Hyakunin Isshu #4
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lnhammer Just as I set out
for Tago Bay, I look up --
and on the pure white
of Mount Fuji's lofty peak
the snow continues to fall.
for Tago Bay, I look up --
and on the pure white
of Mount Fuji's lofty peak
the snow continues to fall.
—22 January 2010
The original by Yamabe no Akahito is another famous one, this text being a revision of the version in the Man'yoshu (where it's the envoy for a choka). Could read as either "set out for" or "go out on" -- depends on whether you want him on land or sea, more or less.
tago no ura ni
uchi-idete mireba
shirotae no
fuji no takane ni
yuki wa furitsutsu
---L.