Once, when He was a Prince, He went over to the Toba Palace and was asked to compose on the spirit of ‘the bamboo is a friend for many a year’ by the Hachijō-In Princess, so He composed.
幾千世とかぎらざりける呉竹や君が齡のたぐひなるらむ
| iku tiyo to kagirazarikeru kuretake ya kimi ga yoFaFi no taguFi naruramu |
How many thousand years- Unlimited-lives Chinese bamboo; My Lady’s age Will be of its span, I’d say. |
The Retired Emperor [Goshirakawa]
後白河院