Today's offering is from Kobayashi Issa (一茶, lit. "one tea" or "a cup of tea"):
冬籠り
あくびのあとの
念仏かな
Winter seclusion
After a yawn
The Buddha, perhaps?
Heres more about 一茶:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi…
and a link to an archive of his work:
haikuguy.com/issa/searcheng…
Several refer to "New Year's Day" (元日) but he would have observed that later in the year (he lived when Japan was under the 天保暦 — Tenpōreki lunisolar calendar).
A bit more reflection on the use of this term: 念仏 「ねんぶつ」— a chant or prayer for 阿弥陀 (the Amitabha Buddha):
https://poe.com/s/LnnpZY11jhhqBbpucWdl
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