A poem for a folding screen on the occasion of a Junior Consort’s entrance to the palace in Kangi 1.

風そよぐならのを川の夕ぐれはみそぎぞ夏のしるしなりける

kaze soyogu nara no ogawa no yūgure wa misogi zo natsu no shirushi narikeru

Whispers on the wind Through the oaks at Nara stream Of an evening: Lustrations, alone, of summer Are the sign.[i]

Ietaka, Senior Third Rank

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[i] An allusive variation on SKKS XV: 1376.