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Fubokushō XVI: 6665

On winter rain, from a hundred poem sequence on the four seasons, composed in Jōkyū 2 [1220].

都人ちぎりしものをはつ雪に松の葉をしき夕暮の雨

miyakobito
chigirishi mono o
hatsuyuki ni
matsu no ha o shiki
yūgure no ame
Capital folk
Did make a vow:
Upon the first snows
Pine needles spread
By the evening rain.

Lord Ietaka, Junior Second Rank