O heavenly breeze, blow so as to block their path back through the clouds! For I would, if but for a moment, detain those maidens' forms.
Archbishop Henjō
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
O heavenly breeze, blow so as to block their path back through the clouds! For I would, if but for a moment, detain those maidens' forms.