Even in dreams
I do not want him to know
that it is me he is making love to,
for I am overcome with blushes
when I see my face in my morning mirror.
From: Rexroth, Kenneth and Atsumi, Ikuko (eds.), Women Poets of Japan, 1977, New Directions: New York, p. 18.
(https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0BMQwLapofkC)
Date: 10th century (original in Japanese); 1977 (translation in English)
By: Ise no miyasudokoro (c875-c938)
Translated by: Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (1905-1982) and Ikuko Atsumi (1940- )
From Troubles of The World 