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Today we’re drawing from Chapter 18 of the Tale of Genji.
Sources:
Poems from Royall Tyler’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“When this nun at heart longed only for the journey to that distant shore,
Now her boat rows back again to all that she had renounced!”
“Here at my old home, where I have returned alone and in a changed guise,
I hear blowing through the pines a familiar-sounding wind.”
“She whose home this was actually by now forgets many, many things,
But the clear stream babbles on like the mistress of the house.”
Poems from Waley’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“Together we left the City,
How all alone shall I refind the paths down which you led me over heath and hill?”
“An altered and a lonely woman to this my native village I return.
But still unchanged the wind blows music through the trees.”
“I that was mistress here, scarce know the way from room to room;
Only this crystal spring remembers still and meditates the ancient secrets of the house.”
Poems from Seidensticker’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“I want to be a fisherwife upon
A far, clean shore, and now my boat turns back.”
“I have returned alone, a nun, to a mountain village,
And hear the wind in the pines of long ago.”
The mistress, long gone, is lost upon her return
To find that the brook has quite usurped her claims.”
Poems from Washburn’s translation of The Tale of Genji:
“Rowed out to sea upon a fishing boat
I head back to a place I once gave up
A nun now, focused on that distant shore”
“Having returned at last, now wearing a nun’s robes
The wind in the pines echoing round this villa
Sounds so like the wind in the pines at Akashi”
“Long ago she was used to living here
But now she feels so lost that the pure stream
Sounds as if it were master of the house”
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