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Today we’re drawing from Chapter 17 of the Tale of Genji.
Sources:
Poems from Royall Tyler’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“Did the gods decree, when the time of parting came and I, in your hair,
set the comb of last farewell, that we should never meet again?”
“When I went away, you gave me that last command never to return,
and now I am back again, the memory makes me sad.”
“Yes, as I am now, the sacred rope keeps me out, but that does not mean
I could one instant forget all I felt then in my heart”
“It now seems to me here within the sacred rope that all things have changed,
and I think back longingly to the presence of the gods”
Poems from Waley’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
‘Come not again!’ Because it fell to me
Who least would have it so,
At Heaven’s command your exile to ordain;
To others, not to me who bade you go,
You come again!
“Come not again!’ I wept to hear those words,
Thinking you willed it so,
When Heaven’s command my exile did ordain;
Now hearing that it grieved you I should go,
I weep again.
“Though I no longer within the Circle of the Gods a place may take, yet unforgotten is the concourse which in those hours with bright Divinities I held”
“Not yet forgotten is that high converse, and once again within the Precinct of the Gods oh were it but my lot to stray!
Poems from Seidensticker’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“I gave you combs and sent you far away.
The god now sends me far away from you?”
“Long ago, one word you said: Away!
Sorry now am I that I paid no heed.”
“Though now I dwell beyond the sacred confines,
My heart is there committing you to the gods.”
“Within these sacred precincts all has changed.
Fondly I think of the days when I served the gods.”
Poems from Washburn’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“That time I placed the Comb of Parting in your hair
And sent you off, saying ‘Return not!” did the gods
Believe me and decree that we must live apart”
“You gave me the injunction to go far away
Never to return...and now that I have returned
Those words make me regret that I did not obey”
“No longer at the court, I remain as apart from you
As when duties and the sacred rope separated us ...
Yet even now I cannot set aside all my feelings”
“Once inside the sacred straw rope, now inside the palace ...
I feel as though nothing is as it was and find myself
Longing for these times when I served as Priestess to the gods”
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