Upon being asked by Prince Koretaka for the poems which his father had composed while he was alive, Tomonori wrote them out and sent them, composing this poem and putting it at the end.
ことならば事のはさへもきえななむ見れば涙のたぎまさりけり
| koto naraba koto no Fa saFe mo kienanamu mireba namida no tagi masarikeri |
If it’s all the same I wish that even his words Would vanish away, For at the sight of them my tears Fall in cataracts. |
Tomonori
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