Composed when a man from the same place stopped writing to her completely.
幾返りつらしと人をみ熊野の恨めしながら戀しかるらむ
| iku kaFeri turasi to Fito wo mikumano no uramesinagara koFisikaruramu |
Time and time again Of his cruelty I’ve thought, yet Seeing him-as across Mikumano Bay – I hate him, but I love him, too, it seems. |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部