Shinoburan mono to mo shirade ono ga tada mi o shiru ame to omoikeru kana - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

忍ふらん物ともしらてをのかたゝ
みをしる雨と思ひける哉

Roma-ji: Shinoburan mono to mo shirade ono ga tada mi o shiru ame to omoikeru kana
English Translation: Never did I know
it fell out of your longing;
I thought it only
a rain that falls to make me know
my own unhappy lot
Meaning: Not knowing that this rain fell from your longing for me, I thought it was only the rain that teaches me how poor my lot is.
Commentary: 9 Gazing into the Early-Summer Rain

Around the time the prince's visits grew rare, the rain fell day after day and the hours dragged. Izumi Shikibu gazed into a sky without a break in the clouds and brooded endlessly on what would become of the two of them. Many men seemed eager to court her, but she cared nothing for them now; people would surely gossip, she thought, but one must first be alive for that to matter, and so she let the days pass.
The woman is Izumi Shikibu, daughter of Ōe no Masamune and, as the wife of Tachibana no Michisada, Governor of Izumi, mother of Koshikibu no Naishi. The Prince of the Dazaifu is Prince Atsumichi, fourth son of Emperor Reizei, so called because he served as Governor-General of the Dazaifu.
With the words "How are you bearing the tedium of the rain?" the prince's "Ōkata ni samidaruru to ya omouran kimi koiwataru kyō no nagame o" arrived. Charmed by a letter that never missed the moment, and being in a pensive mood herself, Izumi Shikibu wrote this poem.
She then turned the paper over and added "Fureba yo no itodo uki mi no shiraruru o kyō no nagame ni mizu masaranan."
The source poem is by Ariwara no Narihira in the fourth Love section of the Kokin Wakashū: since it is hard to ask whether you love me or not, the rain that teaches me my own lot falls ever harder.

The opening lines mean "not knowing it was out of your longing," with an auxiliary of present conjecture and a negative connective. Answering his "longing for you," she says she never knew the rain was the rain of his love.
The remaining lines mean "I simply thought it the rain that makes me know my own lot," closing in an exclamation. Borrowing the source poem's "rain that teaches one's lot," she says she had seen it as rain reminding her how unfortunate she was to receive no visits, rejoicing in his feelings while quietly conveying her loneliness until now.
Author: Izumi Shikibu
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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