A boy at the Mii Temple had promised to let him know if he came to the capital; although he heard that the boy was there, when he did not come to visit him, he sent him the following:
かげみえぬ君は雨夜の月なれやいでゝも人にしられざりけり
kage mienu kimi Fa amayo no tuki nare ya idete mo Fito ni sirarezarikeri |
Unseen is the brightness of your face ? Are you as a rain-filled night’s Moon, perhaps? Emerging, yet to folk Not letting on!. |
Bishop Kakuga (1090 – 1146)