On hearing a cuckoo call in a year where there were two First Months.
きかざりきやよひのやまの郭公春くははれるとしはありしかど
kikazariki yayoi no yama no hototogisu haru kuwawareru toshi wa arishikado I have yet to hear
Love as a Month Passes 経月恋
かきたえて三月になりぬこれやさは心づくしのかどでなるらん
kakitaete At painful length
Toshiyori
冬草と見えし春野の小笹原弥生の雨に深緑なる
fuyu kusa to
A winter plant
Fujiwara no Nakazane
細く降る弥生の雨やいとならむ水にあやおる広沢の池
hosuku furu
Thinly falls,
Kodaishin, from the Residence of the Hanazono Minister of the Left
'Simply moving and elegant'
