Composed on summer rain for a poetry match, after the Thirty Day Sutra Recitation[1] held at the residence of the Uji Former Grand Minister[2].

さみだれにみづのみまきのまこも草かりほすひまもあらじとぞおもふ

samidare ni midu no mimaki no makomogusa kariFosu Fima mo arazi to zo omoFu

In the summer rain At Mizu, the royal pasture grows Wild rice, but To reap and dry it no time There is at all, I feel!

Sagami

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[1] The Thirty Day Sutra Recitation (Sanjikkō 三十講)was an event where the Sutra of Innumerable Meanings (Ananta Nirdeśa Sūtra; Jp. Muryōgi-kyō 無量義経), the twenty-eight fascicles of the Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram; Jp. Hokke-kyō 法華経) and the Samantabhadra Meditation Sūtra (Jp. Kanfugen-kyō 観普賢経) were read aloud over thirty consecutive days, or occasionally over fifteen consecutive days with readings each morning and evening.

[2] Fujiwara no Yorimichi 藤原頼通 (992-1074)