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GSS IX: 509

When the Minamoto Minister had visited her, but then lately had not come to call, she caught a faint glimpse of him through a hole in the wall of her chamber, and sent him this.

まどろまぬかべにも人を見つるかなまさしからなん春の夜の夢

madoromanu
kabe ni mo Fito wo
mituru kana
masasikaranan
Faru no yo no yume
Unable to sleep,
Through my wall him
I did glimpse!
O, how I wish were true
My dream this brief spring night…

Suruga

SIS XVIII: 1206

She had this written as a reply when Middle Counsellor Taira no Korenaka sent her a letter for the first time in a long while.

夢とのみ思ひなりにし世中を何いまさらにおどろかすらん

yume to nomi
omoinarinishi
yo no naka o
nani imasara ni
odorokasuran
Simply as a dream
Had I come to think
Of us, so
Why now of all times
Should I be so intrigued?

The Daughter of Takashina no Narinaka

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
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Kinkai wakashū 34

After I had had various people compose on the scent of plum carried on the breeze.

梅がかをゆめの枕にさそひきてさむるまちける春の山風

ume ga ka o
yume no makura ni
sasoikite
samuru machikeru
haru no yamakaze
The scent of plum
To my pillow, where I lay dreaming
Was beckoned—
Waiting ‘til I awakened did
The mountain breeze in springtime.
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