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GSS I: 38

He had paid a visit to the house of an acquaintance where there was a plum tree. ‘When it blooms, I will certainly invite you to come,’ he was told, but when no letter arrived…

梅花今は盛りになりぬらんたのめし人のをとづれもせぬ

mume no Fana
ima Fa sakarini
narinuran
tanomesi Fito no
wotodure mo senu
The plum blossom
Is now profusely
Blooming, it seems, but
From the man I trusted
Comes no note, at all…

The Suzakuin Prince and Minister for War [Atsukata/Atsumoto]

Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 13

Left (Tie)

おとぎきにあやなく人をこひそめてそれとだにみぬことのわびしさ

otogiki ni
ayanaku hito o
koisomete
sore to dani minu
koto no wabishisa
By repute
Pointlessly, a lady
Have I begun to love,
Without even seeing her,
That is truly pitiable!

25

Right

やまびこのおとにのみきくきみなればわれよりさきにとふ人もなし

yamabiko no
oto ni nomi kiku
kimi nareba
ware yori saki ni
tou hito mo nashi
As a mountain spirit
Word is all I hear
Of you, so
Before me
Not a man will visit you!

26

Sahyōe no suke sadafumi uta’awase 12

Left (Tie)

ひさにこぬ人をまつにやあひぬらむときはのこひとわがなりぬるは

hisa ni konu
hito o matsu ni ya
ainuramu
tokiwa no koi to
wa ga narinuru wa
He never comes, that
Man I’m waiting for—will
I ever meet him?
Though into everlasting love
Have I completely fallen…

Mitsune
23

Right

おもひつつまだいひそめぬわがこひをおなじこころに人はしらなむ

omoitsutsu
mada iisomenu
wa ga koi o
onaji kokoro ni
hito wa shiranamu
Ever are you in my passionate thoughts,
Though we have yet to speak
I would my love
You would feel within your heart as I—
That’s what I would have you know!

Mitsune
24

GYS X: 1461

When a man who had come to see her around the Eighth Month left behind his fan, which was decorated with a picture of bamboo leaves spotted with dewdrops, after some time had passed, she returned it, with this.


しののめにおきてわかれし人よりはひさしくとまる竹の葉の露

shinonome ni
okite wakareshi
hito yori wa
hisashiku tomaru
take no ha no tsuyu
At the break of dawn
He rose and left—
That man, but
Much longer lingered
Dewdrops on the bamboo leaves.

Izumi Shikibu