“Not knowing that I am pillowed among the crags on Kamo Mountain, my wife must still be waiting for my return. ‘Today, today!’ each day I have waited for you and now they say you are strewn with the shells of Ishi River! Love is a sad lament I must sing to the clouds as they pass Ishi River.”

— from Manyoshu’s Collection of Ten thousand Leaves (Japanese Anthology compiled in 759 AD) and the OVA Blue Sub #6 (2000 AD)