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)