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SshKKS XIII: 1270

On the conception of love on first meeting, from a hundred poem sequence at the residence of the Gohosshōji Lay Priest and Former Regent and Chancellor [Fujiwara no Tadamichi].

たのまずはしかまのかちの色をみよあひそめてこそふかくなるなれ

tanomazu wa
shikama no kachi no
iro o miyo
ai somete koso
fukaku narunare
Unasked,
Shikama’s fresh dyed
Hues behold!
Our first meeting’s indigo dyes
Grow ever deeper!

Master of the Dowager Empress Household Office, Toshinari