Kokoromi ni ono ga kokoro mo kokoromimu isa miyako e to kite sasoimin - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

心みにをのが心もこゝろみむ
いさ都へときてさそひ見ん

Roma-ji: Kokoromi ni ono ga kokoro mo kokoromimu isa miyako e to kite sasoimin
English Translation: Just to put it to the test,
I'll test this heart of mine as well:
will you come out here
and say, "Come, to the capital,"
and try to lead me home?
Meaning: Let me put my own heart to the test as well: I will see whether you come here yourself and invite me, saying, "Come, back to the capital."
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 "Uki ni yori hitaya komori to omou tomo ōmi no umi wa uchiidete miyo" arrived, urging her to come out and see the lake. Izumi Shikibu replied with "Sekiyama no seki to mo ararenu namida koso ōmi no umi to nagareizurame," and wrote this poem in its margin.
At this unexpected invitation, the prince wished he could go if only he were able, but it was impossible. Meanwhile she came down from the mountain, so he wrote, "You told me to come and invite you, yet you left in such a hurry," and sent "Asamashi ya nori no yamaji ni irisomete miyako e isa to tare sasoiken."

The opening lines mean "as a test, my own heart too," and with "let me test it" in the third line the poem repeats the same sounds three times: test, heart, test, with an auxiliary of will.
The lower verses mean "I will see whether you come and invite me, saying, 'Come, to the capital,'" answering his imperative "come out and see" with her own "I will see." While insisting she will not leave the mountain, she hints that if he came for her, her heart might be moved, testing his sincerity and revealing that in truth she is waiting to be fetched.
Author: Izumi Shikibu
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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