Composed during a gentle rain and sent to a woman he had been secretly seeing since the first day of the Third Month.
おきもせずねもせで夜をあかしては春の物とてながめくらしつ
| oki mo sezu ne mo sede yoru wo akasite Fa Faru no mono tote nagame kurasitu |
Not awake and yet Not sleepless through the night, and With the dawn Comes a scene from Spring: Ever-falling rain to gaze upon all day. |
Ariwara no Narihira (825-880)
有原業平