移し植ゑて思ひ乱れぬ女郎花
憂き世を背く草の庵に
憂き世を背く草の庵に
- Roma-ji
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Utsushi uete omoi midarenu ominaeshi
ukiyo o somuku kusa no io ni - English Translation
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Moved and planted here,
the maiden flower is not
troubled in her heart—
not in this hut of grass, where
the bitter world is turned from
- Meaning
- Moved and planted here, the maiden flower is troubled by nothing, in this hut of grass where the bitter world has been turned away from.
- Commentary
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Part Three: Tenarai
Since Ukifune would not answer, the nun replied to the Captain in her place. The girl has already been moved to a hut of grass where the world is renounced, she says, and her heart is not to be troubled: a mild way of turning the offer aside. For all that, the nun herself wished the match, and went on welcoming the Captain's visits and putting Ukifune out of countenance.
Utsushi uete is to transplant a flower, said of Ukifune moved from Uji to Ono. Omoi midarenu is that her heart is not disturbed. "A hut of grass" is the poor dwelling of one who has left the world. She takes his maiden flower and answers that it is not a flower of the fields but of the hermitage, and so builds a reason for refusing.
- Author
- Murasaki Shikibu
- Source
- Genji Monogatari
- Other
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- Though I go on thus, circling through a bitter world, who in the city of the moon will ever know that I am living at all
- Do not bend to the wind of that field of the dead, O maiden flower: I will rope you round as mine, far though the road may be
- I came here seeking the voice of the pine cricket, and once again I have lost my way among the dew of the bush-clover fields
- Do not lay the blame on a house overgrown with creeper, for a hunting robe that has come here parting the dew of the autumn fields