世の常に思ひやすらむ露深き
道の笹原分けて来つるも
道の笹原分けて来つるも
- Roma-ji
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Yo no tsune ni omoi ya suramu tsuyu fukaki
michi no sasahara wakete kitsuru mo - English Translation
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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
- Meaning
- Do you take it for an ordinary matter that I came parting the bamboo grass on a road so deep in dew?
- Commentary
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Part Three: Agemaki
Written in the morning-after letter, on the day after Niou and Naka no Kimi were joined. He urges the hardship of the night road from the capital to Uji as proof that his feeling is out of the common. After this he tries to keep coming, but his mother, the Akashi Empress, forbids him to leave the palace, and he cannot.
Yo no tsune ni is as a common thing. The dew-soaked field of bamboo grass gives the length and difficulty of the road to Uji. To urge the distance of the way is standard in a morning-after letter, but the remoteness of Uji itself already hints at the insecurity of the match.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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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
- 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
- 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
- Though our hearts may pass between us without a screen, I would have you not speak of sleeves that have grown soft with long wearing, one on one