間 Ma

Winter · Snow · 雪 yuki

Alas! the withered moor, whereon My figure, too, looks pitiful.

Kawai Chigetsu

waga nari mo · aware ni miyuru · kareno kana

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 339; lines re-broken

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