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Today we’re drawing from Chapter 15 of the Tale of Genji.
Sources:
Poems from Royall Tyler’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
What so caught my eye, when the rich wisteria tempted me to stop,
Was your pine that seemed to speak of someone pining nearby.
Year after long year I have pined, alway in vain--are those flowers, then,
All that made you look this way and at last notice my home?
Poems from Seidensticker’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
I obey the waving summons of wisteria
Because it flows, at your gate, from the waiting tree
I have waited and waited to no avail, it seems.
Wisteria, not the waiting pine has brought you.
Poems from Washburn’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
What appeared before me making it hard to pass
Was that pine covered in waves of wisteria
A marker of the villa where you pined for me
Having pined so long for you, I wonder...
Have you not called on my humble abode
Just to view those wisteria blossoms
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