Uchisutete tabi yuku hito wa sa mo araba are mata naki mono ni kimi shi omowaba - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

打すてゝ旅行人はさもあらはあれ
又なきものに君し思はは

Roma-ji: Uchisutete tabi yuku hito wa sa mo araba are mata naki mono ni kimi shi omowaba
English Translation: As for one who leaves me
behind to set out on her journey,
let her go as she will,
so long as you think of me
as one beyond compare
Meaning: As for the one who leaves me behind and sets out on her journey, let her go, so long as you think of me as one beyond all others.
Commentary: 24 For One Departing Afar

After their exchange of jottings about the dawn moon, at the end of the ninth month a letter came from the prince. After mentioning how long it had been, he wrote: "This is a strange request, but someone with whom I have secretly exchanged words is going far away, and I want to send a single touching poem. Whatever you write seems to have that quality, so please compose one for me." Izumi Shikibu thought him rather pleased with himself, but to say she could not oblige would seem too clever by half, so she answered only that she could hardly refuse his command, and composed a poem.
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 text does not name the person who was going away.
Izumi Shikibu's poem written on his behalf, "Oshimaruru namida ni kage wa tomaranan kokoro mo shirazu aki wa yuku tomo," arrived with "Kimi o okite izuchi yukuran ware dani mo ukiyo no naka ni shiite koso fure" in the margin. The prince wrote that to say she had read his feelings exactly would make it look as if he knew the woman well, and that she seemed to be guessing far too much, and he returned this poem.
After the poem he added, "With that, I could live on well enough." Then the tenth month came, and after the tenth day the prince visited her and spent a night of early winter showers with her.

The opening lines mean "the one who casts me off and sets out on a journey," answering her "where could she be going?" The third line, "let it be so," expresses indifference.
The lower verses mean "if you think of me as one beyond compare," with an intensifying particle and a hypothetical conditional. Let the departing woman go, he says, so long as she treasures him; meeting squarely the feelings she had confided, he tells her that his heart, too, is with her.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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