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Matsuo Basho
(1644 - 1694 / Iga Province / Japan)
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42 poems of Matsuo Basho
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''Refinement's origin:
the remote north country's
rice-planting song.''
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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).
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''Clouds now and again
give a soul some respite from
moon-gazing—behold.''
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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).
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''The summer grasses:
of mighty warlords' visions
all that they have left.''
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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).
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''On my travels, stricken—
my dreams over the dry land
go on roving.''
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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).
This haiku is known...
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''An old pond—
a frog tumbles in—
the sound of water.''
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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (Untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, appearing in One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki Sato, New York ...
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''Cooling, so cooling,
with a wall against my feet,
midday sleep—behold.''
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Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).
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