When the Priestly Retired Emperor first took the tonsure, he trod a mountain path and the Empress first of all, and all his other senior and junior consorts gathered in the same palace; some three years later the Emperor returned, and at the end of a meal they had shared there, talking of long ago things
言の葉に絶えせぬ露はおくらんやむかしおぼゆる團居したれば
| koto no Fa ni taesenu tuyu Fa okuran ya mukasi oboyuru madowi sitareba |
Upon the leaves that are our words Never-ending dew Falls, does it not? When as in times long gone We sit around together… |