The year has closed while still I wear My sandals and my pilgrim’s hat.

Matsuo Bashō

年暮ぬ 笠きて草鞋 はきながら

toshi kurenu · kasa kite waraji · haki nagara

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 319; lines re-broken