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Eikyū hyakushu 345

First Snow 初雪

都人まづこはみせん山ざとの庭のこけぢにふれるはつ雪

miyakobito
mazu ko wa misen
yamazato no
niwa no kokeji ni
fureru hatsuyuki

To folk from the capital
First of all would I show
My mountain home’s
Mossy garden paths, where
The first snow has fallen.

Nakazane

First Snow 初雪

さらぬだに人もとひこぬ山ざとにあやにくなれやけさの初雪

saranu dani
hito mo toikonu
yamazato ni
ayaniku nare ya
kesa no hatsuyuki

Of no account at all, and
Not visited by a single soul is
This mountain home, so
Is it unexpected that
The first snow falls here this morn?

Akinaka

Composed on the first snows falling atop the bridge.

白波の立ち渡るかと見ゆるかな浜名の橋にふれる初雪

siranami no
tatiwataru ka to
miyuru kana
Famana no Fasi ni
Fureru Fatuyuki

Whitecaps
Have risen across it
Or so it does seem;
The bridge at Hamana
With first snows fallen…

Lady Owari [in service to] the former Kamo Virgin
前齋院尾張

Composed on the conception of snow as part of a hundred poem sequence.

いかにせむ末の松山なみこさば峯の初雪きえもこそすれ

ika ni semu
suwe no matuyama
nami kosaba
mine no Fatuyuki
kie mo koso sure

What am I to do?
If upon the pine-clad peak of Sué
The waves should break,
The first snows upon the peak
Would vanish clear away!

Minister of the Treasury [Ōe no] Masafusa
大藏卿匡房