Kesa no ma wa ima wa hinuran yume bakari nuru to mietsuru tamakura no sode - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

今朝のまは今はひぬらんゆめ計
ぬると見えつる手枕の袖

Roma-ji: Kesa no ma wa ima wa hinuran yume bakari nuru to mietsuru tamakura no sode
English Translation: By this morning's hour
surely it has dried by now,
that sleeve which seemed
only as wet as in a dream,
the sleeve that pillowed me
Meaning: By this morning it must surely have dried, the sleeve that pillowed me, which seemed only as faintly wet as in a dream.
Commentary: 25 The Sleeve Beneath My Head

In the tenth month, after the tenth day, the prince came to Izumi Shikibu. The inner rooms were dark and eerie, so they lay down near the veranda, and he spoke to her of every tender thing, and his words were not in vain. Looking out, she saw the moon clouded over and early winter showers falling, as though the scene had been deliberately arranged to be moving. Her troubled heart felt strangely chilled. Watching her, the prince thought tenderly, "People say only bad things about her, yet how strange: here she is, like this." She lay pretending to sleep, lost in troubled thoughts, and the prince gently roused her.
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.
Even when the prince offered "Shigure ni mo tsuyu ni mo arade nutaru yo wa ayashiku nururu tamakura no sode" on that showery night, Izumi Shikibu could not answer and only wept. Saying jokingly that she should test whether he would ever forget "the sleeve that pillowed you," he left, and the next morning wrote, "How are you at this moment?" She sent this poem in reply.
The prince was charmed that she herself had taken up the arm-pillow sleeve after he had vowed not to forget it, and replied with "Yume bakari namida ni nuru to mitsuramedo hoshi zo kanetsuru tamakura no sode."

The opening lines mean "by this morning it must have dried by now," with a verb meaning to dry and auxiliaries of completion and present conjecture.
The remaining lines mean "the arm-pillow sleeve that seemed wet only as in a dream," where "as in a dream" means the slightest amount and also echoes the fleetingness of a night's dream. Taking up his "wet sleeve of the arm-pillow," she modestly says her tears were so few that the sleeve must already be dry, while quietly asking whether his heart too might already have grown distant.
Author: Izumi Shikibu
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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