かたがたにくらす心を思ひやれ
人やりならぬ道に惑はば
人やりならぬ道に惑はば
- Roma-ji
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Katagata ni kurasu kokoro o omoiyare
hitoyari naranu michi ni madowaba - English Translation
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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
- Meaning
- Think of a heart that spends its days in the dark on this side and that, if you go astray on a road no one sent you down.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Agemaki
Oigimi's reply. She asks him to consider her own state of mind, troubled by what has come of giving her sister to Niou. Refusing his suit, she still says plainly how she fears for the younger, and her difficult position is clear.
Katagata ni is on this side and that, in several directions. Kurasu is to pass one's days brooding, with kurasu, to darken, sounding through it in answer to his half dark. Hitoyari narazu is of one's own doing, not another's. If he has lost his way, she says quietly, it is by a road he chose himself.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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- The maidenflowers of Asa Field in the deep mist of the morning: only the one who has set his heart on them ever sees
- 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
- 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
- Though I do not say that we have worn the night robe until it grew soft, surely I am not without the right to a grievance