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- Izumi Shikibu Nikki
Michishiba no tsuyu to okinuru hito yori mo waga tamakura no sode wa kawakazu
More than you, who rose and left like dew settling on the wayside grass, it is my arm-pillow sleeve that never dries.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Tamakura no sode ni mo shimo wa okikeru o kesa uchimireba shirotae ni shite
Frost has settled even on the sleeve where you pillowed your head; looking at it this morning, I find it pure white.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Tsuma kou to okiakashitsuru shimo nareba
Since this is the frost of a night I spent awake until dawn, longing for my love...
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Nenuru yo no tsuki wa miru ya to kesa wa shimo okiite matedo tou hito mo nashi
This morning I sat up waiting for someone to ask whether I had seen last night's moon, but no one came to ask at all.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Madoromade hitoyo nagameshi tsuki miredo okinagara shimo akashigao naru
I watched the moon all night without a moment's sleep, yet you put on the face of one who stayed awake until dawn.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Shimo no ue ni asahi sasu meri ima wa haya uchitokenikeru keshiki misenan
The morning sun seems to be shining on the frost; now, at last, let me see you thaw and soften your mood.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Asahi sashi ima wa kiyubeki shimo naredo uchitokegataki sora no keshiki zo
The morning sun is shining and the frost should melt away now, yet the sky of my mood is not so easily thawed.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Kimi wa kozu tamatama miyuru warawa o ba ike tomo ima wa iwaji to omou ka
You yourself never come; and now do you mean never again to tell the boy I see now and then either to go or to live?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Kotowari ya ima wa korosaji kono warawa shinobi no tsuma no iu koto ni yori
You are right; I will not kill this boy now, for I will heed the words of my secret love.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Hito shirenu kokoro ni kakete shinobu o ba wasuru to ya omou tamakura no sode
I hold it dear in my heart, unknown to anyone; do you think I have forgotten that sleeve which pillowed me?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Mono mo iwade yaminamashikaba kakete dani omoiidemashi ya tamakura no sode
Had I said nothing at all and let it end there, would you ever have recalled, even in passing, the sleeve that pillowed you?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Miru ya kimi sayo uchifukete yama no ha ni kuma naku sumeru aki no yo no tsuki
Are you watching, my love? Late in the night, over the mountain rim, the autumn moon is shining, clear and without a shadow.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Fukenuran to omou mono kara nerarenedo nakanaka nareba tsuki wa shi mo mizu
I knew the night had grown late and still I could not sleep; yet since looking would only make it harder, I did not look at the moon.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Koto no ha fukaku narinikeru kana
How deep they have grown, the colors of these leaves, and the words we share.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Shiratsuyu no hakanaku oku to mishi hodo ni
While I watched the white dew settle so faintly and fleetingly on the leaves...
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Kazuragi no kami mo sa koso wa omoikeme kumeji ni watasu hashitanaki made
The god of Kazuragi must surely have felt just this, so ashamed to be seen by day while building the bridge over the Kume road.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu