Composed as a poem on blossom, when he held a poetry match.

をはつせの花のさかりをみわたせばかすみにまがふみねのしら雲

woFatuse no Fana no sakari wo miwataseba kasumi ni magaFu ne no sirakumo

When at Hatsuse Across the blossoms’ profusion I cast my gaze Entangled in haze are The clouds of white upon the peak.

Senior Assistant Governor-General of Dazai, Shige’ie