During the reign of Retired Emperor Horikawa, when he offered a hundred poem sequence, he composed this in the conception of the beginning of Spring.
こほりゐし志賀の唐崎うちとけてさゞ波よする春風ぞふく
| koFori wisi siga no karasaki utitokete sazanami yosuru Faru kaze zo Fuku |
Once ice-locked, Around Kara Cape in Shiga There is a melting and The wavelets lap With the blowing breeze of Spring. |
Minister of the Treasury [Ōe no] Masafusa