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Today we’re drawing from Chapter 21 of the Tale of Genji.
Sources:
Poems from Royall Tyler’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“The fair dancing girl must have grown wise in her time, for the friend she knew
When she tossed her angel sleeves is himself much older now.”
“Since you mention it, all that is present to me as though it were new.
How beneath my sunshade band I melted like frost on your sleeves.”
Poems from Waley’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“Be thankful that upon the maidens of the Sky time leaves no mark; for upon me, to whom long since you waved your dancing-sleeve, age and its evils creep apace”
“It needed but your word to bring them back, those winter days; though long since faded is the wreath that crowned them with delight”
Poems from Seidensticker’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“What will the years have done to the maiden, when he
Who saw her heavenly sleeves is so much older?”
“Garlands in my hair, warm sun to melt the frost,
So very long ago. It seems like yesterday.”
Poems from Washburn’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“You must surely have acquired godlike dignity by now
O maiden of the dance who once twirled those heavenly sleeves
For I too, your companion long ago, have grown older”
“You mention that dance of old and make it seem like today
When I donned that hikage garland and yielded to you
Melting in your bright sunshine like the frost that drenched your sleeves
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