Kazuragi no kami mo sa koso wa omoikeme kumeji ni watasu hashitanaki made - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

葛城の神もさこそは思ひけめ
くめちにわたすはしたなき迄

Roma-ji: Kazuragi no kami mo sa koso wa omoikeme kumeji ni watasu hashitanaki made
English Translation: The god of Kazuragi
must surely have felt the same,
building the stone bridge
along the Kume road, ashamed
to be seen by the light of day
Meaning: The god of Kazuragi must surely have felt just this, so ashamed to be seen by day while building the bridge over the Kume road.
Commentary: 30 The God of Katsuragi

The prince, who had visited disguised in a woman's carriage, exchanged a linked verse with Izumi Shikibu about the spindle-tree leaves as he left, and was delighted anew to find her a woman of feeling. She, for her part, embarrassed at being seen by daylight for the first time, had been dazzled by the splendor of the prince in his informal robe.
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 next day a letter came from the prince saying that her dismayed look the day before had been both painful and touching, and Izumi Shikibu sent back this poem, adding, "I felt hopelessly ashamed."
The prince replied at once with "Okonai no shirushi mo araba kazuragi no hashitanashi tote sate ya yaminan." After that he visited more often than before, and she felt her loneliness consoled beyond measure.
The god of Kazuragi figures in a legend in which the ascetic En no Gyōja ordered Hitokotonushi, the god of Mount Kazuragi, to build a stone bridge from Kazuragi to Kinpusen in Yoshino; ashamed of his ugly face, the god worked only by night, and so the bridge was never finished.

The opening lines mean "the god of Kazuragi too must have felt so," likening herself to the god of the legend who was ashamed to be seen by day. The third line means "must have thought," sealed by an emphatic construction ending in an auxiliary of past conjecture.
The lower verses mean "so ashamed, as he built the bridge across the Kume road," where "hashi" is both the bridge being built and the start of "hashitanaki," ashamed or awkward. Overlaying her embarrassment at being seen by daylight for the first time with the shame of the legendary god, she answers his remark about her dismayed look with wit.
Author: Izumi Shikibu
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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