New Year’s decoration (Masaoka Shiki Poems)
New Year's decoration -the table with my inkstonebecomes narrow(1898)(Masaoka Shiki)
New Year's decoration -the table with my inkstonebecomes narrow(1898)(Masaoka Shiki)
Devotion to the Great Saint,the temple of Ishite…rice plants abloom.(Masaoka Shiki)
a cock crowsat the foot of the small Mt. Fujipeach blossoms(Masaoka Shiki)
The summer river:although there is a bridge, my horsegoes through the water.(Masaoka Shiki)
moon at twilight,a cluster of petals fallingfrom the cherry tree(Masaoka Shiki)
The snake gourd blossoms.My throat blocked with phlegm,I am already a Buddha.(Masaoka Shiki)
On how to singthe frog school and the skylark schoolare arguing.(Masaoka Shiki)
The wild geese take flightLow along the railroad tracksIn the moonlight night(Masaoka Shiki)
the sky draws nearsuch a bright sunriseNew Year's Day(Masaoka Shiki)
coolness-a mountain stream splashes outbetween houses(Masaoka Shiki)
looking throughthree thousand haiku eatingtwo persimmons(Masaoka Shiki)
After killinga spider, how lonely I feelin the cold of night!(Masaoka Shiki)
A willow;and two or three cowswaiting for the boat.(Masaoka Shiki)
For love and for hateI swat a fly and offer itto an ant.(Masaoka Shiki)
through a growth of weedsruns an open pathbaseball diamond(Masaoka Shiki)
My heartwithering in winteronly the hokku…(1896)(Masaoka Shiki)
(Alas my) fortune;drawing divine lots,the autumn wind.(Masaoka Shiki)
lifting my head,I look now and then-the garden clover(Masaoka Shiki)
spring rain:browsing under an umbrellaat the picture-book store (Masaoka Shiki)
the setting sunremains on the mountaincastle flowering rice(Masaoka Shiki)
Oh, autumnin the boundless world!its traces(1893)(Masaoka Shiki)
Moon and plum blossoms:night after nightthey come closer(Masaoka Shiki)
hydrangeas —-rain splashing uponthe crumbling walls(Masaoka Shiki)
all I can think ofis being sick in bedand snowbound…(Masaoka Shiki)
peeling a pearsweet drops drippingalong the knife edge(Masaoka Shiki)
On the sandy beach,footprints:long is the spring day.(Masaoka Shiki)
sounds of a temple bellreverberate in a circlea long night(Masaoka Shiki)
rice reaping-no smoke rising fromthe cremation ground today(Masaoka Shiki)
they didn't gathergourd waterday before yesterday either (Masaoka Shiki)
open the shutter!I'll just have a lookat Ueno's snow!(Masaoka Shiki)
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