後にまたあひ見むことを思はなむ
この世の夢に心惑はで
この世の夢に心惑はで
- Roma-ji
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Nochi ni mata aimimu koto o omowanamu
kono yo no yume ni kokoro madowade - English Translation
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Think of it, that we
shall look upon each other
again hereafter,
and do not let your heart be
confused by this world's dreaming
- Meaning
- Think of it, that we shall look upon each other again hereafter, and do not let your heart be confused by the dream of this world.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Ukifune
This stood in the last letter she sent to her mother. Knowing that they would not meet again in this world, she asks her to hold to the thought of a meeting in the next. Chujo no Kimi was the one person in Ukifune's life who valued her for herself, and that these should be the words of parting sent to her gives the poem its weight. Directly after it, Ukifune goes toward the Uji river.
Nochi ni mata is again in the life to come, the Buddhist form of a wish to meet hereafter. "The dream of this world" is the present life, fleeting as a dream. Kokoro madowade is without letting the heart be thrown into confusion. The daughter is calming the mother, the usual order reversed, and the quiet grief of the poem lies in the fact that the one about to die is the steadier of the two.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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- Though, worn out with grief, I throw this body away, what troubles me is that a bitter name will be set adrift upon my shade
- If I do not leave even this husk behind me in the bitter world, you too will hold it against me, with no grave left to mark
- To the dying fall of the temple bell, add the sound of my own voice, and carry word to her that my life in the world is done
- Do you too weep with the muffled voice, if your heart runs together with that bird of the road of death, whose cry is of no avail