On remembering times long past, when she had served as the Shrine Priestess at Kamo.
ほとゝぎすそのかみ山のたび枕ほのかたらひしそらぞわすれぬ
| hotototgisu sono kami yama no tabi makura hono kataraishi sora zo wasurenu |
O, Cuckoo! When on that holy mount I briefly laid my head, Faintly your call came From the sky–never will I forget it. |
Princess Shokushi
式子内親王