Waga yue ni tsuki o nagamu to tsugetsureba makoto ka to mi ni idete kinikeri - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

我ゆへに月を詠むとつけつれは
まことかと見に出てきにけり

Roma-ji: Waga yue ni tsuki o nagamu to tsugetsureba makoto ka to mi ni idete kinikeri
English Translation: Since you sent to tell me
that it was because of me
you gazed at the moon,
wondering if it could be true,
I have come out here to see
Meaning: Since you told me you were gazing at the moon because of me, I have come out to see whether it was true.
Commentary: 16 Gazing at the Moon from a Ruined House

After the misunderstanding over the carriage at her gate, the prince's visits had grown rare. On a moonlit night, lying down, Izumi Shikibu could not help gazing at the moon, murmuring "how enviable," and she sent the prince "Tsuki o mite aretaru yado ni nagamu to wa mi ni konu made mo tare ni tsugeyo to." She had her privy maid hand it to the officer of the Right Palace Guards with the words "Please come." The prince was conversing with his people, but when they withdrew and he was about to go in, the officer presented it, and the prince said, "Make ready the usual carriage," and set out. As she sat near the veranda gazing at the moon, someone came in; she lowered the blind, and saw that he was not dressed as she was used to seeing him, yet his well-worn informal robe looked all the more charming. Without a word he placed a letter on his fan and passed it in, saying, "Your messenger left so quickly," and she held out her own fan to take it. The prince strolled through the lovely garden plantings, murmuring "Is one but dew upon the grass?" with great elegance. Coming near, he said, "I will go home tonight. I came to see whom you are meeting in secret. Tomorrow is a day of abstinence, and it will look odd if I am not at home," and made to leave.
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 privy maid was a girl who served at menial tasks such as cleaning chamber pots. The officer of the Right Palace Guards was the prince's close attendant who accompanied him and carried his letters.
This is the poem the prince wrote in answer to her "Tsuki o mite aretaru yado ni nagamu to wa mi ni konu made mo tare ni tsugeyo to." Because her messenger had left at once, the prince came himself and passed in the letter bearing this poem on his fan.
Izumi Shikibu read the poem after he had gone, raising the blind. She was glad that he thought of her so kindly, and since he seemed to have heard her described as a very bad sort of woman, she hoped he would change his mind. The prince, for his part, had come to think her a woman worth knowing, a consolation for idle days, but rumors about her would soon reach his ears.

The first three lines mean "since you told me you gaze at the moon because of me," taking up her "gaze" and "tell" directly, with a perfective auxiliary and a conditional of fact.
The lower verses mean "I have come out to see whether it is true," answering her "even if you will not come to see" by saying that he has come, with auxiliaries of completion and exclamation. The very conceit that the writer of the poem stands there in person is itself the reply, answering her poem in both word and deed.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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