Composed on the desires of Spring in a village by the water, when the gentlemen of the court were composing Chinese poems and Japanese to match them.
見わたせば山もとかすむみなせがはゆふべはあきとなにおもひけん
| miwataseba yama moto kasumu minasegawa yūbe wa aki to nani omoiken |
When I gaze across The haze-shrouded mountains’ feet, to The river Minase: The evening is Autumn time – I wonder why I felt so… |
The Retired Emperor [Gotoba (1180-1239; r. 1183-1198)]