Asahi sashi ima wa kiyubeki shimo naredo uchitokegataki sora no keshiki zo - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

朝日さし今はきゆへき霜なれと
打とけかたき空のけしきそ

Roma-ji: Asahi sashi ima wa kiyubeki shimo naredo uchitokegataki sora no keshiki zo
English Translation: The morning sun shines,
and the frost should melt away now,
that is true, and yet
the sky still wears a look
that will not easily thaw
Meaning: The morning sun is shining and the frost should melt away now, yet the sky of my mood is not so easily thawed.
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.
Izumi Shikibu's "Shimo no ue ni asahi sasu meri ima wa haya uchitokenikeru keshiki misenan" arrived with the words "The boy seems quite crestfallen." The prince wrote, "You looked so pleased with yourself this morning that it is hateful. I could kill this boy," and sent back this poem.
Izumi Shikibu wrote, "So you really mean to kill him," and replied with "Kimi wa kozu tamatama miyuru warawa o ba ike tomo ima wa iwaji to omou ka."

The first three lines mean "though the morning sun shines and the frost should vanish now," answering her "the morning sun shines on the frost," with an auxiliary of expectation and an adversative particle.
The lower verses mean "the sky has a look that will not thaw," taking up her "thawed mood" and likening his own temper to the sky, closing with an emphatic particle. The frost may melt, he says, but his mood will not so easily thaw; sulking in jest, he playfully prolongs his vexation at being forestalled and enjoys their game.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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