Above the lower slopes of the high mountains, the cherries have blossomed! O, mist of the near mountains, how I wish you would not rise!
Supernumerary Middle Counselor Masafusa
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
Above the lower slopes of the high mountains, the cherries have blossomed! O, mist of the near mountains, how I wish you would not rise!