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. |