One night in the year before Tamesuke was due to receive his cap of rank, on a night in the Eighth Month when the moon was shining brightly, I was talking to him and said:
數ふればいまいつゝきになりにけり
| kazoFureba ima itutuki ni narinikeri |
Counting up Now, five months Is all you have to go! |
He concluded:
むつきにならば訪ふ人もあらじ
| mutuki ni naraba toFu Fito mo arazi |
If this were the sixth, No one will enquire of me! |