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- Izumi Shikibu Nikki
Utagawaba mata uchimiji to omoedomo kokoro ni kokoro kanawazarikeri
Though I tell myself that even if I doubt you I will not reproach you again, I find my heart will not do what my heart intends.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Uramuran kokoro wa tayuru kagiri naku tanomu kimi o zo ware mo utagau
Your heart, which reproaches me without end, may never change; but it is you, on whom I rely without limit, that I too have come to doubt.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Shimogare wa wabishikarikeri akikaze no fuku ni wa ogi no otozure mo shiki
How dreary is this season of frost-withered grass; when the autumn wind blew, there was at least the rustle of the reeds, and your visits too.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Karehatete ware yori hoka ni tou hito mo arashi no kaze o ikaga kikuran
Everything has withered and drifted away, and surely no one but I asks after you; how do you hear the roaring of this storm, I wonder?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Tsurezure to kyō kazoureba toshitsuki ni kinō zo mono wa omowazarikeru
Idly counting the days today, I find that in all the months and years, it was only yesterday that I was free from sorrow.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Omou koto nakute sugushishi ototoi o kinō to kyō ni nasu yoshi mo gana
If only there were a way to turn the day before yesterday, which I passed without a care, into yesterday and today as well.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Nagusamuru kimi mo ari to wa omoedomo nao yūgure wa mono zo kanashiki
Though I know that you are there to comfort me, still, when evening falls, a vague sadness fills my heart.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Yūgure wa tare mo sa nomi zo omōyuru machiwabu kimi zo hito ni masareru
At dusk everyone feels that way; but you, weary with waiting, must feel it more deeply than anyone.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Okinagara akaseru shimo no ashita koso masareru mono wa yo ni nakarikere
Nothing in this world is harder to bear than a frosty morning after lying awake all night until the dawn.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Ware hitori omou wa omou kai mo nashi onaji kokoro ni kimi mo aranan
If I alone am the one who loves, there is no point in loving; I want you to share the very same heart.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Kimi wa kimi ware wa ware tomo hedatereba kokorogokoro ni aran mono ka wa
Even if we draw a line between us, saying you are you and I am I, how could our hearts ever truly be two separate hearts?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Taeshi koro taene to omoishi tama no o o kimi ni yori mata oshimaruru kana
When we were apart, I wished my thread of life would simply snap; now, because of you, I find myself holding it dear once more.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Tama no o wa taen mono ka wa chigiriteshi nagaki kokoro ni musubikometeki
How could your thread of life ever break? I have bound it fast within the long, enduring heart with which we made our vow.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Kamiyo yori furihatenikeru yuki naredo kyō wa koto ni mo mezurashiki kana
This snow has been falling since the age of the gods until it has grown old, yet today it seems more wondrous than ever.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Hatsuyuki to izure no fuyu mo mishi mama ni mezurashige naki mi nomi furitsutsu
Each winter I have looked upon the first snow, and all the while only I, so commonplace, keep growing old as it falls.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Itomanami kimasazu wa ware yukan fumi tsukururan michi o shirabaya
If you have no time to come, then I will go to you; I wish I knew the road you tread, where they say you are composing verse.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu