Although I hide it

My love shows in my face

So plainly that he asks me,

“Are you thinking of something?”

(Shinoburedo

Iro ne ide ni keri

Waga koi wa

Mono ya omou to

Hito no tou made)

 According to Kenneth Rexroth, TAIRA NO KANEMORI, the Japanese poet who wrote this poem, flourished in the tenth century. Nothing else is know of him.