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BASHO'S HAIKU
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Translated by Jane Reichhold
1.
has spring come / or the year gone away? / second last day
2.
the moon a sign / this way, sir, to enter / a traveler’s inn
3.
the old woman / cherry tree blooming in old age / is something to remember
4.
from Kyoto’s many houses / a crowd of ninety-nine thousand / blossom viewing
5.
people growing old / the youth of Ebisu / makes them even older
6.
a falling sound / that sours my ears / plum rain
7.
rabbit-ear iris / how much it looks like / its image in water
8.
a flower / visible to the eyes of the poor / the plumed thistle ogre
9.
in summer rain / would you be happy with / the moon’s face
10.
by moonflowers / a fascinating body / floats absent-mindedly
11.
rock azaleas / dyed red by the tears / of the cuckoo
12.
how long / to wait for the cuckoo / about a thousand years
13.
autumn wind’s / mouth at the sliding door / a piercing voice
14.
for the Star Festival / even when hearts cannot meet / rainy-rapture
15.
just to be clear / I live in he capital / for today’s moon
only clear / I live in the capital / for Kyoto’s moon
16
the rainy image / of the bottom shining princess / the moon’s face
17
the voice of reeds / sounds like the autumn wind / from another mouth
18
asleep / the good-looking bush clover / has a flowery face
19
moon’s mirror / seen on a balmy autumn night / New Year for the eyes
20
frost withered / field flowers still in bloom / seem depressed
21
a winter shower / the pine tree is unhappy and / waiting for snow
22
drooping downward / the upside-down world / of snow on bamboo
23
hailstones mixed / with large flakes of snow / finely patterned cloth
hailstones mixed / on an unlined robe / with a fine pattern
24
the face of a flower / is it feeling shy / tha hazy moon
25
in full bloom / may the plum not be touched / by the wind’s hand
26
here and there / a mask by itself combs / willow hair
a spring wind / combs on a mask / willow hair
27
flower buds / it’s my regret I can’t open / my bag of poems
flower buds / sadly spring winds cannot open / a poem bag
28
snowflakes like cookies / changing into white strings / the willow
29
spring winds / hoping the flowers burst / out in laughter
30
summer’s near / cover the mouth of the wind sack / to save the blossoms
31
making merry / the people at Hatsuse / wild cherry trees
32
drooping cherry trees / as I leave to go home / tnagled feet
33
as the wind blows / the dog cherry tapers off / like a tail
34
crest of a wave / flowers as snow turn to water / to return early
35
that handsome man / clearly is no longer living / a rain-hidden moon
36
iside the temple / visitors cannot know / cherries are blooming
37
arrival of spring / even a boy knows to decorate / with a rice straw rope
38
put it ont o try / in-vest yourself / in a flowered robe
39
early summer rain / measuring the shallows / of the Oft-seen River
40
summer grove / a sword worn by the mountain / a hip tassel
41
beautiful / the core of the princess melon / is already a queen
42
a pair of deer / hair on hair in agreement / with hair so hard
43
hating flowers / the mouths of talkative people / and the wind bag
44
when planting one / handle it like a baby / wild cherry tree
45
what a sprout / a dewdrop seeps down the nodes / of generations of bamboo
46
stars in my eyes / wishing to see blossoms / on weeping cherries
47
ah such a life / sweet potatoes again the source / of the harvest moon
48
written letters, yes / not colored leaves raked up / burned after reading
49
in everyone’s mouth / the tongue of autumn’s / red leaves
50
watching them / it almost makes me surrender / to the prostitute flowers
51
today / this night has no time to sleep / moon viewing
52
see its slim shape / it is still not developed / the new moon this night
53
separated by clouds / the wild goose lives apart for a while / from his friend
54
the village quack / sent for with a horse / from a grand mason
55
on the grassy plain / it’s about one inch tall / the deer’s voice
56
acupuncturist / hammering into the shoulder / without clothes
57
under the spilled cup / flows the chrysanthemum / on he flowered tray
58
it had to be / it had to be until / the end of the year
59
seeing plum blossoms / the spring song of an ox / bellows yes
60
as to a god / I looked into the sky at his treasure / plum blossoms
61
the cloud’s base / Mount Fuji shaped as a cedar / grows thicker
62
Mount Fuji / a flea on the cover / of the tea grinder
63
still alive / under the slightness of my hat / enjoying the coolness
64
a summer moon / leaving from Goyu / arrives in Alaska
65
a Fuji wind / placed here on a fan / a souvenir of Tokyo
66
coming two hundred miles / the distance under the clouds / to enjoy the coolness
67
viewing a montain moon / rarely is it seen so clear / in dirty old Tokyo
68
on the scales / Kyoto and Tokyo balance / one thousand springs
69
pine decorations / when I think of New Year’s / thirty years overnight
70
it’s a beginning poem / the name of the renga master / at home on New Year’s
71
top of Mount Hiei / the letter shi has been drawn / by someone with mist
72
a cat’s wife / visited so frequently / the oven crumbles
73
the dragon’s place / with today’s low tide is airing / everything in the sun
74
without waiting / for the cuckoo has he come / selling vegetables
75
tomorrow the rice dumpling / will be just dead reed leaves / with a dream
76
rainy season / sea glow lights held up / by the night watchman
77
the Omi mosquito net / perspiration ripples come / in the bed of night
78
from a treetop / emptiness dropped down / in a cicada shell
79
making a mistake / finding corn instead of / reeds under the eaves
80
autumn has come / visiting my ear on / a pillow of wind
81
tonight’s moon / polish it so one can see it / showing out of the clouds
82
logged tree / see the larges cut end is / a harvest moon
83
fragile twigs / breaking off the scarlet papers / autumn wind
84
a stain / falling on tofu / a bit of autumn leaf
85
knowing it first / on the famous musician’s flute / a snowstorm of flowers
86
scudding clouds / as a dog pisses while running / scattered winter showers
87
winter shower / a falling of pebbles / into Small Stone River
88
coming with frost / the wind lies down to sleep with / a deserted child
89
Mount Fuji snow-covered / Rosei’s dream has already / been built
90
white charcoal / in the Urashima tale / made him old
91
grass of forgetting / picked for a rice soup / the end of the year
92
home schooling / who takes the book from the box / this spring morning
93
well nothing happened / yesterday has passed away / with globefish soup
94
even the captain / bows down before / the lord of spring
95
royal family dolls / the figurine of the emperor / ”long may he reign!”
96
frst blossoms / seeing them extends my life / seventy-five more years
97
iris growing / under the eaves from a sardine’s / weathered skull
98
offering water / may the deceased be consoled / with dried boiled rice
99
a shipbuilder / will have to lend us a boat / the river of heaven
100
autumn has come / loving a wife with stars / on buckskin
101
surely star-lovers / using as a rug / a deerskin
102
a rainy day / the autumn world / of a border town
103
truly the moon / is as high as land prices / this shopping area
104
pickled in salt / now it will send a message / the imperial gull
105
rocks wither / even water is dried up / freezing winter
stones are exposed / by water drying up / extreme winter
106
pining for flowers / or a tune from Gichiku / Mount Yoshino
107
the captain and / the flowers have come / on a saddled horse
108
sandal backs / coming home in folds / of mountain cherries
109
the blue sea / in waves smelling of sake / tonight’s full moon
110
a wine cup / of „mountain-path mumms” / drink it up
111
overlooking it / when I see the view of Suma / life’s autumn
112
a morning of snow / only the onions in the garden / blaze the trail
113
stepping on frost / it cripples me / to see him off
114
ah spring spring / how great is spring! / and so on
115
under blossoms overnight / I should name myself / a purified gourd
116
early summer rain / the green of a rock cypress / lasting how long
117
is it a spider / with a voice crying / the autumn wind
118
in a humble cottage / tea leaves raked up / after the storm
119
has the charcoal changed / into the sound of split wood? / the back of Ono’s ax
120
on a bare branch / a crow settled down / autumn evening
121
it seems to stupid me / that hell is like this / late autumn
122
the sound of an oar hitting waves / freezes my bowels / night tears
123
charcoal of Ono / people learn how to write / searching in the ashes
124
does he grieve / the poet when he sees parsley / grow dark with cooking
125
rice-cake flower / stuck as a hair ornament / on Lord Rat
126
dreaming rice cakes / fastened to folded ferns / a grass pillow
127
a grassy plain / the moon is a young sprout / from Pine Island seed
128
a hangover / is nothing as long as / there are cherry blossoms
129
planting a banana tree / more than ever I hate / sprouting reeds
130
storm-torn banana tree / all night I listen to rain / in a basin
131
flowers in full bloom / in high spirits the priest / and the fickle wife
132
dew on roses / the rapeseed flowers’ faces / become envious
133
drunk on flowers / the woman armed with a sword / wears a man’s jacket
134
is the cuckoo / invited by the barley / or pampas plumes
135
when is it a lifesaver? / on a leaf an insect / sleeps on a journey
136
in summer rain / the leg of the crane / becomes shorter
137
folly in darkness / grasping a thorn / instead of a firefly
138
a weird dark night / a fox crawls on the ground / for a beautiful melon
139
hibiscus flower / naked I wear one / in my hair
140
have they picked tea / don’t they know the withering / winds of autumn
141
a night secret / a worm under the moon / bores in a chestnut
142
made of papier-mâché / the cat seems to know / an autumn morning
143
where was the shower / with umbrella in hand / the monk returns
144
snowy morning / all alone I chew / dried salmon
145
such a pine / it pulls out of the mist / with a ”yo ho heave ho”
146
gathering in waterweed / if catching an ice fish / it would disappear
147
ending the ending / only the echo of rice cakes / in lonely sleep
148
the gay boy / a plum and the willow / a woman
149
dirtying their sleeves / fishing for mud snails / no time for leisure
150
a white evening face flower / taking to the privy at night / a candle
151
the sexy servant boy / chants for flower viewing / hit tunes
152
old pond / a frog jumps into / the sound of water
153
a globefish in snow / the left team wins with / a carp in June
154
by morning glories / I gobble up rice slop / like a man
155
a crescent moon / at evening must be a closed / morning glory
156
an austere life / a lonely moon gazer’s / Nara tea songs
157
beard blown by wind / lamenting late in autumn / who is this child
158
to live in this world / as Sogi says is as long as / taking shelter from rain
159
a poor temple / frost on the iron kettle / has a cold voice
160
such heavy quilts / snow in the far country / is surely visible
161
New Year’s Day / looking back I am lonely / as an autumn evening
162
bush warbler / is it putting to sleep the spirit / of the lovely willow
163
flowers in this world / my wine is white / my rice dark
164
wake up wake up / I want to be your friend / little sleeping butterfly
165
butterfly butterfly / let me ask you about Chinese / poetry
166
cuckoo / plum flowers of the sixth month / have already bloomed
167
to hear the cuckoo / I’ve smudged my ears / with incense
168
mulberry fruit / without flowers a butterfly / is a hermit’s wine
169
green grain crackers / the wheat ears come out of / veggie cookies
170
a horse plodding along / seeing a picture of myself / in a summer field
171
the cuckoo / has stained the fish / I suppose
172
on the inn’s doorway / a name card to announce yourself / cuckoo
173
waving a white scarf / the doe comes closer to the stag / the isle of Oga
waving their fins / skipjack fish come closer / to the isle of Oga
174
ought one laugh or cry / when my morning glory / withers up
175
even in snow / the noon face flower does not wither / in the sun
176
by the noon face flower / the rice huller cools himself / how tasteful
177
offering / a yam on a lotus / because ”they are alike”
178
a white poppy / from a wintry shower / has blossomed
179
cuckoo / now as for haiku masters / none are in this world
180
shaggy white chrysanthemums / your long hair a disgrace / such long hair
181
almost full moon / tonight at thirty-nine years / a child
182
has the mountain cat / licked away all the snow / but in crevices
183
black forest / whatever you may say / a morning of snow
184
is it for me / the crane leaves rice with parsley / for me to eat
185
hearing hailstones / as if this body was / an old oak
186
bitter ice / the rat’s throat / barely moistened
187
spring arises / ten quarts of old rice / in the new year
188
seaweed soup / shows such skills / in a decorated bowl
189
glory to Buddha / on a pedestal of grass / such coolness
190
don’t forget / to enjoy the cool air at / Sayo of Nakayama
191
weather beaten / wind pierces my body / to my heart
192
ten autumns / Tokyo has become / my hometown
193
misty showers / the day one cannot see Mount Fuji / it is more attractive
194
clouds of fog / quickly doing their best to show / one hundred scenes
195
life of a priest / my name is swept away / in the River of Fallen Leaves
196
listening to the monkey’s cry / what would he say about a baby / abandoned to the autumn wind
197
near the roadside / my horse grazing / on hibiscus
198
dozing on horseback / half-dreaming the faraway moon / was smoke for morning tea
199
end of the month / no moon hugging an ancient cedar / in the storm
200
women washing yams / if Saigyo was here / he’d compose a poem
women washing yams / / if Saigyo was here / they’d compose a poem
201
orchid fragrance / from the butterfly’s wings / perfuming the clothes
202
ivy planted / with four or five bamboo / an autumn storm
203
if taken in my hand / it would vanish in hot tears / autumn frost
204
cotton-beating bow / as something as a lute / behind the bamboo
205
priest and morning glory / how many times reincarnated / under pine tree law
206
dew drips drips / wanting to rinse away / this dust of this world
207
not knowing winter / the house where rice is hulled / the sound of hail
208
strike the pounding block / so I can hear it / temple wife
209
the imperial tomb ages / what do you recall enduring / fern of remembrance
210
Yoshitomo’s heart / was perhaps similar to / the autumn wind
211
buried in moss / the absent-minded ivy / a Buddhist prayer
212
autumn winds / in the thickets an fields / Fuwa’s fence
autumn winds / like thickets and fields / the indestructible barrier
213
not yet dead / but sleeping at journey’s end / autumn evening
214
leaves scatter / light from the cherry tree / on a cypress-slat hat
215
how harsh / the sound of hailstones / on a cypress-slat hat
216
a winter peony / the plovers must be / a cuckoo in snow
217
coming for pleasure / and to angle for globefish / going as far as seven miles
218
even a horse / is something to see / on a snowy morning
219
into this sea / throwing my sandals / rain on my hat
220
”Song of the Lute” / at night banjo music / sound of hail
221
buying a cookie / even the ferns are withered / at a rest stop
222
market folks / I will sell my hat as a / snow-covered umbrella
223
at dawn / the white of an ice fish / just one inch long
224
snow on snow / this night in December / a full moon
225
moons and flowers / these are the true ones / the masters
226
comical poetry / in a winter wind I resemble / a poor poet-doctor
227
New Year’s festival / I’d like to celebrate it in the capital / with a friend
228
who is the bridegroom / carrying rice cakes on ferns / in the year of the ox
229
without a hat / a winter rain falls on me / so what
230
the year ends / while still wearing my cypress hat / putting on straw sandals
231
grass pillow / a dog also in the cold rain / on a night of voices
232
the sea darkens / and the duck’s voice / is faintly white
233
a wandering crow / its old nest has become / a plum tree
234
the plan / for Kiso in April / blossom viewing
235
surely it is spring / in the nameless mountains / a thin haze
236
drawing water / by monks from the icy / sound of clogs
drawing water / the sound of the clogs / of the freezing monks
237
earliest spring / selling plum flower wine / the fragrance
238
a world of fragrance / in one branch of plum blossoms / a wren
239
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lying down drunk / wild pinks bloom / on the stones
302
tofu pulp / without a mother in the house/ so dreary
303
a flash of lightning / your hand takes in darkness / a paper candle
304
even a long day / is not enough for the singing / of a skylark
305
in the middle of a field / with nothing to cling to / a skylark sings
306
summer rain / the grebe’s floating nest / tempts me to see it
307
now I am good / wearing the cloth / of a cicada robe
308
growing melons / ”I wish you were here” / in the evening coolness
309
melon flower / what kind of water drop / was forgotten
310
summer rain / the bucket hoop splits / a night voice
311
hair grown long / a pale bluish face / in rainy season rain
312
a morning glory / even drawn badly / is charming
313
mid-harvest / a crane on the rice paddy / in a village in autumn
314
a peasant’s child / stops hulling rice / gazes at the moon
315
taro leaves / waiting for the moon in a village / where they burn fields
316
sleeping at a temple / with my true face / moon viewing
317
the moon passes quickly / treetops are still holding / the rain
318
a field of bush clover / one night’s lodging / for a wild dog
319
sleep on a journey / then you will understand my poem / autumn winds
320
this pine / sprouted in the age of the gods / now in autumn
321
rising up / chrysanthemums are faint / in a trace of water
322
growing thin / the pitiful mum bush / bears a bud
323
clarifying the sound / the Big Dipper echoes /the pounding block
324
everything / that beckons dies in the end / pampas grass
325
moths in a straw raincoat / come listen to their voice / in a thatched hut
326
inside the world / of rice harvest time / a straw hut
327
a traveler / now call me by that name / first shower of winter
328
like a ridge / a cloud showers / now on Mount Fuji
329
halfway to Kyoto / in the middle of the sky / clouds of snow
330
”look into / the darkness of Star Cape” / is this the plowers’ cry?
331
burning dried pine needles / to dry my hand towel / such coldness
332
winter sun / frozen on horseback / the priest’s shadow
333
though it’s cold / two sleeping together tonight / feels comfortable
334
on snow and sand / you can fall off a horse / drunk on wine
335
Cape Irago / nothing resembles it / like the hawk’s voice
336
more reassuring / than in a dream / the real hawk
337
a single hawk / finds me happy at / the Cape of Irago
338
just as I feared / extremely desolate / frost ont he house
339
plums and camellias / praising the early blossoms / in a prized village
340
with barley growing / what a fine shelter you have / in Farm Fields
341
first celebrate / the flowers in your heart / confined in winter
342
taking medicine / it is as bad as having / frost on the pillow
343
crossing Hakone / it seems there are people / on a snowy morning
344
how interesting / it seems the snow becomes / winter rain
345
polished again / the mirror is as clear as / flower-like snowflakes
346
smoothing out the wrinkles / to attend the snow-viewing party / a paper robe
347
now farewell / for snow viewing we’ll fall down / until we get there
348
well, let’s go / we will fall down snow viewing / until we get there
349
frozen dew / a dry brush draws / clear water
350
if on foot / I’d use one on Walking Stick Hill / falling off a horse
351
sleeping on a journey / an inn at the end of the year / an evening moon
352
on a journey / I have seen the world’s / annual housecleaning
353
my hometown / weeping over my navel cord / at the year’s end
354
again on the second day / I will not fail / the flowers of spring
355
in all directions / the chopped herbs are / confused
356
spring begins / still on the ninth day / in mountains and fields
357
like Akokuso’s heart / I can’t ever know / plum blossoms
358
to smell the odor / peat dug from the hill / of plum blossoms
359
blowing his snotty nose / such a sound with the plum / in bloom
360
shrine virgin / only one lovely enough / for plum blossoms
361
red plum / creating unobtainable love / blinds of a noble lady
362
what kind of tree / with the unknown flower / such a fragrance
363
tell of the sorrows / of this mountain temple / old yam digger
364
shrine fence / unexpectedly the shock / of Buddha’s picture
365
wine cup / don’t drop in any dirt / village swallows
366
wearing a paper robe / even if it gets wet / picking flowers in the rain
367
doorway curtain / deep in the interior a wife / plum blossoms
368
on one plum tree / blossoms – mistletoe / on another
369
first of all / may I ask the name of the reed / with young leaves
370
staying among flowers / from beginning to end / about twenty days
371
taro planted / at the corner young leaves / of bedstraw
372
go naked / one needs to wear more clothes / in February’s storm
373
for these past days / giving thanks to the flowers / farewell
374
at Yoshino / I’ll show the cherry blossoms / my cypress hat
375
many various / things come to mind / cherry blossoms
376
spring night / someone in retreat is lovely / in the temple corner
377
first cherry blossoms / it just happens to be / a good day
378
higher than the lark / resting in the sky / on the mountain pass
379
drinking friends / to talk I’ll hang over like this / waterfall of flowers
380
waterfall blossoms / will be a souvenir / for my drinking friends
381
with a fan / drinking wine in the shadow / of scattered blossoms
382
if I had a good voice / I would chant until / cherry blossoms scatter
383
shaded by blossoms / it is like song in a play / resting on a journey
384
cherry blossom viewing / something admirable every day in / ten to twelve miles
385
spring rain / trickling down a tree / clear water spring
386
melting away / the brush draws up the water / of a spring
387
blossoms at their peak / the mountain the same as always / at daybreak
388
still I want to see / a flower in first light / a god’s face
389
patter patter / petals of tiny flowers drop / a waterfall of sound
390
a day of flowers darkens / with the sadness of the false cypress / tomorrow I will become
391
father and mother / are missed so much / the pheasant’s voice
392
departing spring / at th eBay of Poetry / I catch up with it
393
taking one robe off / tossing it over my shoulder / clothes-changing day
394
Buddha’s birthday / on this very day is born / a fawn
395
deer antler / now branching at the joint / farewell
396
with young leaves / I would like to wipe away / the tears in your eyes
397
both weary / taking lodging at the same time / wisteria flowers
398
fading temple bell / the fragrance of flowers strikes / at evening
399
villagers / composing songs to rice / a sin the capital
400
rabbit-ear iris / talking about a trip / is one of its delight
401
honorable figure / I will bow down to / rabbit-ear iris
402
iris flower / has withered overnight / play’s leading actor
403
withered grass / a little shimmer of heat / one or two inches
404
fifteen feet high / the heat shimmer high / above the stone
405
the cuckoo / disappears in the direction / of one island
406
an octopus jar / the short-lived dreams / of the summer moon
407
not hiding / at the lodge green vegetable soup / with red peppers
408
in blowing wind / a fish jumps up / purification rite
409
scooped by hands / yet it shocks my teeth / spring water
410
a delight / cooling oneself in a rice paddy / the sound of water
411
there’s a moon / yet it’s as if something is missing / Suma in summer
412
seeing the moon / is not enough / summer in Suma
413
Suma’s fishermen’s / arrowheads ahead of the cry / cuckoo
414
faces of fishermen / first of all it’s possible to see / poppy flowers
415
the Suma temple / hearing the unplayed flute / in the shade of green leaves
416
land snail / wave your horns between / Suma and Akashi
417
washing my feet / I fall asleep for the short night / with my clothes on
418
these fireflies / let me compare them with the moon / in rice paddies
419
still before my eyes / cherry blossoms of Yoshino / fireflies of Seta
420
leaves of grass / as soon as it drops it flies / a firefly
421
summer rains / wondering if it’ll disappear / the Seta Bridge
422
the summer world / floating in the lake / on the waves
423
clear at the lake / yet it rains on Mount Hiei / departing of May
424
gourd flowers / in autumn various varieties / of gourds
425
bindweed / because of short nights / taking a nap
426
in bindweed flowers / something takes a nap / on a mountain bed
427
I want to stay here / until the day the goose-foot / is a walking stick
428
mountain shade / body to rest awhile / as a melon field
429
the frail one / compared to a flower / in a summer field
430
temple bell / as if it rings with / the cicada’s call
431
castle ruins / an old well with spring water / I will visit first
432
nothing compares / to Nagara’s river of / pickled sweet smelt
433
exciting / but sad when it is over / cormorant boats
434
this neighborhood / everything that comes to the eye / is seen as cool
435
coming in summer / the tongue fern only has / one leaf
436
like nothing / it has been compared to / the crescent moon
437
already harvested / the earliest rice on one side / sandpiper’s voice
438
that cloud / waiting for lightning or a sign / of the wife-god of rice
439
what a good house / the sparrow is delighted with / millet at the back door
440
millet among millet / nothing is scanthy here / in a thatched hut
441
lotus pond / leave the leaves for / the ancestor’s festival
442
one who died / now her robe with small sleeves / hung out to air
443
early autumn / the sea and rice fields / one green
444
various grasses / each flower / an achievement
445
morning glories / ignoring the revelers / in full bloom
446
trembling feeble / yet even more so with dew / lady flowers
447
travel-weary / how many days of this? / autumn wind
448
seeing someone off / his back looks lonely / in the autumn wind
449
being seen off / and in the end be parted / autumn at Kiso
450
being seen off / and finally seeing off / autumn in kiso
451
the image shows / an old woman weeping alone / my friend the moon
452
hot radish / piercing the body / autumn wind
453
Kiso’s horse chestnuts / for people weary of the world / a souvenir
454
blowing away / the stones of the volcano / a typhoon
455
passing through autumn / a butterfly seems to lick / chrysanthemum dew
456
which is better today / the lingering moon or / leftover mums
457
sixteenth night moon / lingering still in Sarashina / County
458
lantern plant / fruit and leaves and shells / are autumn colors
459
with that moon / I wish to paint glitter / on the inn
460
swinging bridge / lives are intertwined / in ivy vines
461
swinging bridge / first one thinks of / meeting horses
462
moonlight / four gates and four sects / just one
463
ivy leaves / giving the feeling of antiquity / autumn foliage
464
what do poor folks eat / the small house of autumn / in willow shadow
465
the thinness of Kiso / through not yet recovered / the late moon
466
departing autumn / pulling closer to the body / a single quilt
467
I want to borrow / the scarecrow’s sleeves / midnight frost
468
this mallet / was it originally from a camellia / or a plum tree?
469
when saying something / my lips are cold / autumn wind
470
the full moon / shines like the 51-article law / of the feudal lord
471
owing to the emperor’s kindness / people are thriving as well / as their fires
472
chrysanthemums and cockscombs / all cut off for the memorial service / of Saint
Nichiren
473
winter confinement / again I’ll lean on / this post
474
five or six / siting with tea and cakes / a fireplace
475
hackberries falling / sound of a gray starling’s wings / on a stormy morning
476
a withering wind / hiding int he bamboo / has calmed down
477
snow we two / watched last year / is it falling again
478
day and night / who waits on Pine Island / with a one-sided heart
479
his figure / wishing to see in a dead tree / the length of his staff
480
lying down / with quilts over the head / such a cold night
481
dying charcoal fire / extinguished by tears / a boiling sound
482
off to buy rice / in the snow the empty sack / a cloth hood
483
everyone bows to / the sacred rope around the wedded rocks / end of the year
484
no doubt / flowers of the sea waters / springtime on the bay
485
a famous artist / what is the source of sadness / at the year’s end
486
bottom of discretion / has been reached / end of the year
487
New Year’s Day / longing to see the sun in Tagoto’s / rice paddies
488
for what / in this year’s-end market / goes a crow
489
staying indoors / the only friend of bedstraw / a vendor of greens
490
even bedstraw / has tender new leaves / a dilapidated house
491
how enticing / in the spring of this year / again on a journey
492
heat shimmer / rising from the shoulders / my paper robe
493
a skylark sings / the pheasant’s voice is / the instrumental music
494
drinking saké / without flowers or moon / one is alone
495
a door of grass / the resident changes for a time / a home of dolls
496
baby sweet fish / seeing off the ice fish / farewell
497
spring departing / birds cry and in the fishes’ / eyes are tears
498
heat threads / tie together to hold / the smoke
499
the setting sun / a thread of heat haze / as remnant
500
a bell at sunset / also was not heard / a spring evening
501
no bell ringing / what does the village do / on a spring evening
502
how glorious / young green leaves / flash in the sun
503
for a while / secluded behind the waterfall / summer retreat begins
504
cuckoo / seen from behind the waterfall / both sides
505
carrying hay / a man is the marker / in a summer field
506
letting the mountain / move into the garden / a summer room
507
in a barley field / especially in summer / the cuckoo
508
a summer mountain / I pray to the wooden clogs / at departure
509
a crane calls / its voice couldn’t tear / a banana leaf
510
even woodpeckers / do not damege this hut / a summer grove
511
across the field / the horse pulls toward / the cuckoo
512
is it falling down? / the inn at Takaku / a cuckoo
513
The Killing
Stone
the stone’s stench / even reddish summer grass / has hot dew
514
scooping hot water / the vow is the same as one / rock spring water
515
one patch of a rice field / when it was planted I left / the willow tree
516
from west or east / first of the young rice in / the sound of the wind
517
border guard / I regret I was not a bird / to knock at you door
518
early summer rains / falling so heavily they cover up / the waterfall
519
roots of elegance / on this trip to the far north / rice-planting song
520
men of this world / fail to find the flowers / chestnut under the eaves
521
hide-a-way / unseen flowers on the chestnut / near the eaves
522
picking up rice seedlings / hands move as in days of old / ferns of remembrance
523
backpack and sword / decoreated in May / with paper fish banners
524
Rainhat Island / where is it in May / a muddy road
525
since the cherry blossoms / I’ve waited three months to see / the twin-trunk pine
526
iris leaves / I tie them to my feet / as sandal cords
527
many islands / broken into pieces / summer’s sea
528
summer grass / the only remains of soldiers’ / dreams
529
early summer rains / their falling leaves untouched / golden hall of light
530
firefly’s glow / disappears at daylight / behind the pillar
531
fleas and lice / now a horse pisses / by my pillow
532
making the coolness / my own dwelling place / here I sit
533
crawling out / from under the shed / toad’s voice
534
an eyebrow brush / is the image drawn by / safflower blossoms
535
such stillness / piercing the rock / a cicada’s voice
536
mountain temple / deeply staining the rock / cicada’s voice
537
loneliness / seeping into the rock / cicada’s voice
538
summer rains / quickly gathered / Mogami River
539
the water’s source / in an ice cavern if I ask / the willow
540
the scent of wind / from the south not far from / the Mogami River
541
admirable / snow gives its scent to / the south valley
542
admirable / making the snow fragrant / sound of the wind
543
admirable / making the snow go around / the wind’s sound
544
coolness / a crescent moon faintly seen / over Black Feather Mountain
545
this jewel his soul / will return to Black Feather Mountain / the moon of sacred law
546
asking the four sleepers / about moon and flower poetry / snoring
547
cloud peaks / how many have crubled / on the mountain of the moon
548
not permitted to tell / how sleeves are wetted / in the bathroom
549
how rare / on leaving the Dewa mountains / the first eggplant
550
a hot day’s sun / taken into the sea / by the Mogami River
551
Kisagata silk tree / is a Chinese beauty in the rain / a sleeping flower
552
Kisagata rain / with the Chinese beauty asleep / a silk tree in bloom
553
a clear night / cooling myself under cherry trees / waves of flowers
554
low tide crossing / the crane’s shank is wetted / with the sea’s coolness
555
Mount Atsumi / over to Blowing Beach / to enjoy a cool breeze
556
herb garden / which of the flowers are for / a grass pillow?
557
are the relatives / of a notorious bandit holding / a memorial service
558
July / ordinarily the sixth night / is not like this
559
a rough sea / stretching over to Sado / heaven’s river
560
the shape of branches / changing every day / a hibiscus
561
the voice of a dove / pierces my body / cave entrance
562
the first melon / shall it be cut crosswise / or into round slices?
563
small fish skewered / by the willow twigs’ coolness / the fisherman’s wife
564
in one house / prostitutes lie down to sleep / bush clover and the moon
565
the scent of early rice / coming in from the right / the Ariso Sea
566
the tomb also shakes / my weeping voice is / the autumn wind
567
autumn coolness / each peeling with our hands / melons and eggplats
568
red more red / in spite of the indifferent sun / an autumn breeze
569
a lovely name / at little Pines blows / bush clover and thatch reed
570
to get wet passing by / a man is interesting / bush clover in rain
571
how pitiful / under the armored helmet / a cricket
572
alas how cruel / under the armored helmet / a cricket
573
Stone Mountain / whiter than its stones / autumn wind
574
at Yamanaka / it’s not necessary to pluck chrysanthemums / hot spring fragrance
575
a peach tree / do not scatter its leaves / winds of autumn
576
fishing flares / the fish in the ripples / chokes with tears
577
tonight my skin / will miss the hot spring / it seems colder
578
missing the hot springs / how often looking back / at their mist
579
from this day on / dew will erase the writing / on my hat
580
sweeping the garden / I want to leave in the temple / scattered willow leaves
581
writing something / vigorously tearing up the fan / at the parting
582
writing something / pulling apart the torn fan / missing someone
583
let's visit the places / best for seeing the moon / sleeping on a journey
584
Shallow Water / a journey of moon viewing / at dawn parting
at shallow water / a journey for moon viewing / departs at dawn
585
tomorrow's moon / I can forecast rain by the sun / on Mount Hina
586
the moon's name / it is difficult to cover up / the yam of a god
587
at Nakayama / the moon on the sea coast road / is alive again
588
in many places / of eight famous scenes / the moon of Kehi
589
go moon viewing / before the reeds of Tamae / are cut off
590
the moon clear / on sand carried over here / by a saint
591
the famous general / awakening on this mouintain / saw a sad moon
592
harvest moon / weather in the northern areas / is unsettled
593
where is the moon / the temple bell has sunk / to the bottom of the sea
594
not only the moon / but the wrestling match also / canceled by rain
595
an ancient name / missing the deer horn / moon of autumn
596
putting on a robe / to pick up small shellfish / moon of colors
597
small flower scraps / small red-beauty shells / small wine cups
598
loneliness / Suma is outdone by / Hama's autumn
loneliness / claritiy is only outdone / by an autumn beach
599
between the waves / small shells mingle with / bits of bush clover
600
a clam / torn
from its shell / departing autumn
601
just as it is
/ without depending ont he moon / Ibuki Mountain
602
hurry up and
bloom / the festival approaches / chrysanthemum flowers
603
staying inside
/ trees' fruit and grasses' seeds / are what I want to gather
604
wisteria beans
/ let's make a poem as / the result of flowers
605
what a retreat!
/ with the moon and mums / in an acre of rice paddies
606
Saigyó's
straw sandals / hanging from the pine tree / dew
607
look sad moon
/ while I tell the story / of a warrior's wife
608
I am weary /
so now make me lonely / as a temple in autumn
609
autumn wind
/ in the graveyard of Ise / more dreadful
610
in holiness
/ people pushed by others / for shrine renewal
611
entering a gate
/ sago palms with the fragrance / of orchids
612
"inkstone"
/ picking up a hollow stone / with dew
613
first winter
rain / even the monkey seems to want / a little straw raincoat
614
not yet a butterfly
/ even as autumn passes / the caterpillar
615
these people
/ showering down on this house / in spite of the cold
616
winter garden
/ the moon and insects' song / a thin thread
617
a folding screen
/ with a painting of a mountain / winter confinement
618
gathering mushrooms
/ the dangerous thing is / an evening shower
619
now children
/ come run among jewels / hailstones
620
the first snowfall
/ using a rabbit skin / to make a beard
621
first snowfall
/ when will they erect the columns / for the Buddha image
622
have the monks
/ gone first to the poet's grave / bowl bell ringers
623
departing for
White Mountain / by a borrowed palanquin / a cold shower
624
the story /
of the famous poet nun / a village in snow
625
this is it /
not stained by worldly soot / a covered wooden bowl!
626
if it hails
/ ice fish from the trap / I'll serve cooked
627
wrapped in a
straw mat / who can this great one be / flowers of spring
628
go see it /
the Festival of the Otters / downstream the river
629
spring rain
/ leaves on the sprouts / of eggplant seeds
630
this seed /
is not to be underrated / red pepper
631
yam seed vendor
/ when cherries are in bloom / a business trip
632
pines on the
bank / blossoms in the thick woods / make a mansion
633
well-matched
/ rice balls covered with roasted soy flour / cherry blossom gathering
634
plowing a field
/ the sound of a violent storm / for hemp blossoms
635
a grass pillow
/ is the best to use when coming / to view cherry blossoms
636
under the trees
/ soup and pickles / cherry blossoms
637
butterfly wings
/ how many times have they flown / over the wall's roof
638
are you the
butterfly / and I Chuang Tzu's / dreaming heart
639
these villagers
/ all are descendants / of flower guards
640
from all directions
/ blossoms blow into / waves of Lute Lake
641
heat shimmer
/ the medicinal herb's sprout is / slightly hazy
642
mountain cherries
/ first of all the two / tiled roofs
643
bush warbler
/ has dropped his hat / camellia
644
departing spring
/ with the people of Ómi / we missed it
645
daybreak / not
yet lavender / the cuckoo
646
a nun living
alone / cold-hearted in a thatched house / a white azalea
647
missing a wife
/ putting on bamboo grass / [unfinished]
648
summer grass
/ I will go ahead to hunt / for the snakes
650
dreadful to
hear / that they eat snakes / a pheasant's voice
651
above all else
/ a dependable chinquapin tree stands / in a summer grove
652
neither evening
/ nor morning belongs to / the melon flower
653
path of the
sun / the hollyhock leans into / early summer rain
654
oranges / when
do they come to the fields / cuckoo birds
655
firefly viewing
/ when the boatman is drunk / unsteady
656
each with its
own light / fireflies in the trees / lodge in flowers
657
a river breeze
/ one wearing a light persimmon robe / enjoys the coolness
658
even in Kyoto
/ longing for Kyoto / the cuckoo
659
don't be like
me / even though we're like the melon / split in two
660
a dragonfly
/ unable to settle / on the grass
661
a wild boar
/ it is also blown about / by the typhoon
662
at my house
/ the smallness of the mosquitoes / in my treat
663
soon to die
/ yet showing no sign / the cicada's voice
664
a silk tree
/ even though the leaves weary / of starlight
665
festival of
the dead / even today there is smoke / from the crematorium
666
full moon /
acolytes form a line / on a temple veranda
667
full moon /
the ocean welcomes / seven Komachi
668
moon viewing
/ no party without / a pretty face
669
moonrise / their
hands in their laps / about evening
670
moonrise / their
hands on their knees / inside at evening
671
moonrise / holding
their hands on their knees / evening at a house
672
to hear the
wild goose / in my reason to go / to the capital in autumn
673
a cricket /
the forgotten faint voice / of a foot warmer
674
pulling out
white hairs / underneath the pillow / a cricket
675
fisherman's house / small shrimps mixed in / with camel crickets
676
a butterfly
also comes / to sip the vinegar on the chrysanthemum / salad
677
after a frost
/ some wild carnations still bloom / on the brazier
678
drinking morning
tea / the monk is quiet / as is the mum flower
679
the grass gate
/ recognize it by the smartweed / red peppers
680
by the paulownia
tree / the quail seem to be calling / behind a wall
681
turn this way
/ I am also lonely / this autumn evening
682
a sick goose
/ falling into the night's coldness / sleep on a journey
683
a withering
blast / the pain of a swelling / on a man's face
684
an early winter
shower / a rice paddy with new stubble / darkens just a bit
685
with lightning
/ one is not enlightened / how valuable
686
first snowfall
/ the traveling monk's / faded backpack
687
snow falling
/ pampas reeds for the shrine hut / still not cut
688
unable to settle
down / the traveling heart remains / a portable heater
689
dried salmon
/ and the lay-monk's thinness / the cold within
690
wait awhile
/ cut the soybeans to the sound / of monks beating bowls
691
carolers / the
elegance when they come / in early December
692
year-end housecleaning
/ blowing through the cedars / a vilolent storm
693
three feet high
/ a storm in the mountain / of a tree's leaves
694
Stone Mountain's
/ stones shower down / hail
695
building a bridge
/ between snow-covered mountains / white egrets
696
usually hateful
/ however a crow on a snowy / morning
697
for half a day
/ my friend turns into a god / end-of-the-year party
698
having someone
else / buy a house makes me / forget a year of troubles
699
souvenir paintings / what kind of a brush first drew / the image of Buddha
700
disappeared
/ end of the year in the lake / a little grebe
701
mountain village
/ holiday carolers are as late as / plum blossoms
702
plovers fly
away / the evening grows later with / cold mountain wind
703
how precious
/ a day without rain or snow / straw cape and hat
704
plums and young
greens / at the post town of Mariko / grated yam soup
705
high-spirited
Kiso / under the snow it grows / spring grass
706
the secent of
plum / a series of storybooks / for children
707
waiting for
the moon / plum blossoms lean toward / a child mountain ascetic
708
barley soup
/ grown thin from love / the cat's wife
709
year after year
/ the cherry tree nourished by / fallen blossoms
710
yellow flowers
/ stuck in a hat just right / for a branch shape
711
drink up / we'll
make a flower vase / out of the cask
712
lemon flowers
/ recalling olden times / in the serving room
713
laziness / helped
out of bed / by spring rain
714
laziness / jerked
awake / by spring rain
715
getting weak
/ when a tooth bites down / sand in seaweed
716
summer rain
/ where the poem card peeled off / a mark on the wall
717
wrapping dumplings
/ with one hand brushing back / her bangs
718
a bamboo shoot
/ when I was a child it was / fun to sketch
719
for a while
/ flowers are above / the night's moon
720
a cuckoo / in
a bamboo thicket / leaking moonlight
721
day after day
/ barley ripens / a singing skylark
722
a cool breeze
/ the collar of his jacket / is crooked
723
yellow roses
/ at Uji the fragrance / of roasting tea leaves
724
rice paddy sparrows
/ shelter in the tea plants / when chased away
725
the month of
June / like someone with a cold / the heat
726
already sad
/ now make me lonely too / mountain cuckoo
727
summer's night
/ the tree spirit follows in / the sound of wooden shoes
728
clapping my
hands / the echo as it dawns / of a summer moon
729
good for nothing
/ I am so drowsy / reed warbler too loud
730
disjointed /
the fates of people become / as a bamboo shoot
731
begonia flowers
/ blooming in the colors / of a watermelon
732
darkness of
night / lost from its nest / cry of the plover
733
cattle shed
/ dark sound of mosquitoes / in summer heat
734
early autumn
/ the folded mosquito net / as a blanket
735
an autumn wind
/ blowing yet how green / chestnut burrs
736
reed plumes
/ I fear they might seize my head / at Rashomon
737
autumn color
/ even without having / a pickle jar
738
loneliness /
hung on a nail / a cricket
739
giving rice
/ my friend this evening / guest of the moon
740
appearing easily
/ it now seems to hesitate / a cloudy moon
741
wanting to knock
/ on the Floating Temple's gate / tonight's moon
742
unlock the door
/ let the moon come into / the Floating Temple
743
harvest moon
/ even coming twice in a year / the moon of Seta
744
a late moon
/ enough to cook shrimp / evening darkens
745
gazing at buckwheat
/ a field of bush clover / becomes envious
746
sometimes /
vinegar on mum flowers becomes / an appetizer
747
noodles / building
a fire underneath / a night's cold
748
an indication
/ of the garden's hundred years / fallen leaves
749
grandfather
and parents / the prosperity of grandchildren / in persimmons and oranges
750
Storm Mountain
/ in a thicket's dense growth / a line of wind
751
a grass hut
/ the setting sun gives me / chrysanthemum wine
752
the hawk's eye
also / already it has darkened / the quail call
753
by the bridge
girder / ferns recalling the past / of a nearly full moon
754
nine times /
waking with the moon / still four A.M.
755
pine mushroom
/ a leaf from an unknown tree / stick to it
756
the paulownia
leaf / moves on the autumn wind / frost in the ivy
757
deep-rooted
leeks / when finished washing / the coldness
758
narcissus and
/ whiteness of a paper screen / reflect each other
759
tastefully designed
/ the garden is enlivened / by winter showers
760
withering wind
/ is the fragrance still attached / to the late-blooming flower
withering wind
/ has it been colored by / a late-blooming flower
761
rice threshing
/ an old woman celebrated / with mum flowers
762
feeling holy
/ the tears that stain / fallen leaves
763
once in a while
/ I see my own breath / winter confinement
764
leaving Kyoto
/ traveling with the gods / numbering the days
765
tired of Kyoto
/ this withering wind / and winter life
766
waiting for
snow / the faces of those who like to drink / a flash of lightning
767
a withering
blast / sharpening the rocks / between the cedars
768
one healer /
gotten by praying / on a jouney
769
rented lodge
/ introducing my name / as cold winter rain
770
pack horse driver
/ he does not know the cold rain / of Oi River
771
during the absence
/ of the gods it goes to ruin / fallen leaves
772
anyway / nothing
happened - snow / on withered pampas grass
773
kudzu leaves
/ showing on the front side / frost this morning
774
wild geese honking
/ is this the coldest rain / in Toba's paddy fields
775
fish or bird / one can never know the hearts / at a year-end party
776
was it a bush
warbler / poop on the rice cake / on the veranda's edge
777
people do not
see / spring in a mirror / plum blossoms on the back
778
their color
/ whiter than peaches / a narcissus
779
cats in love
/ in the bedroom when they stop / is a hazy moon
780
how enviable
/ living north of the secular world / mountain cherry
781
in both hands
/ peach and cherry blossoms / veggie rice crackers
782
know my heart
/ the flower on these / five lided bowls
783
counting as
I go / villa by villa / plum and willows
784
the cuckoo /
singing about five feet / of iris leaves
785
under a crescent
moon / the ground is hazy / with buckwheat flowers
786
a banana leaf
/ let's hang it on a post / of the moon's cottage
787
not sleeping
in flowers / it's just like the rat / leaving its nest
788
cuckoo / whose
old singing voice / in the inkstone case
789
probably it
was alive / when it left Kamakura / the first tuna
790
in June / having
salted whale is better than / sea bream
791
on the gable
/ the sunlight dims / evening coolness
792
on the Chinese
gable / light of the setting sun thins / to evening coolness
793
seven plants
/ of bush clover become a thousand / autumn star
794
pinks / their
heat is forgotten with / wild chrysanthemums
795
misty rain /
the skies of the hibiscus / weather
796
the full moon
/ coming up to the gate / the tide's salty crests
797
along with autumn
/ I would like to go to / Little Pine River
798
upstream and
/ downstream these are friends / for moon viewing
799
departure /
but also a hopeful future / a green orange
800
departing autumn
/ all the more hopeful / a green orange
801
though green
/ and yet it is changed / red pepper
802
they seem stained
/ a dreary rat-gray / the sleeves' color
803
first frost
/ when mums start to feel chilly / I get a cotton waist warmer
804
today is the
day / people grow older / first wintry shower
805
opening the
fireplace / the plasterer is getting old / frost on his sideburns
806
opening a tea
jar / I long for the garden / of Sakai
807
salted sea bream
/ its gums are also cold / in a fish shop
808
memorial service
/ five gallons of saké / like oil
809
moon and flowers
/ the stupidity pricked by a needle / entering the coldest season
810
sweeping the
garden / the snow forgotten / by the broom
811
banked fire
/ on the wall a shadow / of the guest
812
come closer
/ to look at the vase / of plum and camellia
813
how very tasteful
/ amusing the heart / at the year's end
814
carolers / the
sparrow's smile / at their appearance
815
clams survived
/ and became valuable / year's end
816
year after year
/ the monkey wearing / a monkey mask
817
slowly spring
/ is making an appearance / moon and plum
818
glass noodles
/ the winning vendor today / has young greens
819
glass noodles'
/ few slices of fish / plum blossoms
820
on his grave
/ wild violets make me sadder / than angelica
821
first horse
day / was your head shaved / by a fox
822
ice fish / their
dark eyes are open / in the net of the law
823
crane feathers
/ in a black robe / clouds of flowers
824
dew on bamboo
grass / has moistened a man's skirt / a bush
825
leave aside
/ literary talents / tree peony
826
cuckoo / its
voice lies over / the water
827
one cry / lies
on the inlet / the cuckoo's
828
also be like
/ the heart of the chinquapin's flower / on a trip to Kiso
829
a traveler's
heart / it also should look like / chinquapin flowers
830
learn to travel
/ as one above trifles / flies of Kiso
831
this temple
/ the garden is full / of banana trees
832
evening faces
flowers / putting a drunken face / out the window
833
children / bindweed
is blooming / let's peel a melon
834
hey children
/ if bindweed is blooming / let's peel a melon
835
by a window
/ a nap on the bed / of a bamboo mat
836
fishy smell
/ on top of the waterweed / fish guts
837
flood waters
/ stars too will have to sleep / on top of a rock
838
mushrooms /
not yet that many days / of autumn dew
839
pine mushroom
/ with its ragged top it's / like a pine tree
840
still summer
/ the harvest moon too hot / to enjoy the coolness
841
moon past full
/ the beginning of a little more / darkness
842
autumn wind
/ sadly breaking off / the mulberry staff
843
did you see
/ on the seventh-day ceremony over your grave / the crescent moon
844
the moon disappears
/ afterward the desk has / four corners
845
that moon /
reminds me ofthe day he performed / without a mask
846
morning glories
/ in the daytime a lock lowered / on the gate
847
a morning glory
/ this also is not / my friend
848
growing old
/ one does not even know it / after forty
growing old
/ one who doesn't evn know it / is the chickadee
849
glistening dew
/ not spilling from bush clover / still it sways
850
a dewdrop from a mum / when it fell I picked up / a yam nodule
851
sunrise party
/ the mum's scent skewered / by the tofu kabob
852
chrysanthemum
flowers / bloom at the stonemason's / between stones
853
harp case /
at an antique shop's / back door mums
854
vast grassy
plain / may nothing touch you / but your hat
855
departing autumn
/ the urge to hide oneself / in a poppy
856
every morning
/ practicing to improve / a cricket
857
winter mums
/ covered with rice flour / edge of the grinder
858
after the mums
/ there is nothing more / except the radish
859
in the saddle
/ the small boy rides / an uprooted radish
860
monkey's master
/ beats the monkey's jacket / on a pounding block
861
monkey's master
/ the monkey and his life quiver / under the autumn moon
862
during the night
/ the bamboo freezes / a morning of frost
863
everyone comes
out / to appreciate the bridge / a frosty road
864
first snowfall
/ almost finished / on the bridge
865
at Naniwa /
the lid of the mud snail / winter confinement
866
with rice gruel
/ listening to a lute under the eaves / hailstones
867
the beach at
Suma / New Year's preparations are / a bundle of brushwood
868
on the gold
screen / the pine's great age / winter solitude
869
chrysanthemum
scent / in the garden a worn out / sandal's sole
870
winter chrysanthemum
/ it makes a sweet drink / in the front of the window
871
even human dew
/ doesn't fall out the mum / as ice
872
first wintry
shower / the first written word in my / wintry shower
873
opposing leaves
/ the flowers of the camellia / are indifferent
874
a feather-down
robe / wrapping warmth around / a wild duck's feet
875
a peddler's
/ wild ducks are pitiful / good fortune festival
876
wanting the
things / inside the bag / moons and flowers
877
god of good
fortune / made the pickle vendor / dress in fomal wear
878
childhood name
/ an old man I don't know / with a circular cap
879
"tired
of children" / for those who say rhat / there are no flowers
880
warriors / the
bitterness of pickles / in the talk
881
parsley baked
duck / first ice around the irrigation pond / at the mountain's foot
882
still alive / yet frozen into a block / sea cucumbers
883
dawn moon /
close to the end of the year / pounding rice
884
being urged
/ to hold a year-end party / a good mood
885
annual housecleaning
/ the carpenter hanging / his own shelf
886
New Year's decoration
/ I would like to hear from Ise / the first news
887
in the night
/ meeting a thief who also stole / the end of the year
888
once a year
/ it is gathered with respect / shepherd's purse
889
out of melted
snow / a thin light purple of / the herb sprout
890
the boy's bangs
/ still have the smell / of young grass
891
baby sparrows
/ exchange voices with / rats in the nest
892
on the sore
/ a willow's touch / bends
893
on the sore
/ the willow's bending / to touch it
894
oiled paper
umbrella / trying to push through / willows
895
plum blossom
scent / since ancient times the word / has been sorrowful
896
plum blossoms'
scent / the person I've never seen nor / had the nonor of meeting
897
plum scent /
suddenly the sun comes out / on a mountain road
898
plum blossom
scent / has chased away the return / of the cold
899
the lingering
scent / of orchid curtains / a private room
900
Buddha's death
day / wrinkled hands join / the prayer beads' sound
901
Buddha's birthday
/ wrinkled hands join / the prayer beads' sound
902
the bat also
/ emerging into this world / of birds in flowers
903
the world in
bloom / even to flowers a "Hail Buddha" / was chanted
904
green willow
/ drooping into the mud / low tide
905
eight or nine
feet up / in the sky rain falls from / a willow
906
spring rain
/ trickling into the wasp's nest / a leaky roof
907
bush warbler
/ behind the willow / before the thicket
908
for cherry blossom
viewing / the boat is slowly punted / by willows
909
spring rain
/ a straw rain cape blows back / as river willows
910
an old river
/ making big eyes / at the willow
911
spring night
/ at dawn with the cherry blossoms / it ends
912
blooming wildly
/ among the peach trees / first cherry blossoms
913
butterflies
and birds / restlessly they rise up / a cloud of flowers
914
how serious
/ the cat in love tramples on / the dog
915
cherry blossom
viewing / without a set of nested bowls / in my heart
916
Nara seven-fold
/ seven buildings in the temple / eight-petaled cherries
917
Saigyo's cottage
/ must be here somewhere / a garden of flowers
918
spring rain
/ mugwort grows taller / in a grassy lane
919
it is not cold
dew / but the honey of a flower / on the tree peony
920
hiding himself
/ can the tea pickers hear / the cuckoo
921
tofu pulp /
the willow's darkness / bends over
922
occasional rain
/ there is no need to worry / about rice seedlings
923
hydrangea /
a bush is the little garden / of a detached room
924
on Sweet William
/ a camphor tree is dropping / tears of dew
925
listen to an
old story / the feudal lord's warrior / was once a wrestler
926
ears of barley
/ depending on their grasp / at the farewell
927
ears of barley
/ grasping for support / at the farewell
928
at the time
of parting / carrying my hat in my hand / and a summer vest
929
coming to the
eye / especially at this time / May's Mount Fuji
930
dimly seen /
the chinaberry in rain / hazy weather
931
a bush warbler
/ a bamboo shoot in the grove / grieves of old age
932
early summer
rain / a silkworm sickens / on a mulberry farm
933
already bent
/ the bamboo waits for snow / what a sight
934
life's journey
/ plowing the patch of rice field / back and forth
935
coolness / appears
in the plan / of this house
936
for coolness
/ this Hida carpenter has / the house plans
937
road to Suruga
/ orange blossoms also / smell of tea
938
summer rains
/ the sky blows down / the Hello River
939
the lettuce
/ leaves are just as green / eggplant soup
940
squid vendor
/ his voice confused / with the cuckoo
941
flowers and
fruit / at the same time melons / at their peak
942
"the water
rail calls" / people say that is why / we stay at Saya
943
this house /
does not know the water rail / at its door
944
coolness / exactly
as a pine in the fields / the shape of a branch
945
even if it doesn't
rain / on a day to plant bamboo / a straw rain cape and hat
946
loaded with
brushwood / the horse returns to the rice paddy / transplanting casks of wine
947
the brushwood
door / the moon the same as it was / for the priest Amida
948
how touching
/ to exist after the storm / chrysanthemum
949
coolness / reflected
in a picture / of Saga's bamboo
950
fallen blossoms
/ birds also are astonished / at dust on the harp
951
a clear cascade
/ was the water drawn up / for jelly noodles
952
clear cascade
/ a summer moon on the waves / but no dust
953
Oi River / no
dust on the waves / just a summer's moon
954
the sixth month
/ clouds rest on the peak / of Storm Mountain
955
a wicker trunk
/ the coolness on one side / the first melon
956
morning dew
/ the muddy melon stained / with coolness
957
pine wind /
needles falling on the water's / cool sound
958
summer night
/ broken up at dawn / chilled food
959
boiled rice
slop / his old lady fans the treat / with evening coolness
960
plates and bowls
/ dimly in the darkness / evening coolness
961
evening faces
/ trying to peel a dried gourd / for sour rice
962
melon rind /
the place it is peeled / a graveyard
963
pine and cedar
/ to admire the wind / smell the sound
964
rippling waves
/ the fragrance of wind / in their rhythm
965
a lake / the
heat misses the clouds / on the peak
966
flutteringly
/ the fan is raised / to the peak of a cloud
967
legendary warrior
/ at the cherry blossom viewing / the actor
968
lightning flash
/ where the face was / pampas plume
969
lightning flash
/ flying toward the darkness / heron's voice
970
scent of lotus
blossom / goes to the eye through / the mask's nose
971
the narrow lane
/ of wrestler's grass / dew on flowers
972
hydrangea /
in the season of unlined robes / a light yellow
973
Star Festival
/ autumn has set in / first of the nights
974
Star Festival
/ autumn has set in / the first night
975
chilly coolness
/ my feet on the wall / for a midday nap
976
as autumn draws
near / our hearts feel closer / to this small tearoom
977
the whole household
/ walking staffs and gray hair / visiting graves
978
do not think
/ that "you didn't count" / festival of souls
979
departing autumn
/ to open one's hands / as a chestnut burr
980
my dwelling
/ the moon's square of light / at the window
981
old village
/ not a house without / a persimmon tree
982
under a clear
moon / the foothills' mist / is the field's cloud
983
flowers / of
the harvest moon appear / in cotton fields
984
the color of
wind / planted artlessly in a garden / bush clover
985
the color of
wind / planted artlessly / in an autumn garden
986
the color of
wind / planted artlessly / in a garden of reeds
987
white gourds
/ how we've all changed / the looks of a face
988
who this evening
/ sees the full moon of Yoshino / sixteen miles away
989
cockscomb /
when the geese come / still redder
990
the beginning
verse / should not resemble our faces / budding cherry blossoms
991
buckwheat /
still served with flowers / on a mountain road
992
crying "beeeee"
/ how sad the bellowing / of dear at night
993
the sun covered
/ by clouds for a while / migrating birds
994
in the scent
of mums / climbing up the dark pass / for a flower festival
995
smell of mums
/ in the ancient capital / are many Buddhas
996
scent of chrysanthemums
/ in Nara a long time ago / a handsome man
997
leaving the
mums / from Nara to Naniwa / a crescent moon night
998
a cricket /
does it get into the bed of / a wild boar
999
how pleasurable
/ sleeping late in autumn / as if master of the house
1000
pine wind /
does it go around the eaves / with departing autumn
1001
buying a measuring
box / I change my mind / about moon viewing
1002
already autumn
/ even sprinkles of rain / in the moon's shape
1003
new rice straw
/ it begins to appear already / wintry shower
1004
autumn night
/ dashed to bits / in conversation
1005
human voices
/ returning on this road / autumn's departure
1006
this road /
that no one goes on / autumn's departure
1007
this autumn
/ why getting older is like / a bird into clouds
1008
white chrysanthemums
/ looked at closely / no dust at all
1009
a clear moon
/ the red fox frightens / the boy-lover's friend
1010
autumn deepens
/ so what does he do / the man next door
1011
ill on a journey
/ dreams in a withered field / wander around
1012
clear cascade / scattered on the waves / green pine needles
AUTUMN
this autumn
as reason for growing old
a
cloud and a bird
the whole family
all with white hair and canes
visiting graves
souls' festival
today also there is smoke
from the crematory
lotus pond
as they are unplucked
Souls' Festival
Buddha's Death
Day
from wrinkled praying hands
the rosaries' sound
Mii Temple
knocking on the gate for a wish
today's moon
not to think
of yourself
as someone who did not count --
Festival of the Souls
the moon so
pure
a wandering monk carries it
across the sand
all night
autumn winds being heard
behind the mountains
blue seas
breaking waves smell of rice wine
tonight's moon
so clear the
sound
echoes to the Big Dipper
the fulling block
hair shaved
in a moon-shape
with their hands on their knees
in the early hours of night
the setting
moon
the thing that remains
four corners of his desk
sleeping in
the temple
the serious-looking face
is moon-viewing
the full moon
seven story-songs of a woman
turning towards the sea
viewing the
moon
no one at the party
has such a beautiful face
the farmer's
child
rests from husking rice
then sees the moon
occasional clouds
one gets a rest
from moon-viewing
famous moon!
circling the pond all night
even to the end
buying a measure
box
now I feel differently
about moon-viewing
harvest moon
northland weather
uncertain skies
taken in my
hand
it will vanish in hot tears
autumn frost
full autumn
moon
to my gate comes rising
crested tide
thin from the
Kiso trip
and still not yet recovered
the late harvest moon
bright red
the pitiless sun
autumn winds
autumn wind
broken with sadness
his mulberry stick
autumn winds
in the sliding door's opening
a sharp voice
autumn wind:
as thickets in fields are
Fuwa's barriers
Fuwa's barrier = one of the three barriers or checking stations. It went out of use in 789 AD.
people no longer
live
at the Fuwa Barrier
in a house with wooden eaves
weathered bones
just thinking of the wind
it pierces my body
shaking the
grave
my weeping voice
autumn wind
for one touched
by monkey cries
how is it when a child's abandoned
in autumn winds
speaking out
my lips are cold
in autumn wind
autumn wind
in Ise's shrine cemetery
even more lonely
the moon still
is
though it seems far from home
Suma in summer
walking on and
on
even through I fall down sick
in fields of clover
from this very
day
erase the inscription with dew
on the bamboo hat
where's the
moon?
as the temple bell is --
sunk in the sea
autumn colors
without a pot
of red-brown soup
turn this way!
I too feel lonely
late in autumn
I go
and you remain
two autumns
in the world
outside
is it harvesting time?
the grass of my hut
borrowing sleep
from the scarecrow's sleeves
midnight frost
along this road
going with no one
autumn evening
autumn deepens
the man next door
how is he doing?
saying farewell
to people
farewell being said to me brings
autumn in Kiso
"I'm tired
of kids."
for the person who says this
there are no flowers
I didn't die!
the end of a journey
is autumn nightfall
autumn nears
my heart is drawn
to a four-mat room
autumn night
striking and making it crumble
our small talk
blowing stones
flying from the volcano Asama
autumn gale
Stone Mountain
whiter than the stones
autumn wind
rainy day
the world's autumn closes
Boundary Town
bagworm's place
it seems to be inside
the cherry blossoms
bagworms
to hear their songs
come to my hut
without turning
into a butterfly, autumn deepens
for the worm
soon to die
yet no sign of it
in the cidada's chirp
stillness
piercing the rocks
cicada's shrill
temple bell
also sounds like it is
cicada's voice
cricket
forgetting sounds with its cry
by the fireplace
the cruelty
of being under a helmet
a cricket
in the cow shed
mosquito's voice darkens
lingering heat
on a bare branch
a crow has settled
autumn dusk
very exciting
yet after awhile so sad
cormorant fishing
a sick wild
duck
falling down with the dark cold
to sleep overnight
a clear moon
because of his fear of foxes
I go with my lover boy
cloud-parting
friend!
temporarily this wild goose
must go away
though a skylark
sings
beating inside
the pheasant's sad cry
higher than
a skylark
resting in the sky
on a mountain pass
spiders have
a cry?
well, what is chirping
autumn's wind?
secretly at
night
a worm under the moon
bores into a chestnut
banana plant
in autumn storm
rain drips into tub
hearing the night
departing autumn
with hands spread open
chestnut burs
Kiso's chestnuts
for a person of the floating world
a souvenir
though autumn
winds blow
it is still green
bur of the chestnut
chrysanthemum's
scent
in the garden a worn-out sandal
just the sole
at Nara
the fragrance of chrysanthemums
ancient Buddhas
drinking morning
tea
the monk is peaceful
the chrysanthemum blooms
while growing
thin
without a reason
the chrysanthemum bud
white chrysanthemum
catching in one's eye
nary a speck of dust
chrysanthemums
flowers blooming in the stones
of the stonecutter
your hermitage
the moon and chrysanthemums
plus an acre of rice fields
flower of the
harvest moon?
it only looks that way
a cotton field
autumn coolness
hand and hand paring away
eggplants -- cucumbers
a strange flower
for birds and butterflies
the autumn sky
don't imitate
me
we are not two halves
of a muskmelon
ear of the pine
tree
mushroom on a strange tree
with a leaf stuck to it
also green
it should remain a thing
the pepper pod
the village
so old
there's not a single house
without a persimmon tree
autumn begins
sea and sprouting rice fields
one green
failing health
chewing dried seaweed
my teeth grate on sand
grabbing at
straws
the strength to bear
our parting
on this mountain
tell me of its sorrow
wild-yam digger
butt of the
tree
see in the cut end
today's moon
after the flowers
all there is left for my haiku
wisteria beans
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