Composed when Middle Captain Michinobu had remarked on how fleeting the world was, and then said he was going pheasant hunting the following day:
たつ雉のうはのそらなる心地にものがれがたきは世にこそありけれ
| tatu kizi no uFa no soranaru kokoti ni mo nogaregataki Fa yo ni koso arikere |
As a starting pheasant In the heights of heaven Do you feel, yet Impossible to flee Is this world of ours. |