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Sanboku kikashū I: 28

Composed for a painting on a folding screen, showing the picking of fresh herbs on a plain where the snow had fallen.

かすが野の雪のむらぎえかきわけて誰がためつめるわかななるらん

kasugano no
yuki no muragie
kakiwakete
ta ga tame tsumeru
wakana naruran
Across Kasuga Plain,
Spotted with snowmelt,
They push their way;
For who might he be garnering
Those fresh herbs?