Composed as a firefly poem, when he presented a hundred-poem sequence.
昔わがあつめし物を思ひ出てみなれがほにも來る螢かな
| mukasi wa ga atumesi mono wo omoFi’idete minaregaFo ni mo kuru Fotaru kana |
In my youth I Gathered them– How well I do recall The familiar sight Of approaching fireflies. |
Fujiwara no Suemichi