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KKS XIX: 1021

On the day when the following day would mark the beginning of spring, he saw the snow being blown by the wind from the house next door, so he composed this and sent it over.

冬ながら春の隣のちかければなかがきよりぞ花はちりける

Fuyu nagara
Faru no tonari no
tikakereba
nakagaki yori zo
Fana wa tirikeru
‘Tis winter, yet
Spring as a neighbour
Lies so close, so
From the fence between
Blossom has scattered.

Kiyowara no Fukayabu

San’i minamoto no hirotsune ason uta’awase 3

A mountain home concealed by haze (霞隔山家)

Left

おぼつかなとなりもみえず成りにけり霞へだつる村雲のさと

obotsukana
tonari mo miezu
narinikeri
kasumi hedatsuru
muragumo no sato
All is hidden!
My neighbours invisible
Have become;
The hazes form a barrier in
This cloud-clustered hamlet…

Kaya no Nuki
5

Right

春霞八重立ちぬれば尋ねゆく道もわかれずくらはしのさと

harugasumi
yae tachinureba
tazuneyuku
michi mo wakarezu
kurahashi no sato
The spring hazes
Arise eightfold, so
Though I go enquire
No one knows the way to
The estate at Kurahashi.

Koretsune
6