When various members of the court had gone to a place in the mountains to listen to cuckoos, Minor Captain Kintō, having feelings in a certain direction, intimated as much and, on returning, sent this the following morning:
山里にほのかたらひしほとゝぎす鳴く音聞きつと傳へざらめや
| yamazato ni Fono kataraFisi Fototogisu naku ne kikitu to tutaFezarame ya |
Within that mountain retreat Softly called A cuckoo; That you heard his cry, Might you tell, I wonder?. |