Composed at a time when she was thinking the world was not as it had always been.
物をのみ思ひしほどに儚くて淺ぢが末に世はなりにけり
| mono wo nomi omoFisi Fodo ni Fakanakute asadi ga suwe ni yo Fa narinikeri |
Gloom alone Is in my thoughts; Fleeting as Fronds of cogon grass Has this world become. |
Izumi Shikibu
和泉式部