GSIS XII: 695

At a time when she was secretly feeling very gloomy, when she was asked why she was so downcast by someone she was close to, who perhaps guessed it was due to love—she thought this in her heart.

もろともにいつかとくべきあふことのかたむすびなるよはのしたひも

morotomo ni
ituka tokubeki
aFu koto no
katamusubi naru
yoFa no sitaFimo
Together
When might we undo the mystery
Of our meeting, and
My half-knotted
Underbelt at midnight?

Sagami

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
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