SIS XI: 673

Sent to a woman’s residence.

人しれぬおもひはとしもへにけれどわれのみしるはかひなかりけり

Fito sirenu
omoFi Fa tosi mo
Fenikeredo
ware nomi siru Fa
kaFinakarikeri
Unknown to all are
My passionate thoughts as the years
Go by, yet that
I, alone, am aware of them
If pointless.

The Ononomiya Palace Minister

A kuzushiji version of the poem's text.
Created with Soan.

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