You damn well know that !! [MB334]

Fellow-traveler, friend and disciple Etsujin lies on the ground embarrassed and laughing. Bashô, annoyed, tells him :

"Over snow and sand
one wíll fall off one's mare
when drunk on sakè !!"


Translation: 白狐

[Matsuo-Bashô-334] [Winter, 1687.]
yukí ya suná / mumá* yòri ochí yò / saké no yóï.


(*) snow and sand / mare* off fall you-damn-well-know-that /
sakè drunkenness.

(* Riding over / Allant sur ... )

[* Jane Reichhold translated "muma" into "horse",
but "uma" = "horse"(m./f.), "muma" is short for "meuma" = "mare",
and "jôyôba" = "steed".]