SGSS I: 21

Cold lingering in the ice.

山河に冬のしがらみかけとめて猶かぜさむくこほる春かな

yamakawa ni
fuyu no shigarami
kaketomete
nao kaze samuku
kōru haru kana
Across the mountain stream
Winter’s weir
Has been placed, and
Still the breeze, so cold,
Makes this an icy spring!

The Kōmyōbuji Lay Priest and Former Chancellor and Minister of the Left

An allusive variation on KKS V: 303.

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