For the man who doesn't come I wait at the Bay of Matsuo – in the evening calm where they boil seaweed for salt, I, too, burn with longing!
Supernumerary Middle Counselor Teika
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
For the man who doesn't come I wait at the Bay of Matsuo – in the evening calm where they boil seaweed for salt, I, too, burn with longing!