GSS XX: 1373

When the gentlemen and ladies of the household of the Minister of the Left were getting dressed for a coming-of-age ceremony.

大原やをしほの山のこまつ原はや木高かれ千代の影みむ

oFoFara ya
wosiFo no yama no
komatubara
haya ko takakare
tiyo no kage mimu
At Ōhara,
On Oshio Mountain
The young pine saplings
Will grow swiftly into mighty trees and
See a thousand generations pass!

Ki no Tsurayuki
紀貫之

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