間 Ma

Winter · Snow · 雪 yuki

To ice all crimson red has frozen The rime upon the buckwheat stems.

Takakuwa Rankō

aka-aka to · shimo kōri keri · soba no kuki

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 355; lines re-broken

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