さなえ　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　ずり
「早苗とる　手もとや昔　しのぶ摺」

10. The Shinobu Mottling Stone, Fukushima
The hands of girls planting rice sprouts were beautiful as well as those who prayed a long time ago scrubbing rice sprouts on this mottling stone.

sa-na-e to-ru          (picking rice sprouts)

te-mo-to-ya mu-ka-si   (the hands look like the ones of long ago)

shi-no-bu zu-ri         (scrubbing)

“Hands picking rice sprouts are asbeautiful as the ones scrubbing the Shinobu stone long ago.”

Season word: Sanae =rice sprouts (Summer)