思ひねの夢のうき橋とだえして覚むる枕にきゆるおもかげ

omoine no yume no ukihashi todaeshite samuru makura ni kiyuru omokage

Filled with love, I slept, but My floating bridge of dreams Is broken: On waking, from my pillow Your face fades away…[i]

17

---

[i] See: When he composed a fifty-poem sequence for Cloistered Prince Shukaku. 春のよの夢のうきはしとだえしてみねにわかるゝよこ雲のそら haru no yo no / yume no ukihashi / todaeshite / mine ni wakaruru / yokogumo no sora ‘A Spring night’s / Floating bridge of dreams / Is broken – / Split by the peaks, / The long clouds trail across the sky.’ Fujiwara no Sada’ie (Shinkokinshū I: 38)