Ten Haiku by Various Authors

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Ten Haiku KONISHI RAIZAN

MATSUO BASHŌ

Girls planting paddy: only their song free of mud.

The beginning of all art— in the deep north, a rice-planting song.

A whole field of rice seedlings planted—I part from the willow.

In Kyoto, hearing the cuckoo, I long for Kyoto.

A cicada shell— it sang itself utterly away.

YOSA BUSON

Piercing chill— stepping on my dead wife’s comb in the bedroom

My arm for my pillow, I really like myself under the hazy moon.

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Dawn— fish the cormorants haven’t caught swimming in the shallows.

Coolness— the sound of the bell as it leaves the bell.

Washing the hoe— ripples on the water; far off, wild ducks.

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