When Tsutsugimi was born, on the Seventh Night Middle Captain Michitsuna heard of it and started by saying to me:
知らずして七日ゆくまでなりにける數まさるなる濱のまさごを
| sirazusite nanuka yuku made narinikeru kazu masarunaru Fama no masago wo |
All unknowing Upon the Seventh Night Are we arrived; An age as great as Grains of sand upon the beach… |