[Sent to] the Assistant Master of the Empress’ Household, the morning after New Year Archery.
弓はりのまとゐやいかにありしそもいるかた山は遠ざかりけん
| yumihari no matoi ya ika ni arishi somo iru katayama wa tōzakariken | The archery Targets: how Were they, indeed? The direction you were shooting, as a mountainside Distant seems to have been! |