When a woman he had been seeing in secret sent to him saying, ‘Why haven’t I heard from you?’
小山田の水ならなくにかく計流そめては絶えん物かは
| woyamada no midu naranaku ni kaku bakari nagare somete Fa taen mono ka Fa |
A mountain paddy’s Water, this is not, so Having thus Begun to flow Shall it cease? Never! |
The Minister of the Right, [Fujiwara no Morosuke (d. 960)]