Kazuko M.さんのイラストまとめ

owl: "Have you ever had the January blues, sparrow?"
sparrow: "Never."

"today even the
hordes of hell celebrate
the new year" Issa Kobayashi
(images: Kyosai Kawanabe)

"New Year's Day ―
everything is in bloom!
I feel about average." Issa
(Mitsumasa Anno/ Hokusai/ Kotondo Torii)

"plum blossom scent --
when I open my paper door
a bright moon" Issa Kobayashi
(images: left: Harunobu Suzuki/ Hokusai)

"waiting for spring
sparrows also make a home
in the bamboo" Issa
(sparrows on bamboo tree, Koson Ohara)

"The crane's legs
have gotten shorter
in the spring rain" Basho
(image: Gyoshu Hayami)

"A carp leaps up
crinkling
the autumn moonlight" Shiki
(left: Koson Ohara/ right: Hiroshige)

"Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?" Edgar Allan Poe
(image: Annabel Lee, Edmund Dulac)

"Her loose hair entwined
Around a young branch
By the east wind...
And in the west a rainbow
So small, yet radiant!" Akiko Yosano
(Shinsui)

"Is an empire
the light that goes out
or a firefly?" Jorge Luis Borges
(image: Seiichi Hayashi)