ちはやぶる
神代も聞かず
竜田川
からくれなゐに
水くくるとは

Chihayaburu
kami-yo mo kikazu
tatsuta-gawa
kara-kurenai ni
mizu kuguru to wa

Even the almighty
gods of old
never knew
such beauty
on the river Tatsuta
in autumn sunlight
a brocade—
reds flowing above
blue water below.

-Ariwara no Narihira

Art by Kanō Tan’yū, Sanjūrokkasen-gaku (Thirty-six Poetry Immortals)