By the Major Captain, when the Kōshin Rite fell upon the fifth Day of the Fifth Month.
夜のほどのつまとのみなるあやめをもまだ見ぬほどはいつかとぞ思ふ
| yo no Fodo no tuma to nomi naru ayame wo mo mada minu Fodo Fa ituka to zo omoFu |
All night long To the eaves wedded is A sweet-flag, Still unseen, But for how long, on this the fifth, I wonder? |