いたづらに分けつる道の露しげみ
昔おぼゆる秋の空かな
昔おぼゆる秋の空かな
- Roma-ji
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Itazura ni waketsuru michi no tsuyu shigemi
mukashi oboyuru aki no sora kana - English Translation
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The dew lay so thick
on the road I parted through
for nothing that the
autumn sky brings the old days
back to me as I look up
- Meaning
- The dew lay so thick on the road I parted through for nothing that this autumn sky brings back the old days to me.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Yadorigi
Visiting Naka no Kimi, Kaoru could not hold himself in and caught at her sleeve, but seeing that she was with child he checked himself and went away. He sent this the next day. The night that had come to nothing he puts into the figure of a road wet with dew. She let it pass, but the scent of his that had passed into her sleeve was to raise Niou's suspicion later.
Itazura ni is to no purpose, said of a wish not fulfilled. "The dew lay thick on the road I parted through" is a path through grass heavy with dew, and the dew hints at tears. Mukashi oboyuru is the recollection of the days when they had spoken together at Uji. Behind the mild images of dew and an autumn sky lie a longing he could not hold and the regret that followed it.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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- Look where I will, the world gives us no leave—and yet the name of having grown used to the barrier river is a thing to grieve
- It may not look deep where the surface can be seen, and yet, in the bed of the barrier river, does the current ever fail
- The scent that has passed into a sleeve grown used to another man—it has gone into me deeply, and I have resented it
- I had put my trust in a robe between us worn until it was known— and is it over so slight a thing that we come apart