Composed for a folding screen in the residence of Nishinomiya Minister of the Left [Minamoto no Taka’akira (914-983)], to accompany an image of a group of women in travelling clothes among the autumn leaves on the path across the Shiga Mountains.
名を聞けば昔ながらの山なれどしぐるる秋は色まさりけり
| na wo kikeba mukasi nagara no yama naredo sigururu aki Fa iro masarikeri |
When I hear its name, Long ago as now This mountain is, yet In the autumn drizzle Are its colours supreme! |
Minamoto no Shitagō (911-983)
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