Matsuo Basho

beside my pillow pees

in cool waves

One-sided love

above the dead grass.Translated by Robert Hass

In this world of ours,We eat only to cast out,Sleep only to wake,And what comes after all thatIs simply to die at last.

on the half-finished bridge.Translated by Robert Hass

into the chestnut.Translated by Robert Hass

All the day long-yet not long enough for the skylark,singing, singing.

the River of Heaven

autumn wind