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- Izumi Shikibu Nikki
Yo to tomo ni mono omou hito wa yoru tote mo uchitokete me no au toki mo nashi
For one who is always lost in sorrow, there is no time, even at night, when the eyes can meet in restful sleep.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Orisugiba sate mo koso yame samidare no koyoi ayame no ne o ya kakemashi
Once the season has gone by, I may well put an end to it; but tonight, in the early-summer rain, shall I hang up the iris roots and weep aloud?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Tsurakeredo wasure ya wa suru hodo fureba ito koishiki ni kyō wa makenan
Though you hurt me, how could I forget you? As time passes I miss you so much that today I will let my longing defeat me.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Makuru tomo mienu mono kara tamakazura tou hito sura mo taema gachi nite
You say you will give in, yet I see no sign of it; like a trailing vine that keeps breaking off, even your visits come only now and then.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Akezarishi maki no toguchi ni tachinagara tsuraki kokoro no tameshi to zo mishi
Standing before your cypress door, which would not open, I thought I saw in it a true example of a cruel heart.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Ikade ka wa maki no itado mo sashinagara tsuraki kokoro no ari nashi o min
How could you tell whether my heart is cruel or not, while the cypress door stayed shut between us?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Ōkata ni samidaruru to ya omouran kimi koiwataru kyō no nagame o
Do you think this is only the usual early-summer rain? It is the long rain of my brooding, as I go on longing for you today.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Shinoburan mono to mo shirade ono ga tada mi o shiru ame to omoikeru kana
Not knowing that this rain fell from your longing for me, I thought it was only the rain that teaches me how poor my lot is.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Fureba yo no itodo uki mi no shiraruru o kyō no nagame ni mizu masaranan
Whenever it rains I feel more keenly how sorrowful my life in this world is; let today's long rain swell the waters high and carry me away.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Nani sen ni mi o sae sutten to omouran ame ga shita ni wa kimi nomi ya furu
Why would you think of throwing away even your life? Beneath the heavens, are you the only one on whom the rain falls, the only one living through this world?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Yomosugara nanigoto o ka wa omoitsuru mado utsu ame no oto o kikitsutsu
All night long, what do you suppose I was thinking of, as I listened to the rain beating on the window?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Ware mo sazo omoiyaritsuru ame no oto o saseru tsuma naki yado wa ika ni to
I too was thinking of you as I heard the rain, wondering how it fared with your house, which has no eaves to speak of and no one to shelter it.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Ōmizu no kishi tsukitaru ni kuraburedo fukaki kokoro wa nao zo masareru
Even when I compare it with the flood that has risen to the very banks, my deep love for you runs deeper still.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Ima wa yo mo kishi mo seji kashi ōmizu no fukaki kokoro wa kawa to misetsutsu
Surely you will not come to me now, crossing the banks, though you show me a heart deep as a flooding river, in words alone.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Yoigoto ni kaeshi wa suredo ikade nao akatsukioki wa kimi ni nasaseji
I may send you home each evening, but somehow, still, I will never make you rise before dawn and leave.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Asatsuyu ni okuru omoi ni kurabureba tada ni kaeran yoi wa masareri
Compared with the sorrow of being sent home as the morning dew settles, it is far better to go home quietly in the evening.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu