Composed when feeling that it was the end of the Fourth Month.
うの花のむらむらさけるかきねをば雲まの月のかげかとぞみる
| u no hana no muramura sakeru kakine o ba kumo ma no tsuki no kage ka to zo miru |
The deutzia Blooming in profusion Along the brushwood fence Through the cloud-breaks moon Light do appear to be. |
Emperor Shirakawa (1053-1129) (r. 1072-1086)