavenly maiden strokes as the ages pass—and all the years before her.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Hitori shite nazuru wa sode no hodo naki ni
ōru bakari no kage o shi zo matsu
Raising her by myself, my sleeve is too narrow to cover her; I wait for a shade broad enough to cover her wholly.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Omoudochi nabiku kata ni wa arazu tomo
ware zo keburi ni sakidachinamashi
Though I am not in the quarter the two who love each other drift toward, I shall go first, and be smoke.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Tare ni yori yo o umi yama ni yukimeguri
taenu namida ni ukishizumu mi zo
For whose sake did I wander this wretched world by sea and hill, a body rising and sinking in tears that never end?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Miru ya toki zo to mo naki kage ni ite
nani no ayame mo ika ni wakuramu
Living like seaweed in a shade that knows no season, how is she to tell this day from any other, on this day of irises?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Kazu naranu mishimagakure ni naku tazu o
kyō mo ika ni to tou hito zo naki
The crane crying from behind an island of no account—even today there is no one to ask how she fares.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Kuina dani odorokasazu wa ika ni shite
aretaru yado ni tsuki o iremashi
If the water rail had not knocked and startled me, how could I have let the moon into so ruined a house?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu