
隙もなく ゆきはふれども たにの戸に はる来にけりと うぐひすぞなく
Hima mo naku / yuki wa furedomo / tani no to ni / haru kinikeri to/ uguisu zo naku
Although it is snowing ceaselessly
at the gate of the mountain valley,
The warbler is singing,
saying, “Spring has already come.”
-Dogen (translation by Shohaku Okumura)
