Written in the margins [of a letter she had received from Fujiwara no Nagafusa on his appointment as Governor of Tsukushi].
別路をげにいかばかり嘆くらん聞く人さへぞ袖はぬれける
| wakaredi wo geni ikabakari nagekuran kiku Fito saFe zo sode Fa nurekeru |
The path of parting Beyond all measure sad Must be, For hearing of it, we too, Have soaking sleeves. |
[Empress] Jōtōmon’in [Shōshi] (988-1074)