The temple bell roused me from dreams 
And waiting for the starlit dawn 
The night, alas! was long as are 
One hundred autumn nights.~The Sarashina Diary*

Hammand Rais

*cited: Translated: Annie Shipley Omoni & Kōchi Doe. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920.