When Her Majesty, the Empress, was known as the Consort who was Mother to the Crown Prince, she selected topics and ordered Ise to compose poems for a folding screen as follows:
There was a picture of a man visiting a woman and conversing with her. The man, using the pretext of plum blossom to begin a conversation with the lady, says:
見し人にまたもやあふと梅の花咲きしあたりに行かぬ日ぞなき
| misi Fito ni mata mo ya aFu to mume no Fana sakisi atari ni yukanu Fi zo naki |
The maid I glimpsed, I wonder, may I meet her more? Plum blossom Bloomed around about Where the sun does ever shine. |