When she was on a pilgrimage to Kamo, someone remarked one dawn that a cuckoo was calling, and as the treetops in Kataoka seemed particularly fine…
郭公こゑまつほどはかたをかのもりのしづくにたちやぬれまし
| hototogisu koe matsu hodo wa kataoka no mori no shizuku ni tachi ya nuremashi | The cuckoo’s Call-while we await it In Kataoka Forest, I wish the dew drops Would wet us where we stand… |
Murasaki Shikibu
紫式部
Composed on the spirit of Spring Rain, when hundred-poem sequences were presented during the reign of Retired Emperor Horikawa (1079-1107; r. 1086-1107).
春雨のふりそめしより片岡の裾野の原ぞあさみどりなる
| Farusame no Furisomesi yori katawoka no susono no Fara zo asamidori naru |
Since a spring shower Started falling, In Kataoka, The field of Susono Has turned the palest green. |
Fujiwara no Mototoshi
藤原基俊