On summer trees, when His Majesty, the Former Emperor, ordered him to produce a thirty poem sequence.

虹のたつふもとの杉は雲にきえて峰よりはるるゆふだちのあめ

niji no tatsu fumoto no sugi wa kumo ni kiete mine yori haruru yūdachi no ame

A rainbow rises above Cedars in the foothills, Vanishing in the clouds Clearing from the peaks, With an evening shower of rain.

Former Senior Assistant Governor General of Dazai Toshikane