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- Murasaki Shikibu Nikki
Yomosugara kuina yori ke ni nakunaku zo maki no toguchi ni tatakiwabitsuru
All night long, weeping more than the water rail that cries like a knock upon the door, I knocked in vain at your cypress door until I despaired.
Murasaki Shikibu Nikki - Fujiwara no Michinaga (not named in the text; attributed in the Shinchokusen Wakashū)
Tada naraji to bakari tataku kuina yue akete wa ika ni kuyashikaramashi
Had I opened the door to a water rail knocking as though it were a matter of great urgency, how bitterly I would have regretted it.
Murasaki Shikibu Nikki - Murasaki Shikibu