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Japanese Calligraphy by Japanese Calligrapher Soseki Aoyagi        

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Haiku of Kobayashi Issa   (1763-1828)


  Coming to play
  with me...
  orphan sparrow.   
  
  No.1
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    Coming to play
  with me...
  orphan sparrow.   
  
  No.2
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   Coming to play
  with me...
  orphan sparrow.   
  
  No.3    
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  The back gate
  pens on its own...
    a long day.
  
  
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   Aa big firefly
   lightly, nimbly
    passes by.


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   Tohji Temple--
    just its pagoda shows
     over summer trees.
  

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  Oh peach
   come float to me! 
    spring mist.


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   If someone comes
    change into a frog
  water-melon 
   in a tub of cold water.

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   Lightning flash--  
    his absentminded  
     expression.
 

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   Ashamed  napping, 
     hearing  
    the rice-planting song
    

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   First firefly-- 
   uncaught by the hand 
     flies free.


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   Mountain cuckoo--  
 the cherry blossoms of Shinano
      have bloomed!
    

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 Stillness--  
 in the depths of the lake 
    billowing clouds.


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   Hot bath steam--  
    it's become a moonlit  
      night of spring.


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  Deutzia blossoms--  
  in the water's gleam  
   a croaking frog.


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  A cicada chirrs--
   my shadow's umbrella-hat
   makes a halo!
  
  
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   Village children  
   and crows mingle…  
   Buddha amid birthday flowers.


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   In my home village 
   she guards our house…  
   moon gazing alone.
  

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  Hungry I am
  big thunder 
  in a summer field.
  No.1

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    Hungry I am
  big thunder 
  in a summer field.
  No.2

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    Hungry I am
  big thunder 
  in a summer field.
  No.3
 
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   Together with the moon, 
  the price of a cool wind 
  is five mon.
    No.1

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   Together with the moon, 
  the price of a cool wind 
  is five mon.
    No.2

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   Together with the moon, 
  the price of a cool wind 
  is five mon.
    No.3

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