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"just as wonderful as
the expensive garden stone...
azaleas" Issa Kobayashi
(images: Azalea garden and Mt. Fuji by Hasui Kawase)
"Dead my old fine hopes
And dry my dreaming but still
Iris, blue each spring" Shushiki
(images: left: Heihachiro Fukuda / Hokusai / Gogh)
Sitting quietly, doing nothing,
Spring comes, and
the grass grows, by itself." Basho Matsuo
(images: Yumeji Takehisa)
"the tiny bush warbler
stutters and
starts again" Chiyo-ni
(images: Settai Komura/ Koson Ohara)
"Over the magnolia,
Dreamy
Drizzle falling." Soseki Natsume
(images: Kiyokata Kaburagi / Gyoshu Hayami)
"wordlessly playing
a single bird
in the blossoms" Santoka
(image: Koson Ohara)
"The faces of the dolls!
Though I never intended to,
I have grown old."
― Seifu (tr. Blyth)
(images: Hoitsu Sakai / Keishu Takeuchi)
#hinamatsuri #dollsdayinjapan
"Even after waking
From the dream
I'll see the colors of irises"
― Shushiki Ogawa (1669-1725)
(iris garden, Hasui Kawase / Hokusai)
"Deep in the mountains,
too deep to know of spring,
sparkling beads of melted snow
fall slowly, drop by drop,
on my pine bough door" Princess Shikishi
(image: Koukei Kojima)
"the warbler
becoming a warbler ―
the sound of water" Chiyo-ni
(Settai Komura/ bush warbler in winter, Koson Ohara)