間 Ma

Winter · Snow · 雪 yuki

A troop of sea-gulls, and a gust Off shore that breaks their whirling flight.

Kawai Sora

urakaze ya · tomoe o kuzusu · mura-chidori

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 246; Chamberlain does not name the poet; lines re-broken

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