Utsutsu to wa omowazaranan nenuru yo no yume ni mietsuru uki kotodomo o - Izumi Shikibu Nikki(English Translation & Meaning)

現とは思はさらなんねぬるよの
夢に見えつるうき事ともを

Roma-ji: Utsutsu to wa omowazaranan nenuru yo no yume ni mietsuru uki kotodomo o
English Translation: Do not think of them
as something real, I pray you—
all the sorrowful things
that came to you in your dream
the night we lay together
Meaning: Please do not think of them as real, all the sorrowful things that appeared to you in a dream on the night we lay together.
Commentary: 43 The Night He Spoke of Taking Vows

On the night of their exchange about the frosty morning, the prince came to Izumi Shikibu and spoke idly as usual, but then he said forlornly, "If, after I have taken you there, I were to go elsewhere or become a monk and no longer see you, would you think it a betrayal?" Wondering how his intentions had changed, and whether such a thing might really happen, she grew very sad and wept. As sleet fell quietly, the prince did not doze for a moment but went on speaking of moving things, not only of this life but of lives to come. She had made up her mind, she thought, to go into what was little better than unexpected service because he disliked nothing about her and she wished to show him her heart; but if things went this way, she would only end up taking vows herself, as she had long wished. Overcome with sorrow, she said nothing and only grieved.
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.
When Izumi Shikibu's "Utsutsu nite omoeba iwan kata mo nashi koyoi no koto o yume ni nasabaya" and "Shikabakari chigirishi mono o sadame naki sa wa yo no tsune ni omoinase to ya" arrived, the prince wrote, "I meant to write to you first," and sent back this poem.
After the poem he added, "Think of it so. How impatient you are," and went on to send "Hodo shiranu inochi bakari zo sadame naki chigirishi koto wa suminoe no matsu."

The opening lines mean "please do not think of them as real," ending in a particle of wish directed at another, answering her "as reality" and "turn it into a dream." The third line means "of the night we lay together."
The lower verses mean "the sorrowful things that appeared in your dream," placed last by inversion. Granting her very wish to "make it a dream," he asks her not to take last night's talk of vows as real, since it was only something in a dream, and so soothes her unease.
Author: Prince Atsumichi
Source: Izumi Shikibu Nikki
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