Mono mo iwade yaminamashikaba kakete dani omoiidemashi ya tamakura no sode - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

物もいはてやみなましかは懸てたに
思ひ出ましや手枕の袖

Roma-ji: Mono mo iwade yaminamashikaba kakete dani omoiidemashi ya tamakura no sode
English Translation: If I had said nothing
and let it end without a word,
would you ever think,
even in passing, to recall
that sleeve which pillowed you?
Meaning: Had I said nothing at all and let it end there, would you ever have recalled, even in passing, the sleeve that pillowed you?
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.
When Izumi Shikibu's "Hito shirenu kokoro ni kakete shinobu o ba wasuru to ya omou tamakura no sode" arrived, the prince sent back this poem.
After the poem he added, "So I did think as much." For two or three days after that no word came from him, and Izumi Shikibu spent sleepless nights wondering what had become of his reassuring talk of bringing her to his residence.

The opening lines mean "if it had ended without my saying anything," a counterfactual construction supposing what did not happen, with a negative connective.
The remaining lines ask "would you have recalled it even in passing, the arm-pillow sleeve?" answering her "holding it in my heart" with "even in passing," with a particle marking the least of things and a rhetorical particle. Had he not spoken of it, he teases, she would never have remembered the arm-pillow sleeve at all, while showing the depth of his own feeling as the one who first spoke the phrase.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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