80. Lady Horikawa, in Attendance on the Dowager Empress Taiken: Taiken Mon-in Horikawa

Nagakaran Kokoro mo shirazu Kuro kami no Midarete kesa wa Mono wo koso omoe. MY doubt about his constancy Is difficult to bear; Tangled this morning are my thoughts, As is my long black hair. I wonder—Does he care? Lady Horikawa was the daughter of the First Adviser of State, Sane-kyo, who lived about the year 1142. In this verse she is anxiously pondering, how long her lover will continue to be true to her; and she discovers, that her ideas on the subject are as tangled and disordered as her hair is. Next: 81. The Minister-of-the-Left of the Tokudai Temple: Go Tokudai-ji Sadaijin