Shigure ka mo nani ni nuretaru tamoto zo to sadamekanete zo ware mo nagamuru - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

しくれかもなにゝぬれたる袂そと
定めかねてそ我も詠むる

Roma-ji: Shigure ka mo nani ni nuretaru tamoto zo to sadamekanete zo ware mo nagamuru
English Translation: Was it the showers,
or something else, I wonder,
that wet these sleeves of mine?
Unable to decide, I too
gaze out, lost in thought
Meaning: Was it the winter showers, or something else, that wet my sleeves? Unable to tell, I too gaze out in brooding thought.
Commentary: 32 The Promise to View Autumn Leaves

On the evening of their exchange on the frosty morning, the prince came and invited her: "How lovely the autumn leaves on the mountains must be now. Come, let us go and see them," and Izumi Shikibu replied, "That would be delightful." But when the day came, the prince sent word: "Today I must stay shut in for a day of abstinence, which is a great pity. Once it is over, without fail." That night the winter showers fell harder than usual, with a sound as though every leaf on the trees would be stripped away. Waking, Izumi Shikibu murmured to herself, "before the wind," and spent the rest of the night regretting that the leaves must all have fallen and wishing they had gone to see them the day before.
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. A day of abstinence was a period of staying shut indoors and keeping oneself pure in order to avoid misfortune, according to the art of yin and yang.
The next morning the prince's "Kannazuki yo ni furinitaru shigure to ya kyō no nagame o akazu miruran" arrived with the words "What a pity it was," and Izumi Shikibu sent back this poem.
Following this poem, with the words "And by the way," she added "Momijiba wa yowa no shigure ni araji kashi kinō yamabe o mitaramashikaba."

The opening lines mean "was it the showers, by what was it wet," with an interrogative particle joined to an exclamatory one, answering his "showers." The third line means "these sleeves?"
The lower verses mean "unable to decide, I too gaze out in thought," sealed by an emphatic construction. Taking up his "gazing," she answers that she cannot tell whether rain or tears have wet her sleeves, quietly conveying, through the image of tears, her loneliness at their broken promise to view the leaves.
Author: Izumi Shikibu
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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