(1644 - 1694 / Iga Province / Japan)

poet Matsuo Basho
#72 on top 500 poets
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A cool fall night

At a hermitage:

A cool fall night--
getting dinner, we peeled
eggplants, cucumbers.


Translated by Robert Hass

Submitted: Monday, January 13, 2003


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