KKS XIV: 740

When Middle Counsellor Minamoto no Noboru was Assistant Governor of Ōmi, she composed this and sent it to him.

相坂のゆふつけ鳥にあらばこそ君がゆききをなくなくも見め

aFusaka no
yuFutukedori ni
araba koso
kimi ga yukiki wo
nakunaku mo mime
At Meeting Hill
A cockerel
Were I to be, even so
Your comings and goings
Would I weep to see, but…

[Palace Lady] Kan’in

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