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"Refinement's origin:
the remote north country's
rice-planting song."
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977). |
"Clouds now and again
give a soul some respite from
moon-gazing—behold."
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977). |
"The summer grasses:
of mighty warlords' visions
all that they have left."
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977). |
"On my travels, stricken—
my dreams over the dry land
go on roving."
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977).
This haiku is known as Basho's "death haiku." |
"An old pond—
a frog tumbles in—
the sound of water."
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (Untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, appearing in One Hundred Frogs by Hiroaki Sato, New York & Tokyo: Weatherhill (1983). |
"Cooling, so cooling,
with a wall against my feet,
midday sleep—behold."
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), Japanese poet. (untitled haiku), Trans. by Bernard Lionel Einbond, in Cicada I, No. 4 (Winter 1977). |
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