Two poems composed by a maiden of the Yosami, the wife of Hitomaro, Lord Kakinomoto, after his death.
今日今日と我が待つ君は石川の峽に交りてありといはずやも
| kepu kepu tö wa ga matu kimi pa isikapa nö kapi ni mazirite ari tö ipazu ya mo |
‘Will it be this day, or this day?’ The man I’m waiting for Ishikawa’s Pass has entered Can’t you say? |