When she was on a pilgrimage to Kamo, someone remarked one dawn that a cuckoo was calling, and as the treetops in Kataoka seemed particularly fine…

郭公こゑまつほどはかたをかのもりのしづくにたちやぬれまし

hototogisu koe matsu hodo wa kataoka no mori no shizuku ni tachi ya nuremashi

The cuckoo’s Call-while we await it In Kataoka Forest, I wish the dew drops Would wet us where we stand…

Murasaki Shikibu
紫式部