KYS I: 7

Sent around the First Day of the First Month, when snow was falling:

あらたまの年のはじめに降りしけば初雪とこそいふべからりけれ

aratama no
tosi no Fadime ni
Furisikeba
Fatuyuki to koso
iFubekarikere
When at the jewel-bright, new
Year’s beginning
It falls so heavily,
‘First snow’,
I should call it.

Master of the Office of Palace Repairs [Fujiwara no] Akisue (1055-1123)

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