間 Ma

Winter · Snow · 雪 yuki

Nothing remaineth; for the snow Hath blotted out both moor and hill.

Naitō Jōsō

no mo yama mo · yuki ni torarete · nani mo nashi

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 332; lines re-broken

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