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(image: Sekka Kamisaka)
"becoming a cow
would be fine - morning naps
and the evening cool" Shiko
(image: Sekka Kamisaka)
"I keep on walking
and the red spider lily
keeps on blooming" Santoka
[red spider lily = higanbana]
(image: right: Sekka Kamisaka)
"A drop of dew
Sits on a rock
Like a diamond." Bosha Kawabata
(images: Shunso Hishida / Taikan Yokoyama)
"the ants' road
from peaks of clouds
to here" Issa Kobayashi
(images: Zeshin Shibata / Taikan Yokoyama)
"Even heartless
a body would know
how touching ―
a marsh where snipe fly up
on an autumn evening." Saigyo
(images: Harunobu Suzuki / Koson Ohara)
"winter drizzle ―
at the temple I borrow an old umbrella
looking almost like a ghost"
― Buson Yosa (tr. Gabi Greve)
(images: Hasui Kawase / Enshin)
"Although
the cricket's song
has no words,
still,
it sounds like sorrow." Izumi Shikibu
(images: Koson Ohara/ Seiichi Hayashi)
"how lonely it is
to wait for someone -
green grapes"
― Sho Hayashi (tr. Gabi Greve)
(images: Seiichi Hayashi / Zeshin Shibata)
"sipping morning tea,
the monk is peaceful:
chrysanthemum blossoms"
― Basho Matsuo (tr. David Landis Barnhill)
(images: left: Harunobu Suzuki/ Hokusai)