Seki koete kyō zo tou to ya hito wa shiru omoi taesenu kokorozukai o - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

關越てけふそとふとや人はしる
思ひたえせぬこゝろ遣ひを

Roma-ji: Seki koete kyō zo tou to ya hito wa shiru omoi taesenu kokorozukai o
English Translation: Do you know, I wonder,
that crossing the barrier today
I come to call on you,
and of the caring in my heart
whose longing never ends?
Meaning: Do you know that today, crossing the barrier, I have come to ask after you, out of a devotion that never ceases?
Commentary: 21 The Pilgrimage to Ishiyama

When the eighth month came, Izumi Shikibu set out for Ishiyama Temple to ease her idleness, meaning to stay about seven days. Thinking that he had not written for a long time, the prince was about to send a letter when the page boy told him, "I went the other day, but they say she is at Ishiyama Temple these days." "Then today is already over," said the prince. "Go tomorrow morning." The boy came to Ishiyama with the prince's letter. Even before the Buddha, Izumi Shikibu's heart was elsewhere; she longed only for the capital and was saddened to think that such a pilgrimage was a sign of how much her life had changed, and she prayed earnestly to the Buddha. Just then she sensed someone below the railing, and looking down in surprise, she saw the page boy. Moved that he had come to so unexpected a place, she had someone ask why, and he held out a letter. She opened it more eagerly than usual.
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. Ishiyama Temple is a sacred site of Kannon in the province of Ōmi, in present-day Ōtsu, Shiga, reached from the capital by crossing the Ōsaka Barrier.
The prince's letter read, "You have withdrawn deep into the mountains in devotion. Why did you not tell me? Even if you do not think me a hindrance to your path, it hurts to be left behind," followed by this poem and the question "When do you intend to come down from the mountain?"
Touched that he had sought her out so deliberately, when even nearby his letters came so rarely, Izumi Shikibu replied with "Aumichi wa wasurenu meri to mishi hodo ni seki uchikoete tou hito wa tare."

The opening lines mean "that crossing the barrier I call today," referring to his sending a messenger past the Ōsaka Barrier, which divided the capital from Ōmi, as far as Ishiyama, with emphatic and interrogative particles leading into the third line, "do you know?"
The lower verses mean "my devotion, whose longing never ends," placed last by inversion. Though he reproaches her for leaving the capital without a word, he shows the sincerity that sent a letter even across the barrier, trying to draw her heart back to him.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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