according to the notes and additional remarks of no . 1219 , " gosen wakashu (the second of the imperial anthologies of classical waka poetry ) vol . 17 , miscellaneous 3 ," she was a ' famous , tasteful woman ' who lived in shirakawa in tsukushi province; when fujiwara no okinari , a senior assistant governor-general of government headquarters in kyushu , asked her to fetch water , she is to be said to have composed a poem which reads , ' time has passed and my once black hair has turned white , and i have fallen so low that now i have to fetch water from the shirakawa river myself .' 『後撰和歌集・巻第十七・雑三』、1219番の詞書と付記によれば、筑紫国の白河という所に住んでいた「名高く、事好む女」で、大宰大弐・藤原興範に水を汲むよう乞われると、「年ふればわが黒髪も白河の みづはくむまで老いにけるかも」と詠んだという。
