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KKS XV: 748

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花すすき我こそ下に思しかほにいでて人にむすばれにけり

Fana susuki
ware koso sita ni
omoFisika
Fo ni idete Fito ni
musubarenikeri

As miscanthus grass
Within my heart
Did I love her;
Now, ’tis plain to see, that
With another is she entwined.

Fujiwara no Nakahira

Another poem from Nakahira:

世をうみの泡とうきたる身にしあればうらむることぞ数なかりける

yo wo umi no
aFa to ukitaru
mi ni siareba
uramuru koto zo
kazu nakarikeru

How I do despise this world, as sea
Foam drifting
Do I seem, so
My regrets are
Without number.

Going to her house when Ise was living away from home, he attached a poem to some autumn leaves and sent it to her.

人住まず荒れたるやどを來て見れば今ぞ木の葉は錦織りける

Fito sumazu
aretaru yado wo
kite mireba
ima zo ko no Fa Fa
nisiki worikeru

She lives no more
At this overgrown house
I have come to gaze upon, but
Now, the leaves upon the trees
Weave a fine brocade.

The Biwa Minister of the Right, [Fujiwara no Nakahira (875-945)]