Composed when he saw snow lying white on Mount Fuji, at the end of the Fifth Month.
時しらぬ山はふじのねいつとてかかのこまだらに雪のふるらん
toki shiranu yama wa fuji no ne itsu tote ka ka no ko madara ni yuki no fururan |
It knows not the season, The peak of Fuji Mountain; When is it that Fawn-dappled Snow should fall? |
Narihira
業平