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- Izumi Shikibu Nikki
Koroshite mo nao akanu kana nenu tori no orifushi shiranu kesa no hatsukoe
Even killing it is not enough—that cock which crowed this morning, heedless of the hour.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Ikaga to wa ware koso omoe asanasana naki kikasetsuru tori o koroseba
It is I who should ask what you were thinking, killing the bird that sang to us morning after morning.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Waga gotoku omoi wa izu ya yama no ha no tsuki ni kaketsutsu nageku kokoro o
Do you, as I do, recall this heart of mine, which hangs its longing on the moon above the mountain rim and grieves?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Hitoyo mishi tsuki zo to omoedo nagamureba kokoro mo yukazu me wa sora ni shite
I tell myself it is the very moon we watched that one night, yet as I gaze at it my heart finds no peace, and my eyes drift absently across the sky.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Matsuyama ni nami takashi to wa miteshikado kyō no nagame wa tada naranu kana
I had seen well enough that high waves were washing over the Pine Mountain, yet my brooding in today's long rain is far from ordinary.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Kimi o koso sue no matsu to wa omoitsure hitoshinami ni wa tare ka koyubeki
I thought it was you who were the Pine Mountain of Sue, the one whose heart might waver. Who else could cross my heart as waves do, just as you have?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Tsurashi tomo mata koishi tomo samazama ni omou koto koso taezezarikeri
Now I think you cruel, now I think you dear; my thoughts of you, in so many forms, never cease.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Au koto wa tomare kakumare nagekaji o urami taesenu naka to nariseba
Whether or not we meet, I would not grieve over that, were it not that ours has become a love in which resentment never ends.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Tsuki o mite aretaru yado ni nagamu to wa mi ni konu made mo tare ni tsugeyo to
I gaze at the moon from my ruined house, lost in thought; even if you will not come to see it, whom but you am I to tell?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Kokoromi ni ame mo furanan yado sugite ura yuku tsuki no kage ya tomaru to
If only rain would fall, just to see whether the moonlight passing my house on its way to the bay might stay a while.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Ajikinaku kumoi no tsuki ni sasowarete kage koso izure kokoro ya wa yuku
Against my will, drawn on by the moon in the sky, my form may leave this place, but how could my heart go with it?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Waga yue ni tsuki o nagamu to tsugetsureba makoto ka to mi ni idete kinikeri
Since you told me you were gazing at the moon because of me, I have come out to see whether it was true.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Yoshi ya yoshi ima wa uramiji iso ni idete kogihanareyuku ama no obune o
Very well, I will no longer reproach you, little fisher's boat that left the rocky shore and rowed away.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Sode no ura ni tada waga yaku to shiotarete fune nagashitaru ama to koso nare
On the Bay of Sleeves, thinking only of my task of burning salt and soaked with brine, I have become a fisherwoman whose boat has drifted off, and my sleeves are wet with tears.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Omoiki ya tanabatatsume ni mi o nashite ama no kawara o nagamubeshi to wa
Did I ever imagine I would become the Weaver Maid, gazing out over the banks of the River of Heaven, longing for one I cannot meet?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Nagamuran sora o dani mizu tanabata ni imaru bakari no waga mi to omoeba
I do not even look at the sky you gaze upon, for I feel I am so ill-omened that even the Weaver Maid of Tanabata would shun me.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu