a moment.
Translated by Robert Hass
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Dawn–
swimming in the shallows.Translated by Robert Hass
Sparrow singing–
open.Translated by Robert Hass
light of the moon
creep eastward
Spring
with smug self confidencea haikai poet.Longer has become the daytime;a pheasant is flutteringdown onto the bridge.Yearning for the BygonesLengthening days,accumulating, and recallingthe days of distant past.Slowly passing days,with an echo heard here in acorner of Kyoto.The white elbowof a priest, dozing,in the dusk of spring.Into a nobleman,a fox has changed himselfearly evening of spring.The light…
ِA mosquite buzzes
a mosquite buzzesevery time flowersof honeysuckle fall
The spring sea rising
and falling all day.Translated by Robert Hass