From the Poetry Contest in One Thousand Five Hundred Rounds.
おぼつかなみやこにすまぬ宮こどりこととふ人にいかがこたへし
| obotsukana miyako ni sumanu miyakodori koto tou hito ni ikaga kotaeshi | How strange it is that In the capital lives not The capital bird— To he who enquired of it How did it reply?[i] |
Gishūmon’in no Tango
[i] An allusive variation on KKS IX: 411.