Deep autumn
my neighbor,
how does he live, I wonder?
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Along this road
Goes no one,
This autumn eve.
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How glorious!
green leaves,
young leaves
the sun sparkling.
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Even the woodpeckers
never tear this grass hut..
the summer trees.
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The summer rains
gathering into swift flows--
Mogami River.
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The beginning of poetry
is a rice-planting song
in northern Japan
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One who breakfasts
with morning glories:
that's what I am.
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Even a wild boar
With all other things
Blew in this storm.
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The moon's your guide
please come this way
to a traveler's inn.
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Cloud peaks
how many have crumbled away
Moon Moutan.
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Autumn wind-
just thickets and fields
at Fuwa Barrier.
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Misty rain
a day with Mt.Fuji unseesn
so enchanting.
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A woman washing potatoes
If Saigyo were here,
he would write a waka.
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Rizing again
the chrysanthemums faint
after the rains.
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In the summer rains
one thing unhidden-
the bridge of Seta.
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The Yoshino cherries
I will show you:
cypress hat.
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Petal after petal
moutain roses flutter down:
the sound of the rapids.
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Yamanaka-
Little Pine,
where the wind wafts
over bush clover and
miscanthus .
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The moon so pure
on the sand carried have
by the Pilgrim Priests.
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A lonely name-
Little Pine,
where the wind wafts
over bush clover
and miscanthus.
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A bush warbler
drops its hat:
camellia blossom.
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Tthe sun's path-
hollyhocks turn with it
in summer rains.
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Mii Temple,
I'd love to knock
on its gate:
tonight's moon .
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Bamboo shoots-
and my childhood
sketches of them.
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Summer rains-
poem cards peeled off,
their traces on the wall.
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Sunk in sorrow,
make me feel loneliness:
moutain cuckoo.
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In my two hands,,
peach and cherry blossoms-
and mugwort rice-cake .
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The silence!
The voice of the cicada
Penetrates the rocks.
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Kisagata-
in the rain, Xi Shi asleep,
silk tree blossoms.
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Red, red is the sun
relentless, still
the autumn wind.
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Still alive
all frozen into one:
sea slugs.
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Morning glories-
locked during daytime,
my fence gate.
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Without dropping
its bright white dew,
abush clover sways .
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An orchid scent
Just incense perfuming
A butterfly's wings.
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Dozing on my horse,
With dream lingering
and moon distant:
Smoke from a tea fire
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Well then,
Let's go snow-viewing
Till we all fall down.
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Listening
in the tranquility bagworms:
come hear their cry:
a thatched hut.
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A little crab
creeping up my leg:
clear water.
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Saigyou's sandals:
hang them as well
with the pine's dew.
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Autumn evening ;
A crow perched
On a withered branch.
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(Feelings in my thatched hut)
banana in a wind storm
a night of listening to rain
dripping in the tub.
new
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blowing away
the rocks: Asama's
autumn windstorm
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Translators: David Landis Barnhill, Haider A. Kahn & Tadashi Kondo, David Landis Barnhill,
and http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/ebasho.shtml.
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