《The Rose Plum(紅梅)》
'Aha,' said the crown prince,'he has been with my brother Niou.'
The crown prince is very quick in these things.
And that, he said, was why he was being neglected himself.
We all thought it very amusing.
Had you written to Prince Niou?
Somehow it didn't seem as if you had."
"I had indeed. He has always been fond of plum blossoms,
and the rose plum is so unusually fine this year that
I could not let the opportunity pass.
I broke off a branch and sent it to him.
He gives off such an extraordinary scent himself.
I doubt that you could find in all the wardrobes of all
the grand ladies a robe with a finer scent burnt into it.
With Lord Kaoru it all comes naturally.
英語訳文(英文)の出典:『The Tale of Genji』
Edward George Seidensticker(エドワード・ジョージ・サイデンステッカー)コロンビア大学教授(2007年没)