Kinkai wakashū 379

Snow between the pines

高砂のをのへの松にふる雪のふりていくよのとしかつもれる

takasago no
onoe no matsu ni
furu yuki no
furite iku yo no
toshi ka tsumoreru

On Takasago
Peak’s pines
The fallen snow
Grows old—over how many
Years has it drifted so?

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