しるべせし我やかへりて惑ふべき
心もゆかぬ明けぐれの道
心もゆかぬ明けぐれの道
- Roma-ji
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Shirube seshi ware ya kaerite madoubeki
kokoro mo yukanu akegure no michi - English Translation
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Am I, who served as
guide, the one to lose his way
coming back again,
on this road in the half dark
where my heart has not gone through
- Meaning
- Am I, who served as guide, the one to lose his way returning along this road in the half dark, with my heart unsatisfied?
- Commentary
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Part Three: Agemaki
Kaoru brought Niou to Uji and led him to Naka no Kimi. He himself passed the night near Oigimi and got nothing. At dawn, with his mind still unsettled, he spoke this poem, and she answered. From this night the fortunes of the two sisters begin to move fast.
Shirube is the guide, the part he had played for Niou. Kaerite is "on the contrary" with kaeru, to return, sounding through it. Kokoro mo yukanu is to be unsatisfied, and yukanu, not going, belongs with the road. A man who works for another and is left with nothing himself is set into the picture of a road in the half dark.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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- Fencing off the wide field where the maidenflowers have come into bloom, is it with so small a heart that you rope it as your own
- The maidenflowers of Asa Field in the deep mist of the morning: only the one who has set his heart on them ever sees
- Think, then, of a heart that spends its days in the dark on this side and that, if you go astray upon a road no one sent you down
- Do you take it for an ordinary matter— that I made my way parting the bamboo grass on a road so deep in the dew