Composed on the conception of gazing at mountain cherries in the distance, when people were drinking wine and composing poetry at the residence of the Minister of the Centre.

高砂の尾上のさくらさきにけりと山のかすみたたずもあらなん

takasago no wonoFe no sakura sakinikeri toyama no kasumi tatazu mo aranan

On Takasago’s Heights the cherries Have bloomed; O, I wish the haze around the nearby peaks Would not rise at all!

Lord Ōe no Masafusa