When the Lay Priest Regent had not come to see her for a long time, she composed this on seeing the water in a basin for washing her hair.
たえぬるかゝげだに見えばとふべきにかたみの水はみくさゐにけり
| taenuru ka kage dani mieba toubeki ni katami no mizu wa mikusa inkeri |
Is it all so hopeless? Could I but see your face, I would ask you, but The water you have left behind Is filled with water-weed. |
The Mother of Major Captain of the Right, Michitsuna