To Whom Winter Comes Faster? (7) —The Seventh of 10 Chinese Poems on the Poor composed in the winter of 886 by Sugawara Michizane, the then Sanuki Province Governor—

To whom winter comes faster? To hired rowers winter comes faster They don’t know how to farm And are hired as a day laborer They have little land to farm And row only to be poorer They don’t mind winds and waves But only hope to be hired everyday