A Mountain Cherry Comments

waka composed on going to a place where women were wont to pick flowers, he later composed this and sent it to one of the ladies who had been there

山ざくら霞のまよりほのかにも見てし人こそこひしかりけれ yamazakura kasumi no ma yori Fonokani mo mitesi Fito koso koFisikarikere A mountain cherry Through the drifting mists Faintly Seen thus there is a lady I long for all the more Ki no Tsurayuki - 紀貫之 in the KOKINSHŪ - KKS XI: 479