it entices the flowers – the storm – but though the garden's white, it is not snow, and what it is that's scattering are, in fact, the years of my life!
The Former Chancellor and Lay Novice
Translation from Mostow, Joshua S. Pictures of the Heart: The Hyakunin Isshu in Word and Image. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995.
it entices the flowers – the storm – but though the garden's white, it is not snow, and what it is that's scattering are, in fact, the years of my life!