216Haiku 俳句
枯朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮
かれえだにからすのとまりけりあきのくれKareeda ni karasu no tomarikeri aki no kure
“On a bare branch a crow has settled — autumn evening.”
The meaning
Three strokes of ink: a branch, a bird, the evening. Nothing else — and everything is there. Bareness can hold more than abundance.
At the origin
One of the founding haiku of Bashō's style (1680).
The characters
- 枯朶 kareedabare branch
- に nion
- 烏 karasucrow
- の
- とまりけり
- 秋
- の
- 暮
にParticleThe point of arrival: a place, a moment, a destination.
In practice
Describe your day in only three strokes: what essential remains?
Themes
Similar proverbs
- 106 秋の日は釣瓶落とし The autumn sun drops like a well bucket.
- 219 この道や行く人なしに秋の暮 This road — no one else walks it. Autumn evening.
- 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?
- 101 月に叢雲、花に風 Over the moon, gathering clouds; over blossoms, wind.
Related expressions
- 210 旅に病んで夢は枯野をかけ廻る Sick on a journey — my dreams go wandering still over withered fields.
- 107 物言えば唇寒し秋の風 As soon as words are spoken, the lips feel cold — autumn wind.
- 293 秋の田のかりほの庵の苫をあらみ我が衣手は露にぬれつつ In the harvest-watch hut by the autumn fields, its rush roof loose, my sleeves grow wet with dew.
- 250 朝三暮四 Three in the morning, four at night.