間 Ma

Winter · Snow · 雪 yuki

Moonlight in winter, and I draw My neck within my comforter.

Sugiyama Sanpū

erimaki ni · kubi hiki-irete · fuyu no tsuki

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 337–338; lines re-broken

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