Poem by Minamoto no Muneyuki Ason, from the series One Hundred poems Explained by the Nurse (Hyakunin isshu uba ga etoki)
Katsushika Hokusai Japanese
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The poem by Minamoto no Muneyuki (d. 939) reads:
In a mountain hamlet winter's loneliness grows deeper.
Both people and grasses are withered—so run my
thoughts.
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