SKKS XI: 1072

When His Majesty’s gentlemen were composing poems on love and the wind, during the reign of former emperor Toba.

おひかぜに八重のしほぢをこぐ舟のほのかにだにもあひみてしかな

oikaze ni
yae no shioji o
kogu fune no
honoka ni dani mo
aimiteshi kana
The pursuing wind
Tracks ‘cross eightfold tidal paths
To reach the boat a’rowing out,
Its sails, so distant, but
Even a glimpse of you would do!

Supernumerary Middle Counsellor Morotoki

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