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Ware nomi ya ukiyo o shireru tameshi nite
nuresou sode no na o kutasubeki
Must I alone stand as the example of one who has known this hard world, and let the name of these sleeves, wet all over again, rot away?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Ōkata wa ware nureginu o kisezu tomo
kuchinishi sode no na ya wa kakururu
Even if I lay no false blame upon you, can the name of sleeves already worn through be hidden now?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Ogiwara ya nokiba no tsuyu ni sobochitsutsu
yae tatsu kiri o wake zo yukubeki
Soaked through by the dew at the eaves of this reed field, I must part my way out through mists that stand eightfold deep.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Wakeyukamu kusaba no tsuyu o kagoto nite
nao nureginu o kakemu to ya omou
Making a pretext of the dew on the grass you must part to go, do you mean even so to lay false blame upon me?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Tamashii o tsurenaki sode ni tomeokite
waga kokoro kara madowaruru kana
Having left my soul behind at your unfeeling sleeve, I am lost—and it is my own heart that has led me astray.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Seku kara ni asasa zo miemu yamagawa no
nagarete no na o tsutsumihatezu wa
It is the damming that will show how shallow it is, like a mountain stream—if the name that flows on cannot be kept covered.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Ominaeshi shioruru nobe o izuko tote
hitoyo bakari no yado o karikemu
For what sort of place did you take this meadow where the maidenflower droops, that you borrowed it as lodging for a single night?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Aki no no no kusa no shigemi wa wakeshikado
karine no makura musubi ya wa seshi
I did part my way through the thick grasses of the autumn field; but did I ever knot the grass into a pillow for the night?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Aware o mo ika ni shirite ka nagusamemu
aru ya koishiki naki ya kanashiki
Knowing it for what, am I to comfort you? Is it the living one you long for, or the one who is gone that grieves you?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Izure to ka wakite nagamemu kiekaeru
tsuyu mo kusaba no ue to minu yo o
Which of them should I single out and dwell on, in a world where the dew that vanishes and forms again does not lie on grass blades alone?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Sato tōmi Ono no shinohara wakete kite
ware mo shika koso koe mo oshimane
The village being far, I have come parting my way through the bamboo grass of Ono; and I too, like the deer, do not spare my voice.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Fujigoromo tsuyukeki aki no yamabito wa
shika no naku ne ni ne o zo soetsuru
The mountain dwellers, their mourning robes heavy with autumn dew, have added their own voices to the crying of the deer.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Mishi hito no kage sumihatenu ikemizu ni
hitori yado moru aki no yo no tsuki
In the pond water where the face I used to see no longer stands clear, the moon of this autumn night keeps the house alone.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Itsu to ka wa odorokasubeki akenu yo no
yume samete to ka iishi hitokoto
When am I to come and wake you? You spoke one word: when the dream of a night that never ends has broken.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Asayū ni naku ne o tatsuru Onoyama wa
taenu namida ya Otonashi no taki
On Ono mountain, where morning and evening I weep aloud, do these tears that never end become the soundless waterfall?
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu
Noborinishi mine no keburi ni tachimajiri
omowanu kata ni nabikazu mogana
Let me rise and mingle with the smoke that went up from that ridge, and never be made to lean toward a quarter I did not choose.
Genji Monogatari - Murasaki Shikibu