俳人
Haijin
Bashō, Issa, Buson, Shiki.
- 160 古池や蛙飛び込む水の音 Old pond — a frog leaps in, sound of water.
- 161 閑さや岩にしみ入る蝉の声 Such stillness — the cicadas' cry sinks into the rocks.
- 162 五月雨をあつめて早し最上川 Gathering the rains of June, how swiftly flows the Mogami.
- 107 物言えば唇寒し秋の風 As soon as words are spoken, the lips feel cold — autumn wind.
- 163 やせ蛙負けるな一茶これにあり Skinny frog, do not give up — Issa is here.
- 164 雀の子そこのけそこのけお馬が通る Little sparrows, make way, make way! The horse is passing.
- 166 名月を取ってくれろと泣く子かな "Catch me the moon!" cries the child.
- 165 朝顔に釣瓶とられてもらい水 A morning glory has claimed my well bucket — I beg water next door.
- 167 春の海ひねもすのたりのたりかな The spring sea — all day long it swells and gently swells.
- 168 菜の花や月は東に日は西に Field of rapeseed — the moon in the east, the sun in the west.
- 209 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 Summer grasses — all that remains of warriors' dreams.
- 211 名月や池をめぐりて夜もすがら Harvest moon — all night long I paced around the pond.
- 213 荒海や佐渡によこたふ天河 Wild sea — stretched over Sado Island, the River of Heaven.
- 216 枯朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮 On a bare branch a crow has settled — autumn evening.
- 219 この道や行く人なしに秋の暮 This road — no one else walks it. Autumn evening.
- 220 雪とけて村いっぱいの子どもかな Snow has melted — the village is full of children.
- 223 やれ打つな蠅が手をすり足をする Don't swat it! The fly wrings its hands, wrings its feet.
- 230 いくたびも雪の深さを尋ねけり Again and again I ask: the snow, how deep is it now?
- 234 分け入っても分け入っても青い山 However deep I go, and deeper still — blue mountains.