On a day when the gentlemen from the Nijō Palace were bestowing charitable gifts, seeing large number of large boxes, Tamesuke said:
かの櫃は何ぞの櫃ぞおぼつかな
| kano Fitu Fa nani zo no Fitu zo obotu kana |
Yonder box: What lies within, I wonder? |
I replied:
かたひの前のほかひなりけり
| kataFi no maFe no FokaFi narikeri |
Placed before the beggars’ Arms, their alms! |