The Sarashina Diary by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume

Author:Sugawara no Takasue no Musume
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Columbia University Press

ika ni ihi

How to tell of it;

nani ni tatohete

to describe it, with what

kataramashi

could I compare it—

aki no yufube no

this evening in autumn

sumiyoshi no ura

on Sumiyoshi Bay.203

I gazed fixedly on the scene and as we were drawn past it, I could not help looking back again; I felt I could never tire of it.

At the onset of winter, we had just boarded a boat at a place called Ōtsu to return to the capital when, that night, rain fell and the wind blew violently enough to move even boulders. What’s more, thunder crashed and roared, and with the sound of the surging waves and the way the wind blew everything around wildly, it was terrifying. I lost control of my thoughts and was sure I was going to die. They pulled the boat up onto a hillock, and we stayed up all night. The next day, the rain let up but the wind still blew; they did not launch the boat. Unable to go anywhere, stranded on top of the hillock, we remained for five or six days. Finally, when the wind abated a little and I raised the blinds and looked out, the way the evening tide had, in a breathless moment, flooded in to the peak, with cranes along the inlet crying in full voice, it all seemed lovely.204 People from the province gathered around and observed, “If my lady had managed to set out that night for Ishizu, there is no doubt that your boat would have been lost without a trace.” I listened uneasily to their words.

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