Uki ni yori hitaya komori to omou tomo ōmi no umi wa uchiidete miyo - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

うきによりひたやこもりと思ふとも
近江の海は打出て見よ

Roma-ji: Uki ni yori hitaya komori to omou tomo ōmi no umi wa uchiidete miyo
English Translation: Though because of grief
you would shut yourself away,
hidden from the world,
the lake of Ōmi—come out
to Uchide and see it
Meaning: Even if sorrow makes you wish to shut yourself away entirely, come out to Uchide and look upon the Lake of Ōmi.
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.
In response to her "Yama nagara umi wa kogu tomo miyako e wa nani ka uchide no hama o mirubeki," the prince followed "Tazuneyuku ōsakayama no kai mo naku ōmeku bakari wasurubeshi ya wa" with "And by the way" and this poem, adding, "As the old poem says, each time sorrow comes."
Izumi Shikibu replied simply with "Sekiyama no seki to mo ararenu namida koso ōmi no umi to nagareizurame," and in the margin she added "Kokoromi ni ono ga kokoro mo kokoromimu isa miyako e to kite sasoimin."

The opening lines mean "though because of sorrow you think to shut yourself away," the phrase "hitaya komori" meaning complete seclusion. The third line is a concessive conditional.
The lower verses mean "come out and see the Lake of Ōmi," where "uchiidete" plays on her "Uchide Beach" and on "setting out" from the mountain, ending in an imperative; "Ōmi" also echoes "a self that meets." Turning her refusal to return back on her in her own words, he gently invites her not to stay hidden but to come out.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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