During the Tenryaku period, His Majesty sent this poem to the Hirohata Miyasudokoro when she had not visited him for some considerable time.
山がつの垣ほに生ふる撫子に思よそへぬ時の閒ぞなき
| yama gatu no kakiFo ni oFuru nadesiko ni omoFi yosoFenu toki no ma zo naki |
The mountain folk Have growing in their fence Some pinks-sweet thing My thoughts dwell on you With no space in-between. |
Emperor Murakami (926-967; r. 946-967)