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KKS VI: 322

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わがやどは雪ふりしきてみちもなしふみわけてとふ人しなければ

wa ga yado Fa
yuki Furisikite
miti mo nasi
Fumiwakete tofu
Fito si nakereba
At my home
The snow lies round about
And the path has vanished;
Forging through to call on me
Comes not a soul…

Anonymous

KKS VI: 318

Topic unknown.

今よりはつぎてふらなむわがやどのすすきおしなみふれるしら雪

ima yori Fa
tugite Furanamu
wa ga yado no
susuki osinami
Fureru siranami
Henceforth,
Oh, that it would keep on falling
In my garden,
Bowing down the miscanthus,
Drifting white snowflakes.

Anonymous

KKS VI: 315

Composed as a Winter poem.

山里は冬ぞさびしさまさりける人めも草もかれぬと思へば

yamazato Fa
Fuyu zo sabisisa
Masarikeru
Fitome mo kusa mo
karenu to omoFeba
In a mountain home
Winter is when loneliness
Overwhelms me;
The bustle of folk and the grasses, too,
Have withered away, I feel.

Minamoto no Muneyuki (d.939)