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A review by annemariewellswriter
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa by Yosa Buson, Robert Hass, Matsuo Bashō, Kobayashi Issa
4.0
I loved that this book also included biographies and journal entries written by the haikaishi. Some of my favorites:
Don’t live long
But you’d never know it —
The cicada’s cry.
You could turn this way,
I’m also lonely
This autumn evening.
Don’t imitate me;
It’s as boring as
The two halves of the melon.
Climb Mount Fuji
O snail,
But slowly, slowly.
Children imitating cormorants
Are even more wonderful
Than cormorants.
Don’t live long
But you’d never know it —
The cicada’s cry.
You could turn this way,
I’m also lonely
This autumn evening.
Don’t imitate me;
It’s as boring as
The two halves of the melon.
Climb Mount Fuji
O snail,
But slowly, slowly.
Children imitating cormorants
Are even more wonderful
Than cormorants.