A man who she had been seeing in secret-what can he have been thinking?-returned home after it was light on the morning of the Fifth Day of the Fifth Month, saying, ‘This morning, I am happy to show myself!’; she composed this in reply.
菖蒲草かりにもくらむものゆへにねやの妻とや人の見る覽
| ayamegusa kari ni mo kuramu mono yuFe ni neya no tuma to ya Fito no miruran |
Sweet flags To pick-and as briefly have you been here- But even so, Within lies your wife-as you open the shutters– Is that what folk will see? |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部