Karehatete ware yori hoka ni tou hito mo arashi no kaze o ikaga kikuran - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

かれはてゝ我よりほかにとふ人も
嵐の風をいかゝきくらん

Roma-ji: Karehatete ware yori hoka ni tou hito mo arashi no kaze o ikaga kikuran
English Translation: All withered away,
with none but me to come to you
and ask how you fare,
how do you listen, I wonder,
to the roaring of the storm?
Meaning: Everything has withered and drifted away, and surely no one but I asks after you; how do you hear the roaring of this storm, I wonder?
Commentary: 35 Frost-Withered Reeds and the Storm Wind

After their exchange about doubt, the prince wrote to her constantly but seldom came. On days when the rain and wind raged, of all days, no word came from him, and Izumi Shikibu thought that he must give no thought to how the wind sounded in a house with so few people.
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.
On the day of fierce wind and rain, the prince wrote, "What a frightful wind; I worry how you are faring," and sent this poem. His letter crossed with the one she had sent, "Shimogare wa wabishikarikeri akikaze no fuku ni wa ogi no otozure mo shiki."
Learning that he had indeed been thinking of her, she was glad and amused. Later, when the prince was staying in a secluded place because of an abstinence that required him to change his lodging, his usual carriage came for her, and she went, thinking that now she would simply do whatever he said.

The first line, "all withered away," plays on reeds withered by frost and on people drifting away and no longer visiting. The second and third lines mean "no one but me to ask after you."
The lower verses ask "how do you hear the storm wind?" where "arashi" means both "storm" and "there will be none" who visit, with an auxiliary of present conjecture. Though it crossed her poem lamenting the lack of word on a stormy day, it shows that at that very moment he was hearing the same wind and thinking of her, revealing how their hearts were joined.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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