Takasebune haya kogiide yo sawaru koto sashikaerinishi ashima waketari - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

高瀨舟はや漕出よさはること
さし歸りにしあしまわけたり

Roma-ji: Takasebune haya kogiide yo sawaru koto sashikaerinishi ashima waketari
English Translation: Little river boat,
row out quickly now; the reeds
that blocked your passage,
where you poled away and turned back,
have all been cleared aside
Meaning: Little river boat, row out quickly now; the reeds that hindered you, where you poled about and turned back, have all been parted.
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.
After their exchange about viewing the leaves, Izumi Shikibu remembered that when the prince had come the other day she had told him she could not receive him because of some hindrance, and she sent this poem.
Perhaps the prince had forgotten the matter, for he replied with "Yamabe ni wa kuruma ni norite yukubeki o takase no fune wa ikaga yorubeki."

The opening lines mean "little river boat, row out quickly," the boat being a flat-bottomed craft for shallow waters, here standing for the prince's visit, with an imperative. The third line means "the hindrance," also suggesting a boat caught among the reeds.
The lower verses mean "the reeds where you poled and turned back have been parted," where "sashi" is the poling of a boat, with an auxiliary of continuing state. The other day there had been a hindrance and he had had to go home, but now it has been cleared away, so please come soon; linking boat and reeds as associated words, she indirectly urges him to visit.
Author: Izumi Shikibu
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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