Did he appear
because I fell asleep
thinking of him?
If only I’d known I was dreaming,
I’d never have wakened.
From: Hirshfield, Jane and Aratani, Mariko (translators), The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan, 1990, First Vintage Classics: New York, p. [unnumbered].
(https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HDlEBQAAQBAJ&)
Date: c850 (original in Japanese); 1988 (translation in English)
By: Ono no Komachi (c825-c900)
Translated by: Jane Hirshfield (1953- ) and Mariko Aratani (19??- )