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- Izumi Shikibu Nikki
Okonai no shirushi mo araba kazuragi no hashitanashi tote sate ya yaminan
If my devotions have any power at all, would the god of Kazuragi really leave the work unfinished simply because he felt ashamed?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Waga ue wa chidori mo tsugeji ōtori no hane ni mo shimo wa sa ya wa okikeru
Not even the plovers would tell how I fare; and could the frost ever have settled so on the wings of the great bird?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Tsuki mo mite neniki to iishi hito no ue ni okishimo seji o ōtori no goto
Surely no frost would settle, as on the great bird's wings, upon one who said she had looked at the moon and gone to sleep.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Kannazuki yo ni furinitaru shigure to ya kyō no nagame o akazu miruran
Do you take it for the same old showers of the tenth month, the kind the world has always known, as you gaze tirelessly at today's long rain?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Shigure ka mo nani ni nuretaru tamoto zo to sadamekanete zo ware mo nagamuru
Was it the winter showers, or something else, that wet my sleeves? Unable to tell, I too gaze out in brooding thought.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Momijiba wa yowa no shigure ni araji kashi kinō yamabe o mitaramashikaba
Surely not a single crimson leaf is left after the night's showers. If only we had gone to see the mountainside yesterday.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Soyo ya soyo nado te yamabe o mizariken kesa wa kuyuredo nan no kai nashi
Yes, yes, just so. Why didn't we go to see the mountainside? This morning I regret it, but it is all to no avail.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Arashi to wa omou mono kara momijiba no chiri ya nokoreru isa tazune min
Though I think the storm can have left none, perhaps some crimson leaves still linger on the branches; come, let us go and look.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Utsurowanu tokiwa no yama mo momiji seba isa kashi yukite nodonodo to mimu
If even the evergreen mountains, which never change, should turn crimson, then by all means let us go and view them at our leisure.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Takasebune haya kogiide yo sawaru koto sashikaerinishi ashima waketari
Little river boat, row out quickly now; the reeds that hindered you, where you poled about and turned back, have all been parted.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Yamabe ni wa kuruma ni norite yukubeki o takase no fune wa ikaga yorubeki
To the mountainside one should go by carriage; how, then, am I to bring a river boat alongside?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Momijiba no mi ni kuru made mo chirazaraba takase no fune no ikaga kogaren
If the crimson leaves would only stay unfallen until you came to see them, why would this river boat be rowing out in such longing?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Nenuru yo no nezame no yume ni naraite zo fushimi no sato o kesa wa okitsuru
As if grown accustomed to the dream of waking from our night together, this morning I rose and left Fushimi village, where we lay and dreamed.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Sono yo yori waga mi no ue wa shirareneba suzuro ni aranu tabine o zo suru
Since that night I no longer know what will become of me, and so I find myself sleeping in lodgings I never dreamed of.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Ima no ma ni kimi kimasanan koishi tote na mo aru mono o ware yukan ya wa
I wish you would come to me this very moment; however much I long for you, how could I go to you myself, with my name to think of?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Kimi ima wa na no tatsu koto o omoikeru hito kara kakaru kokoro to zo miru
So now you have begun to worry about rumors spoiling your name; I see that it depends on who the man is.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi