Composed at a poetry competition held by Her Majesty, the Empress, during the Kanpyô period.
白雪のふりてつもれる山ざとはすむ人さへや思ひきゆらむ
| sirayuki no Furite tumoreru yamazato Fa sumu Fito saFe ya omoFikiyuramu |
The white snow Has fallen, drifted high around The mountain home; Might even he who lives there Be buried in melancholy? |
Mibu no Tadamine
壬生忠岑