GSIS XI: 632

Composed on love at the barrier of Meeting Hill by His Majesty, when his gentlemen were drawing out the names of places and composing poems on them.

あふさかのなをもたのまじ恋すれば関のし水に袖はぬれけり

aFusaka no
na wo mo tanomazi
koFisureba
seki no simidu ni
sode Fa nurekeri
Meeting Hill—
An untrustworthy name, indeed!
My passions
Dammed, the spring waters by the barrier
Have soaked my sleeves.

Imperial Composition [Emperor Shirakawa]

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

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