Madoromade kumoi no kari no ne o kiku wa kokorozukara no waza ni zo arikeru - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

まとろまて雲井の鴈の音を聞は
心つからの業にそありける

Roma-ji: Madoromade kumoi no kari no ne o kiku wa kokorozukara no waza ni zo arikeru
English Translation: Lying without sleep,
hearing the cries of the wild geese
high among the clouds—
that, it seems, is something
of your own heart's making
Meaning: Lying awake listening to the wild geese crying among the clouds turns out to be something of your own heart's making.
Commentary: 23 The Dawn Moon and the Jotted Verses

After the twentieth of the ninth month, waking to the dawn moon, the prince thought how long it had been since they had met and that she too must be watching this moon. Taking only his usual page boy, he went and had him knock at her gate. Izumi Shikibu happened to be lying awake, turning many things over in her mind; lately, perhaps because of the season, she had felt more forlorn than usual and given to melancholy. Wondering who it could be, she tried to wake the woman sleeping beside her to go and ask, but the woman would not get up. When at last she did, she stumbled about bumping into things, and meanwhile the knocking stopped. Had he gone home? He must think her a sound sleeper, she thought regretfully, and wondered who else had been lying awake as she was. The woman finally went out but found no one, and grumbled, "You must have imagined it. Waking people in the middle of the night," before going back to sleep. Izumi Shikibu stayed up gazing at the misty sky until dawn, and when it grew light she began writing down the thoughts that had come to her in those early hours. Just then a letter came from the prince as 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.
The prince wrote this poem in answer to "Madoromade aware ikuyo ni narinuran tada karigane o kiku waza ni shite" in her jottings.
It was sent to her at once as one of five poems answering each piece in her jottings.

The first line repeats the opening of her poem exactly. The second and third lines mean "to hear the cries of the geese in the cloudy sky," answering her "hearing the wild geese."
The lower verses mean "it was something of your own heart's doing," the key word meaning of one's own accord, sealed by an emphatic construction. If she lies awake hearing the geese, he says, it is her own fault for not opening the gate, hinting at the night before and teasingly turning her lament back on her.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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