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- Sarashina Nikki
Mirumeouru uraniarazuwa arisono namimakazouru amamoarajio
If it were not a bay where the seaweed grows—where eyes may meet—no diver would be there at all, counting the waves of that rough shore.
Yumesamete nezamenotokono ukubakari koikitotsugeyo nishieyukutsuki
Tell her, moon going west, that when I woke from the dream I longed for her until the bed I woke on was afloat with tears.
Sarashina Nikki - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Ikaniii naninitatoete kataramashi akinoyūbeno sumiyoshinoura
How am I to say it, to what shall I liken it, if I am to tell of this—an autumn evening on the bay of Sumiyoshi?
Sarashina Nikki - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Aruruumini kazeyorisakini funaideshite ishizunonamito kienamashikaba
If we had put out onto that raging sea ahead of the wind, and vanished into the waves off Ishizu—
Sarashina Nikki - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Tsukimoidede yaminikuretaru obasuteni nanitotekoyoi tazunekitsuramu
No moon has risen, and this Obasute of mine lies in darkness—why, of all nights, have you come looking for me tonight?
Sarashina Nikki - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Imawayoni arajimonotoya omouramu awarenakunaku naokosowafure
Do you suppose I am no longer in this world at all? Ah—weeping and weeping, I am living on all the same.
Sarashina Nikki - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Himamonaki namidanikumoru kokoronimo akashitomiyuru tsukinokagekana
Even to a heart clouded over with tears that never let up, this moonlight shows itself as brightness.
Sarashina Nikki - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Shigeriyuku yomogigatsuyuni sobochitsutsu hitonitowarenu neonomizonaku
Soaked through by the dew on mugwort that grows ranker by the day, and with no one coming to ask after me, I do nothing but cry aloud.
Sarashina Nikki - Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Yonotsuneno yadonoyomogio omoiyare somukihatetaru niwanokusamura
Yours is the mugwort of an ordinary house. Spare a thought instead for the thickets in the garden of one who has turned her back on the world altogether.