間 Ma

Winter · Snow · 雪 yuki

A single river, stretching far Across the moorland swathed in snow.

Nozawa Bonchō

naganaga to · kawa hitosuji ya · yuki no hara

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 306; Chamberlain does not name the poet; lines re-broken

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