SKKS III: 201

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

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