Must you so avoid others' eyes that not even at night, along the road of dreams, will you draw nigh the waves to the shore of Sumi-no-e Bay?
Lord Fujiwara no Toshiyuki
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
Must you so avoid others' eyes that not even at night, along the road of dreams, will you draw nigh the waves to the shore of Sumi-no-e Bay?