冬
Fuyu
Snow, silence, cold light.
- 110 雪は天から送られた手紙である Snow is a letter sent from the sky.
- 102 柳に雪折れなし Snow does not break the willow.
- 217 初しぐれ猿も小蓑をほしげ也 First winter rain — the monkey too seems to wish for a little straw coat.
- 224 うまさうな雪がふうはりふはりかな How delicious it looks, the falling snow — softly, fluffily down.
- 230 いくたびも雪の深さを尋ねけり Again and again I ask: the snow, how deep is it now?
- 292 田子の浦にうち出でて見れば白妙の富士の高嶺に雪は降りつつ Coming out upon Tago Bay, I see: on Fuji's high peak, white, the snow still falling.
- 281 雪月花 Snow, moon, flowers.