On the 20th day, Second Month, twenty poems about sakimori were presented by the Superintendent of Sakimori, Musashi Province: Mikuni, Lord Azumi, of the Senior Sixth Rank. However, unskilful efforts were not recorded.
防人に行くは誰が背と問ふ人を見るが羨しさ物思ひもせず
sakimori ni yuku pa ta ga se tö topu pitö wo miru ga tömosisa monö omopi mo sezu |
“For a border-guard Whose man is to go?” The people ask; Seeing them I envy, Feeling nothing else. |