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❄️FOUR FRIENDS OF THE SNOW💮
Daffodils, camellias, wintersweet and Japanese apricots are known as 'setchū-no-shiyū' (雪中四友), the 'Four Friends of the Snow'.
keeping company
with the plum tree-
the gate's last snow
梅の木の連に残るや門の雪
-Kobayashi Issa, 1822.
Trans. David G. Lanoue.
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