FUJIWARA no Michinaga read The Tale of Genji in front of me. When he joked as always, he wrote the Tanka poetry down the paper mat under a plum. What he wrote was: As a plum is known as an acidic thing (Sukimono), people who see the tree cannot help snapping its twig. Shikibu is known as a lecher (Sukimono) as well, and people who see her cannot help seeing and getting her. Certainly not. As the tree has not snapped yet, who could blow a whistle that its plum is acid? I have not yet proposed it, so who spreads such a rumor?'
「源氏の物語御前にあるを殿の御覧じて、例のすずろ言ども出で来たるついでに梅の下に敷かれたる紙に書かせたまへるすきものと名にしたてれば見る人の折らで過ぐるはあらじとぞ思ふたまはせたれば人にまだ折られぬものをたれかこのすきものぞとは口ならしけむめざましうと聞こゆ」