365 まんぽ haiku (24) 《子規の「雪」》

　

いくたびも　雪の深さを　尋ねけり

(ikutabi-mo yuki-no-fukasa-o tazunekeri)

       (正岡子規MASAOKA, shiki)

　　　

time after time,

I asked:

How thick the fallen snow?

                 (Lovee)

　 

（Note)

Shiki Masaoka composed this haiku at the age of 29 in 1896 when he was ill in bed.