SKKS VII: 734

When she presented a hundred poem sequence.

あめのしためぐむくさ木のめもはるにかぎりもしらぬみよのすゑずゑ

ame no shita
megumu kusa ki no
me mo haru ni
kagiri mo shiranu
miyo no suezue
Beneath the firmament
The budding plants
Put forth shoots in spring, and with eyes fixed on the distance,
Its bounds unknown to all,
This reign will continue on.

Princess Shokushi
式子内親王

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