Composed on the conception of hidden love, when various people were ordered to produce hundred poem sequences by the Lay Priest and Former Regent, when he was Minister of the Right.

後の世をなげくなみだといひなしてしぼりやせましすみ染の袖

nochi no yo o nageku namida to iinashite shibori ya semashi sumizome no sode

My life to come brings These grieving tears— Should that be my excuse,as I wring out My ink-dyed sleeves?

Senior Assistant Governor-General of Dazai, Shige’ie