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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 as Basho's "death haiku."
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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 & Tokyo: Weatherhill (1983).
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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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Matsuo Basho
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