Nenuru yo no tsuki wa miru ya to kesa wa shimo okiite matedo tou hito mo nashi - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

ねぬるよの月はみるやとけさはしも
起ゐてまてと問人もなし

Roma-ji: Nenuru yo no tsuki wa miru ya to kesa wa shimo okiite matedo tou hito mo nashi
English Translation: "Did you see the moon
last night?"—this morning, frost-white,
I sat up waiting
for someone to come and ask,
but no one came to call
Meaning: This morning I sat up waiting for someone to ask whether I had seen last night's moon, but no one came to ask at all.
Commentary: 27 Frosty Mornings and the Page Boy

On the night of their exchange about the arm-pillow sleeve, the moon also shone very bright and clear, and Izumi Shikibu and the prince each gazed at it until dawn in their separate places. The next morning the prince was having someone ask whether his usual page boy had come, meaning to send a letter. Meanwhile Izumi Shikibu, perhaps moved by the brilliant whiteness of the frost, sent a poem first. The prince was vexed at having been forestalled.
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 page boy was the youth who carried the prince's letters to her.
The boy, handed the letter by the ill-humored prince, brought it to Izumi Shikibu and said, "He had been calling for me since before your letter came, and he scolded me for not coming until now," and took out the letter. It read, "How bright the moon was last night," followed by this poem.
Seeing that the prince had indeed written first, Izumi Shikibu was charmed that they had been of one mind, and replied with "Madoromade hitoyo nagameshi tsuki miredo okinagara shimo akashigao naru."

The opening lines mean "whether you saw the moon last night," referring to words asking if the other had watched the moon. In the third line, "shimo" is an intensifying particle that also means frost.
The lower verses mean "I sat up waiting, but no one came to ask," where "oki," rising, also echoes frost settling. Written before her frost poem arrived, the letter makes his case, through the wordplay on frost, that he too had been waiting for word from her, as a rejoinder to being forestalled.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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