Yoshi ya yoshi ima wa uramiji iso ni idete kogihanareyuku ama no obune o - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

よしやよし今はうらみし磯に出て
こき離れ行海人の小舟を

Roma-ji: Yoshi ya yoshi ima wa uramiji iso ni idete kogihanareyuku ama no obune o
English Translation: Well, so be it, then;
I will not reproach you now,
little fisher's boat
that has set out from the rocky shore
and rowed itself away
Meaning: Very well, I will no longer reproach you, little fisher's boat that left the rocky shore and rowed away.
Commentary: 17 The Fisherman's Little Boat

After his moonlit visit, the prince had come to think Izumi Shikibu a woman worth knowing, a consolation for idle days. But some people told him, "These days the Minamoto Junior Captain and others are visiting her. He is said to call even in daytime," and another added, "The Minister of Military Affairs goes there too," so the prince thought her very fickle and wrote nothing for a long time. The page boy came to her house and chatted as usual with her privy maid; when the maid asked whether he had brought a letter, he said, "No. The other day he came, but he saw a carriage at the gate, so I suppose there will be no word. He seems to have heard that men visit here," and left. Hearing this, Izumi Shikibu was deeply hurt. She had not relied on the prince in any special way, but she had meant to keep writing to him as long as he thought of her now and then, and now, of all things, he had come to think this of her over something so shameful.
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 Minamoto Junior Captain refers to a junior captain of the Palace Guards of the Minamoto clan, and the Minister of Military Affairs to the head of that ministry.
As she grieved, a letter came from the prince: "Lately I have been strangely unwell and troubled. I came to you once, but the moment was always wrong and I could only go back, which made me feel quite unworthy," together with this poem.
Thinking he must have heard dreadful rumors, she felt ashamed, and though answering might seem brazen, she resolved to reply this once, with "Sode no ura ni tada waga yaku to shiotarete fune nagashitaru ama to koso nare."

The opening lines mean "so be it, I will reproach you no more," repeating a word of resignation, with an auxiliary of negative will.
The remaining lines mean "the little fisher's boat that sets out from the rocky shore and rows away," likening the woman drifting away from him to a small boat, placed last by inversion. "Urami," reproach, also echoes "ura-mi," gazing at the bay, and shore, rowing, fisher and boat form a chain of associated sea words. With irony and resignation stirred by the rumors, the poem still shows the wavering heart of a man who would not cut her off entirely.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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