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- Genji Monogatari
Chigiriokamu kono yo narade mo hachisuba ni
tama iru tsuyu no kokoro hedatsu na
Let us promise it now, for beyond this world as well: that nothing shall come between our hearts, like dew set as beads upon the lotus leaves.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Yūtsuyu ni sode nurase to ya higurashi no
naku o kiku kiku okite yukuramu
Is it that my sleeves should be wet with the evening dew? Hearing the cicada cry as you do, you rise all the same and go.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Matsu sato mo ikaga kikuramu katagata ni
kokoro sawagasu higurashi no koe
And how does the house that waits for me hear it? On this side and on that it sets the heart astir, this voice of the evening cicada.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Ama no yo o yoso ni kikame ya Suma no ura ni
moshio tareshi mo tare naranaku ni
Could I hear of your new life as a thing apart from me? The one who wept out his salt at the shore of Suma was no other than myself, and for your sake.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Amabune ni ikaga wa omoiokurekemu
Akashi no ura ni isari seshi kimi
How is it that you fell behind the fisher's boat? You were the one, after all, who went out fishing at the shore of Akashi.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Ima wa tote moemu keburi mo musubōre
taenu omoi no nao ya nokoramu
Even the smoke that rises when I burn, saying now it ends, will not clear away; and the longing that never ends will remain behind.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Tachisoite kie ya shinamashi uki koto o
omoimidaruru keburi kurabe ni
Let me rise beside you and vanish with that smoke, since we are matching grief against grief, and both are left in disorder.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Yukue naki sora no keburi to narinu tomo
omou atari o tachi wa hanareji
Even if I turn to smoke in a sky with nowhere to go, I will not rise and leave the place where the one I love is.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Ta ga yo ni ka tane wa makishi to hito towaba
ikaga iwane no matsu wa kotaemu
If someone should ask in whose day the seed was sown, how would this pine, rooted in rock, ever answer?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Toki shi areba kawaranu iro ni nioikeri
katae karenishi yado no sakura mo
When the season comes round it blooms in the same color as before—even the cherry of a house where one branch has withered away.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Kono haru wa yanagi no me ni zo tama wa nuku
sakichiru hana no yukue shiraneba
This spring the beads are strung along the willow buds, for I do not know where the flowers that bloomed and fell have gone.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Ko no shita no shizuku ni nurete sakasama ni
kasumi no koromo kitaru haru kana
Wet with the drops that fall beneath the tree, I wear it in the wrong order—this robe of haze that has come to me this spring.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Naki hito mo omowazarikemu uchisutete
yūbe no kasumi kimi kitare to wa
Even the one who is gone can never have thought that, leaving you behind, he would set this evening haze upon your shoulders.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Urameshi ya kasumi no koromo tare ki yo to
haru yori saki ni hana no chirikemu
How it galls me that the blossom should have fallen before the spring itself, leaving this robe of haze for someone else to wear.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Koto naraba narashi no eda ni narasanamu
hamori no kami no yurushi ariki to
If it comes to that, let me be made as familiar as the twinned branches, on the word that the leaf-guarding god had given me his leave.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Kashiwagi ni hamori no kami wa masazu tomo
hito narasubeki yado no kozue ka
Though the leaf-guarding god may no longer dwell in the oak, is this a treetop of ours that should be made familiar with any man?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu