間 Ma

Winter · Snow · 雪 yuki

Behold the leaf that sinks and clings Below the water to a rock!

Naitō Jōsō

minasoko no · iwa ni ochitsuku · ko no ha kana

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 333; lines re-broken

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