KKS I: 11

A poem on the beginning of spring.

はるきぬと人はいへどもうぐひすのなかぬかぎりはあらじとぞ思

Faru kinu to
Fito Fa iFedomo
uguFisu no
nakanu kagiri Fa
arazi to zo omoFu

Spring has come, or
So folk say, yet
While the warbler
Sings not,
I feel that is untrue.

Mibu no Tadamine

Waka Poetry