Produced on the conception of the first day of the year, when hundred poem sequences were ordered to commemorate the reign of former Emperor Horikawa.
うちなびきはるはきにけりやまがはのいはまの氷けふやとくらん
utinabiki Faru Fa kinkeri yama kaFa no iFama no koFori keFu ya tokuran | Trailing in, Spring has come; In the mountain streams Between the rocks the ice May melt today, I think. |
Master of the Palace Repairs Office [Fujiwara no] Akisue