Yoigoto ni kaeshi wa suredo ikade nao akatsukioki wa kimi ni nasaseji - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

よひことに返しはすれといかて猶
曉おきは君になさせし

Roma-ji: Yoigoto ni kaeshi wa suredo ikade nao akatsukioki wa kimi ni nasaseji
English Translation: Each night, it may be,
I shall send you home again, yet
by some means, still I
will never make you rise at dawn
and go your way in sorrow
Meaning: I may send you home each evening, but somehow, still, I will never make you rise before dawn and leave.
Commentary: 12 A Place No One Could See

After their exchange about the flood, the prince was having an incense burner brought to perfume his robes for a visit to Izumi Shikibu when his nurse, the Chamberlain's Nurse, came and admonished him sternly. "Where are you going? People are talking terribly about this. She is not a woman of any great standing. If you wish to have her serve you, summon her to the residence and employ her there. These frivolous secret outings are most unseemly. Besides, I hear that many men visit her. Some unpleasantness may come of it. All this mischief starts with that officer of the Right Palace Guards. It was he who escorted the late prince about as well. What good ever comes of wandering about in the middle of the night? I shall report those who attend you on such outings to the great lord. The world seems likely to change any day now. There are matters the late lord arranged; until you have seen how things turn out, you should give up such outings." The prince answered only, "Where would I go? I am bored, and I amuse myself with trifles. It is nothing for people to make a fuss about." He thought her strangely cool, yet by no means a woman to be taken lightly, and considered bringing her to his residence, but feared that would only make the talk worse; while he hesitated, his letters grew infrequent. When at last he came, he apologized for his unwilling neglect and said, "Just for tonight there is a place where no one will see us. Let us talk at our ease," and had the carriage drawn up and helped her in. Late at night he brought the carriage to a deserted gallery and had her alight; they talked under the bright moon, and at dawn he sent her home in the carriage. On the way home she thought what a strange outing it had been and wondered what people would think, yet she kept recalling his extraordinary figure in the dawn light.
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. The Chamberlain's Nurse is the name of the woman who had nursed and raised the prince.
After spending the night with her in that secluded place and sending her home at dawn, the prince sent this poem, adding, "It was painful."
Izumi Shikibu replied with "Asatsuyu ni okuru omoi ni kurabureba tada ni kaeran yoi wa masareri." The prince wrote back, "I will never hear of such a thing. Tonight the direction is closed, so I will come to fetch you," and that night he came for her by carriage again.

The opening lines mean "though I may send you home every evening," with an adversative particle, and the third line means "somehow, still."
The lower verses mean "I will not make you rise at dawn," with an auxiliary of negative will. Ordinarily it was the visiting man who rose at dawn and left; but this time it was she who had been sent home by carriage at daybreak, and he does not want her to bear that sorrow. The poem carries both tenderness at their reversed roles and his wish to meet again.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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