When a man who had come to see her around the Eighth Month left behind his fan, which was decorated with a picture of bamboo leaves spotted with dewdrops, after some time had passed, she returned it, with this.

しののめにおきてわかれし人よりはひさしくとまる竹の葉の露

shinonome ni okite wakareshi hito yori wa hisashiku tomaru take no ha no tsuyu

At the break of dawn He rose and left— That man, but Much longer lingered Dewdrops on the bamboo leaves.

Izumi Shikibu