64. The Assistant Imperial Adviser Sada-yori: Gon Chū-nagon Sada-yori

Asaborake Uji no kawagiri Tae-dae ni Araware wataru Seze no ajiro-gi. SO thickly lies the morning mist, That I can scarcely see The fish-nets on the river bank, The River of Uji, Past daybreak though it be. The writer was the son of the author of verse No. 55; he died in the year 1004. The River Uji is in the Province of Omi, and drains into Lake Biwa. Seze is a village on the lake-side, and a suburb of the larger town of Otsu. The poet, looking across the river, can hardly make out the fish-nets on the shore at Seze, because of the rising morning mist.