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Y sleeve is wet with floods of tears As here I sit and cry; ’Tis wetter than a low-tide rock, No one, howe’er he try, Can find a spot that ’s dry!

The Lady Sanuki was one of the Minamoto family, and lived at the Court of the Emperor Nijō, who reigned 1159–1165. She was the daughter of the retired Emperor Goshirakawa, and died 1165.