Bashô: snow-viewing

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Cat dancing in snow, Tscherno: photo by Matthias Zirngibl, 26 February 2006




....Now then!
Let's go snow-viewing, --
....Till we tumble down!





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Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) with cub, Buffalo Zoo: photo by Dave Pape, 2008

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Irish Setter in a snowstorm, northeastern Pennsylvania: photo by Wb6772, 19 December 2008


Now then!: Bashô (1644-1694), translated by R. H. Blyth in Haiku, Vol. IV (Autumn-Winter), 1951

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