Mutsugoto o katariawasemu hito mogana - Genji Monogatari(English Translation & Meaning)

むつごとを語りあはせむ人もがな
うき世の夢もなかばさむやと

Roma-ji: Mutsugoto o katariawasemu hito mogana
ukiyo no yume mo nakaba samu ya to
English Translation: If only there were
someone to share close talk with,
that the dream I have
of this wretched world might come
half awake from itself here
Meaning: If only there were someone to talk softly with, so that this dream of a wretched world might half wake from itself.
Commentary: Part One: Akashi

　Arriving at the hillside house and finding her unwilling to respond, Genji went on speaking to her at length. This poem came then, less a declaration of love than a request for someone to share a mind with. She answered, and that night they became lovers.

　"Mutsugoto" is the easy talk of people close to each other. "Mogana" expresses a wish. "Uki yo" is this wretched world, meaning his life in exile. "That the dream might half wake" figures days in a place of banishment that hardly feel real. Though it is a lover's poem, its shape is a plea for rescue from solitude, and Genji's whole condition in this period is its content.
Author: Murasaki Shikibu
Source: Genji Monogatari
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