Written on a fan when Ōe no Tamemoto went down into the Eastlands (around 985).
惜ともなき物ゆへにしかすがの渡と聞けばたゞならぬ哉
| wosimu to mo naki mono yuFe ni sikasuga no watari to kikeba tada naranu kana |
For regret I have no reason, yet To Shikasuga’s Crossing are you bound, I hear, so Indeed, I am not completely indifferent. |