nozarashi o

On being struck by the cold: on leaving his hut in Edo in the autumn of 1684, the Eighth Month, the sound of the wind was particularly chill.

野ざらしを心に風のしむ身哉

nozarashi o
kokoro ni kaze no
shimu mi kana
To be bleached bones in a field-
I feel my fate as the wind
Pierces my breast.

(1684)

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