His reply:
わがおもひそらのけぶりとなりぬれば雲井ながらもなをたづねてん
| wa ga omoi sora no keburi to narinureba kumoi nagara mo nao tazuneten |
My thought are flames, As sky-soaring smoke Have they become, so Though they be among the clouds, Yet I will ask again. |
Chūgi-Kō [Fujiwara no Kanemichi]
Composed on the waters of Hashiri Spring, on the road home from Ishiyama.
逢坂の關とは聞けど走井の水をばえこそとゞめざりけれ
| aFusaka no seki to Fa kikedo Fasiriwi no midu wo ba e koso todomezarikere |
Of Meeting Hill’s Barrier, I had heard, yet Hashiri Spring’s Waters it does damn all To stop! |
The Horikawa Grand Minister [Fujiwara no Kanemichi]