227Haiku 俳句
朝顔や一輪深き淵の色
あさがおやいちりんふかきふちのいろAsagao ya ichirin fukaki fuchi no iro
“A morning glory — one single bloom, the blue of a deep abyss.”
The meaning
In a single corolla, the depth of an abyss. Truly looking at a small thing sometimes means finding a whole vertigo in it.
At the origin
A haiku by Buson, painter as much as poet, master of color.
The characters
- 朝顔 asagaomorning glory
- や yacutting word
- 一輪 ichirinone single bloom
- 深き
- 淵
- の
- 色
やParticle“And” of an open list: among others. In a haiku it is the cut — a silence that parts the verse.
In practice
Choose one tiny object and look until you find depth in it.
Themes
Similar proverbs
- 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.
- 126 一葉落ちて天下の秋を知る One leaf falls, and we know autumn is coming to the world.
- 181 秋深き隣は何をする人ぞ Deep autumn — my neighbor, how does he live?
- 003 千里の道も一歩から A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.
- 018 百聞は一見に如かず Hearing a hundred times is not worth seeing once.