A cuckoo poem from a hundred-poem sequence composed at the request of the former Regent and Lay Priest, when he was Minister of the Right.
むかしおもふくさのいほりのよるの雨になみだなそへそ山郭公
mukashi omou kusa no iori no yoru no ame ni namida na soe so yama hototogisu |
Deep in thoughts of long ago, Upon a grassen hut Rain falls at night- Do not make my tears fall so, O, mountain cuckoo! |
Master of the Dowager Empress’ Household Office [Fujiwara no] Toshinari
藤原俊成