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- Izumi Shikibu Nikki
Waga yado ni tazunete kimase fumi tsukuru michi mo oshien ai mo mirubeku
Come and find me at my house; I will teach you the way of composing verse, and so we may meet as well.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Sayuru yo no kazu kaku shigi wa ware nare ya iku asashimo o okite mitsuran
Am I the snipe that beats its wings countless times on these freezing nights? How many mornings have I risen, sleepless, to look upon the frost?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Yuki mo furi ame mo furinuru kono koro o asashimo to nomi okiite wa miru
Though snow has fallen and rain as well these days, all I see as I sit up sleepless is the morning frost.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Naozari no aramashigoto ni yomosugara
All night long, over mere idle talk of what might one day happen...
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Otsuru namida wa ame to koso fure
...the tears that fall from my eyes come pouring down as rain.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Utsutsu nite omoeba iwan kata mo nashi koyoi no koto o yume ni nasabaya
If I think of it as real, there are no words for it; I wish I could turn everything that happened tonight into a dream.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Shikabakari chigirishi mono o sadame naki sa wa yo no tsune ni omoinase to ya
After all the vows we made, are you telling me to think of it as nothing more than the way of this inconstant world?
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Utsutsu to wa omowazaranan nenuru yo no yume ni mietsuru uki kotodomo o
Please do not think of them as real, all the sorrowful things that appeared to you in a dream on the night we lay together.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Hodo shiranu inochi bakari zo sadame naki chigirishi koto wa suminoe no matsu
Only life, whose length no one can know, is uncertain; the vows we made stand firm as the pines of Suminoe.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Ana koishi ima mo miteshika yamagatsu no kakiho ni ouru yamato nadeshiko
Ah, how I long for you; if only I could see you now, my wild pink growing by the hedge of a mountain cottage.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Koishiku wa kite mo miyo kashi chihayaburu kami no isamuru michi naranaku ni
If you long for me, then come and see me; it is hardly a road the gods have forbidden.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Aumichi wa kami no isame ni aranedomo nori no yomogi ni oreba tatanu zo
It is true the road to meeting you is not forbidden by the gods; but seated as I am at the teaching of the Law, I cannot rise and leave.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Ware saraba susumite yukan kimi wa tada nori no mushiro o hiromu bakari zo
Then I will be the one to come forward and go to you; all you need do is spread wide the seat of the Buddha's Law.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Yuki fureba kigi no konoha mo haru narade oshinabe ume no hana zo sakeru
Now that the snow has fallen, plum blossoms have bloomed everywhere on the leaves of the trees, though it is not yet spring.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi
Ume wa haya sakinikeri tote oreba chiru hana to zo yuki no furu wa miekeru
Thinking the plum had already bloomed, I broke off the branch, and it scattered; truly, the falling snow had looked just like flowers.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Izumi Shikibu
Fuyu no yo wa koishiki koto ni me mo awade koromo katashiki ake zo shinikeru
On this winter night, longing for you, I could not close my eyes, and lying alone on half my robe, I watched the night turn to dawn.
Izumi Shikibu Nikki - Prince Atsumichi