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