Kokinshu #322
Thursday, 25 October 2012 07:44![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lnhammer (Topic unknown.)
At my house the snow
blankets everything -- there is
not even a track
-- for there isn't anyone
pushing through the drifts to visit.
waga yado wa
yuki furishikite
michi mo nashi
fumiwakete tou
hito shi nakereba
---L.
At my house the snow
blankets everything -- there is
not even a track
-- for there isn't anyone
pushing through the drifts to visit.
—28 September & 24 October 2012
(Original author unknown.) More on the loneliness of winter. Compare #287, though here instead of separate statements we get an inverted sentence structure -- and a better excuse for not visiting. "Drifts" is interpretive, implied by the verb for pushing through them.waga yado wa
yuki furishikite
michi mo nashi
fumiwakete tou
hito shi nakereba
---L.