year unknown
.初春や千代のためしに立給ふ
hatsu haru ya chiyo no tameshi ni tatsu tamau
spring begins
as it has deigned to do
for a thousand ages
This haiku has the prescript, "In a picture of Mount Fuji." Did Issa include this poem in a haiga (haiku painting)?
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