When the Regent and Grand Minister [Fujiwara no Yoshitsune] was Colonel of the Left, he held a poetry competition in one hundred rounds at his house. A poem composed on the oak tree.
時わかぬなみさへ色にいづみがははゝそのもりに嵐ふくらし
toki wakanu nami sae iro ni izumigawa hahaso no mori ni arashi fukurashi |
Untouched by changing seasons are The waves, yet have they taken colour, On Izumi river; In the oak groves Storms rage through, it seems. |
Fujiwara no Sada’ie
藤原定家