12660 haiku out of 12660
year unknown
on New Year's Day
a cute little pilgrim
at the gate
year unknown
New Year's Day
this world of Japan's
blossoms
year unknown
basking
in the New Year's sun...
my trashy hut
year unknown
on New Year's Day
lucky! lucky!
a pale blue sky
year unknown
around noon
New Year's Day begins...
little hut
year unknown
no run-of-the-mill
New Year's Day
for the slob
year unknown
First Month, second day--
my wrinkled
hands
year unknown
First Month--
recording the cash spent
on sake
year unknown
on the cat's grave
in First Month...
dried sardines
year unknown
to one side
of my paper lantern...
spring's first dawn
year unknown
at my hut
what will come of it?
spring's first dawn
year unknown
spring's first dawn--
the priest pretends
to sweep
year unknown
amazing--
in the house I was born
spring's first morning
year unknown
amazing--
in the house I was born
spring begins today
year unknown
even for this body of dust
a god to uplift me!
blossoming spring
year unknown
now begins
the Future Buddha's reign...
spring pines
year unknown
spring at my hut--
tall as a sleeping man
the mist
year unknown
spring begins
as it has deigned to do
for a thousand ages
year unknown
my province--
even the smoke
an ancient thing
year unknown
spring begins--
sparrows at my gate
with healthy faces
year unknown
from where the gods live
Miwa's
sunrise
year unknown
from a neighbor's storehouse
shining slantwise...
year's first sun
year unknown
rising into
the year's first sky...
tea smoke
year unknown
if it's not raining
it's the year's first sky!
tomorrow too, travel
year unknown
forming the year's
first sky...
tea smoke
year unknown
welcoming in loads
of New Year's rain...
trashy house
year unknown
big field--
my New Year's walk
follows holes made by canes
year unknown
O New Year's god
this year too
send help!
year unknown
plum blossoms fall
in the hairdo...
lowering the basket
year unknown
sickle moon--
hauling up the basket
through branches
year unknown
day of fasting--
high revelry from here
to Ueno
year unknown
servant on holiday--
the mountain festival
ended yesterday
year unknown
on the homecoming servant's
face too...
peach blossoms
year unknown
Servants' Holiday--
two in a row
on Meditation Bridge
year unknown
yanking up a little pine
he watches
the watchers
year unknown
in formal trousers
curled asleep on the lawn...
first day of Rat
year unknown
pruned by the antelope's
jaws...
New Year's pine
year unknown
for a wrinkled face--
children's New Year's
decorations
year unknown
here and there
hanging in the thicket...
New Year's ropes
year unknown
going outside
plum blossoms dive in...
my lucky tea
year unknown
my shadow too
in good health...
"Happy New Year!"
year unknown
the patient child
doesn't laugh...
New Year's greeting
year unknown
my ramshackle hut
just as it is...
"Happy New Year!"
year unknown
how many times
a New Year's gift?
the fan returns
year unknown
my humble hut--
all morning they come
for New Year's gifts
year unknown
put this one
over there!
New Year's gifts
year unknown
New Year's gift of tea--
where did you go
on your journey back to me?
year unknown
the naughty child
attempts first...
year's first writing
year unknown
treasured child--
his cane dragging
the year's first writing
year unknown
old wall--
written with a nail
the new almanac
year unknown
world of man--
even in mountain shade
New Year's water
year unknown
hot bath--
against my journey's lice
first sin
year unknown
into the year's first
water softly...
plum blossoms
year unknown
making a face
at the whining cat...
bouncing her ball
year unknown
lending it
for the kitten's playtime...
New Year's handball
year unknown
the big kite
perfectly motionless...
Sumida River
year unknown
a broken kite dancing
round and round...
Ocha-no-Mizu
year unknown
grassy shoreline--
a rising then crashing
kite
year unknown
hugging his kite
soon he's sound asleep...
the child
year unknown
lion puppet at the gate--
from his mouth
plum blossoms
year unknown
spring pony--
even when human-made
so lively!
year unknown
teeth to harden
this New Year's meal...
not even one
year unknown
New Year's tooth-hardening
meal...the cat wins
and laughs
year unknown
lucky straw bag--
a good thing
for a cat's playtime
year unknown
it's good
for the cat's playtime...
lucky straw bag
year unknown
herb picking--
at the rafter's metal tip
the rising sun
year unknown
spring peace--
a mountain monk peeks
through a fence
year unknown
the grass and wheat
trembling...
sunlight stretches on
year unknown
water spider
on spring's last day...
laughing face
year unknown
frost-white flowers--
and thus
spring ends
year unknown
spring departs--
the work horse is led
into a brook
year unknown
spring departs--
the old clothes buyer
ignores me
year unknown
the horned owl
regrets it deeply...
spring departs
year unknown
light snow--
a dog digs a hole
by the road
year unknown
the little crow
slips so cleverly...
spring rain
year unknown
spring rain--
an evening climb
up Mount Matchi
year unknown
taking it easy
the mouse sleeps too...
spring rain
year unknown
half of it
is flitting snowflakes...
spring rain
year unknown
the priest is mending
a rip...
spring rain
year unknown
spring rain--
growing side by side
whispering pines
year unknown
spring rain--
at night, too, making love
on Mount Matchi
year unknown
night sermon
backsliding gamblers...
spring rain
year unknown
sticky rice cake
for the crossroads Buddha...
spring breeze
year unknown
spring breeze--
the female servant's
little sword
year unknown
faces of devils
faces of foxes...
spring breeze
year unknown
inside my umbrella-hat
a charm from Ise Shrine...
spring breeze
year unknown
the spring breeze pushes
somebody
down the slope
year unknown
blown upon
by a spring breeze...
healing bath
year unknown
spring breeze--
into the round reed hut's
only door
year unknown
spring breeze--
the priest gives his sermon
walking along
year unknown
out of the dyer's-weed
it blows...
spring breeze
year unknown
hazy moon in the pine--
passing through
passing through
year unknown
a lucky fox
is barking!
hazy moon
year unknown
rap-a-tap
who's that coming
in the mist?
year unknown
today too
living in mist...
little house
year unknown
in the misty day
not growing older...
grave tablets
year unknown
in spring mist
from morning on a ruckus...
foolish crow
year unknown
misty day--
behind the big inn
a pine
year unknown
farewell! farewell!
hands waving
in spring mist
year unknown
well hidden
by the spring mist...
grave tablet
year unknown
the lake is slowly
lost in mist...
evening falls
year unknown
heat shimmers--
missing a child
the parent's face
year unknown
heat shimmers--
a field mouse chased
by the dog
year unknown
heat shimmers--
to the top of the weed
a wet mouse
year unknown
float away
my snow too...
Chikuma River
year unknown
before the gate--
my cane makes a river
of melting snow
year unknown
melting the big snow
with a ladle...
a child
year unknown
mother dog
testing the depth...
snow-melt river
year unknown
garden at the gate--
melting snow forming
the word "rice"
year unknown
garden at the gate--
with my cane digging
a snow-melt river
year unknown
my gate's adornment--
the rice seedlings
turning green
year unknown
in honor of the equinox
the hedge
turns green
year unknown
heading for my sleeve
to play...
spring equinox louse
year unknown
a migrating servant
laid off...
his sixty year-old face
year unknown
some stay behind
in the green leaves...
low tide crows
year unknown
the crane and the tortoise's
playground...
burnt field
year unknown
windblown clouds--
the fires of burning fields
bring sunset
year unknown
when this pine sapling
grows to flower...
who'll be here?
year unknown
the lover cat
his face so innocent
comes home
year unknown
the lover cat
licking his chops
comes home
year unknown
on his whisker tips
rice grains tremble...
the lover cat
year unknown
cherry blossoms scatter--
snap! the buck's antlers
come off
year unknown
baby sparrow--
even when people come
opening his mouth
year unknown
the bird's nest, too
in the unlucky direction...
Mount Hie
year unknown
a baby sparrow
chirps inside it...
rice gourd
year unknown
the bush warbler
not at all concerned...
tea smoke
year unknown
the bush warbler
not at all concerned...
gambling at the crossroads
year unknown
the bush warbler's
"I'm perfect" face...
Higashi Mountains
year unknown
bush warbler--
even while pooping, sings
Lotus Sutra
year unknown
even among bush warblers
royalty
on the fence
year unknown
the dragnet of bush warblers
closes in...
police station
year unknown
many generations
had your face, bush warbler...
deep Shinano
year unknown
the bush warbler
is bouncing about...
well bucket
year unknown
the bush warbler
splashes too...
purification font
year unknown
bush warbler--
from one corner to another
his searching eyes
year unknown
evening lark--
which pine island's
good for sleeping?
year unknown
even the field's
radishes blooming...
the lark singing!
year unknown
ripples on water--
mingling with the larks
a fishing boat
year unknown
"I won't fall
in the lake!"
the lark sings
year unknown
from the rice cake tub
from the pine...
skylarks
year unknown
from the grave
and from the flowerpot...
skylarks!
year unknown
looking at me
the pheasant on tiptoe
on tiptoe
year unknown
a pheasant cries
in the burned field, look!
an ancient pine
year unknown
peeking into
the grassy meadow...
a pheasant cries
year unknown
the bright moon in raindrops
from the eaves...
the geese depart
year unknown
a goose without companions
flying fast as he can
returns
year unknown
up to today
such perserverance and strength!
returning geese
year unknown
up to today
such great perserverance...
wild geese! wild geese!
year unknown
geese honking--
now they leave behind
Japan
year unknown
after seeing rice planted
in Mutsu province...
the geese depart
year unknown
thinking of taking off?
goose on tiptoe
on tiptoe
year unknown
old pond--
"let me go first!"
jumping frog
year unknown
now they're quarreling
the croaking
frogs
year unknown
pale green
sitting down with a thump...
croaking frog
year unknown
the big hackberry tree
as his shield...
croaking frog
year unknown
in holy Jizo's lap
squatting, croaking
frog
year unknown
taming the flesh
he enters a shrine...
frog
year unknown
in the open window
a bright moon
croaking frogs
year unknown
the uproar in the servants' room
beats the frogs...
drinking party
year unknown
sitting on the head
of a sleeping cow...
a frog
year unknown
on the flower pot
does the butterfly, too
hear Buddha's promise?
year unknown
drinking tea alone--
every day the butterfly
stops by
year unknown
a butterfly flits--
even Shinran's pine
remembers it
year unknown
sharing tree shade
with a butterfly...
friends in a previous life
year unknown
baby in a basket--
a little butterfly
licking her lips
year unknown
creeping through
the rice farmer's legs...
little butterfly
year unknown
garden butterfly--
the child crawls, it flies
crawls, it flies...
year unknown
butterfly at the gate--
the child crawls, it flies
crawls, it flies...
year unknown
first butterfly--
without formal greeting
entering the alcove
year unknown
as evening falls
so deeply disappointed...
meadow butterfly
year unknown
in this world
from dawn to dusk
even a butterfly must toil
year unknown
the whole house
pays them court...
silkworms
year unknown
quickly people
pay them court...
silkworms
year unknown
don't be mean
to that horsefly
skylight!
year unknown
evening moon--
pond snails singing
in the kettle
year unknown
O clams
meet the geese and gulls
of Greater Kamakura!
year unknown
bush clover sprouting--
when people aren't looking
the deer eats
year unknown
pricking people--
new grasses of the plain
are precocious!
year unknown
wiping their feet
on the baby grass...
doorway
year unknown
baby grass--
the stylish woman leaves
her butt print
year unknown
in my province
grass blooms too...
cherry blossoms
year unknown
in flowering mustard
step by step sinking...
sun
year unknown
a visitor views
the field of mustard blossoms...
villa shed
year unknown
flowering mustard--
and looking west
Zenkô Temple
year unknown
drunk on sake
he yanks
the radish
year unknown
twisting, turning
the cat scratches his face...
budding tree
year unknown
the tree buds, too
open up...
Amida's Hongan Temple
year unknown
North Beach's
sand-barrier camellias
in bloom
year unknown
the setting place
for the spring sun...
wisteria blossoms
year unknown
blooming plum--
the voices of children
sound reverent
year unknown
plum blossoms--
riding a dog
the Golden Boy
year unknown
red plum blossoms--
on the porch
the bathed cat dries
year unknown
the family's good fortune
in bloom...
plum tree at the gate
year unknown
the black painted
horse is glittering too!
plum blossoms
year unknown
the cloth monkey
in high spirits...
plum blossoms
year unknown
plum blossom scent--
at the fox's hole
red beans and rice
year unknown
plum tree--
on my hut's unlucky side
blooming!
year unknown
plum in full bloom--
a house without sake
can't be found
year unknown
even the heavenly gods
crowd 'round...
plum blossoms
year unknown
in my gate
thrust out, swaying
plum branch
year unknown
the first and best
of Shitaya Ward...
plum blossoms
year unknown
abandoned fan--
I return it
to the plum blossom thief
year unknown
not giving a damn
that plum blossoms fall...
his stern face
year unknown
the bird is singing
but it ain't blooming...
plum tree
year unknown
in the thicket
the plum blossoms scatter
languidly
year unknown
good timing!
at all 53 post towns
umbrella-hatted blossom viewers
year unknown
two voices that sound alike
make their way...
clouds of blossoms
year unknown
honestly--
even more than blossoms
I love dumplings!
year unknown
cherry blossoms--
under every tree
a Buddha on display
year unknown
world of blossoms--
even the stone Buddhas
parents and children
year unknown
world of blossoms--
even the holy Jizos
parents and children
year unknown
cherry blossoms--
around grandpa's waist
a name tag
year unknown
sky-blue parasols
one by one...
blossoms at their peak
year unknown
onto the paper amulet
cherry blossoms
scatter
year unknown
fussing, fussing
in the blossom shade...
gamblers
year unknown
when cherry blossoms
scatter...
no regrets
year unknown
curled to sleep--
the important official
in cherry blossom shade
year unknown
my dirty blossom-viewing
robe...
I look like Kyorai!
year unknown
my blossom-viewing umbrella-hat...
but all day
straw sandals in such a state!
year unknown
a vegetable hodgepodge
on butterbur leaves...
cherry blossom shade
year unknown
rap-a-tap
who's that coming
to view the blossoms?
year unknown
carrying his mother
and leading his child by the hand...
cherry blossoms!
year unknown
"No soldiers
allowed!"
say the cherry blossoms
year unknown
cherry trees in bloom--
yet some folks
are tired of them
year unknown
the home village
I abandoned...
cherry trees in bloom
year unknown
grandma's rice cakes
and papa's cherry tree
in bloom!
year unknown
cherry blossoms
I waited and waited for...
countryside
year unknown
O cherry blossoms
fall! fall!
enough to fill my belly
year unknown
a thousand gallons
shower from the eaves...
cherry blossoms
year unknown
even an old man
has New Year's eyes...
cherry blossoms
year unknown
gate's cherry tree
all this flit-flit flitting
is work!
year unknown
a hearty meal
in Great Japan...
cherry blossoms
year unknown
without you--
the cherry blossoms
just blossoms
year unknown
cherry trees in bloom--
warmed by a brazier
blossom-gazing
year unknown
trickling from
a village child's sleeve...
cherry blossoms
year unknown
the master being dead
just ordinary...
cherry blossoms
year unknown
cherry blossoms fall--
come out and play
devil in me!
year unknown
cherry blossoms scatter--
even the devil in me
has lost his horns
year unknown
in falling cherry blossoms
growling to Amida Buddha...
temple dog
year unknown
the neighbor expresses
his condolences...
late-blooming cherry tree
year unknown
lying down in a row--
discussing the distant
cherry blossoms
year unknown
lording over
the vegetable patch...
a cherry tree in bloom
year unknown
a corrupt world
in its latter days...
but cherry blossoms!
year unknown
Shinano's deep wooded mountains
even in Fifth Month...
cherry blossoms
year unknown
pouring onto
the faces of sinners...
cherry blossoms
year unknown
peach blossoms--
riding a dog
the naughty boy
year unknown
keeping their cool--
the crow
the willow
year unknown
the sleeping puppy
paws
at the willow
year unknown
the willow at my gate
droops
just because
year unknown
to the old woman
doing laundry, the willow
waves goodnight
year unknown
waking from sleep--
drip-dripping willow
in the night
year unknown
cemetery font--
the willow at the gate
washes its hands
year unknown
moon to the right
water to the left...
the evening willow
year unknown
water rising--
the shrimp crawls up
the willow
year unknown
peeking out
from the willow tree...
face of a fox
year unknown
a bush warbler sounding
a bit more summery...
dewy eaves
year unknown
waking from summer sleep--
going moon-gazing
on the levee
year unknown
at high noon
for high and low...
I'm alone
year unknown
summer night--
the moon by the river
just a sliver
year unknown
in the summer night
it's a pillow...
Mount Tsukuba
year unknown
popping open
in the short summer night...
cherry blossoms
year unknown
answering prayers
for the grasses...
summer heat
year unknown
hot night in the trees--
I'm getting used to it
arm for a pillow
year unknown
today too, heat
and tomorrow, more heat?
house in the trees
year unknown
quiet and still
I eat my white rice...
the heat
year unknown
from the barnyard grass
at the gate, rising...
the heat
year unknown
under thatched eaves
cool as the cool air...
birdsong
year unknown
facing the cool breeze
straight on...
a lake
year unknown
cool air--
"Third Month has passed!'
sings the bird
year unknown
the cool breeze
through my neighbor's bamboo
just a remnant
year unknown
morning cool--
fishing for soup stock
in his back door sea
year unknown
cool air--
my love chases a mosquito
with a ladle
year unknown
people are people
I am me...
in my cool house
year unknown
cool air--
he beckons with his fan
a rain of coins
year unknown
three raindrops
a greeting card from heaven...
midsummer heat
year unknown
June rain--
in a mountain field at night
voices
year unknown
in June rain
tucked among bamboo...
farmhouse
year unknown
vines today
morning glories tomorrow...
June rain
year unknown
a small child
a bundle of hay on his back...
June rain
year unknown
at my gate
even darkness is tiny...
Fifth Month
year unknown
if that's not Hachibei's
tears coming down...
Rain of the Tiger
year unknown
rainstorm--
a beggar with his potted
pine
year unknown
showing off
with a cloudburst...
mountain's water
year unknown
the cloudburst
is pouring down again...
run for it!
year unknown
green willow--
bathed in sunlight
from billowing clouds
year unknown
billowing clouds
tomorrow too won't collapse...
sunset
year unknown
after the evening meal
they gather...
billowing clouds
year unknown
tomorrow morning
a humdrum river beach again?
summer moon
year unknown
summer moon--
this river beach crowd
gone tomorrow
year unknown
the man's whiteness
walking in the house's shadow...
summer moon
year unknown
wind on the greenery--
the weary faces
of people
year unknown
to where the grazing
horse lies...
wind on the greenery
year unknown
the summer mountain
leans
on the cove
year unknown
touching the princess lily's
heart...
pure water
year unknown
selling straw sandals
in the shade, an old man...
pure water
year unknown
green rice field--
grabbing the chopsticks
he watches
year unknown
chopsticks in hand
his steady gaze
on the green rice field
year unknown
even poorly planted
rice plants
slowly, slowly...green!
year unknown
little snail
inch by inch, climb
Mount Fuji!
year unknown
to the great river
fleas go flitting...
rite of purification
year unknown
crow and bush warbler
pass through it too...
purification hoop
year unknown
the perfect thing
for an old-time evening...
thatch of irises
year unknown
an insect singing?
look! look!
thatch of irises
year unknown
Great Japan!
even a beggar's house
has a summer banner
year unknown
weary cormorant--
no festival holiday
for you
year unknown
mopping sweat--
at his tomb I tell my story
then go
year unknown
even the little girl
poses like a saint...
new summer robe
year unknown
taking a tiny trip
to see and be seen...
new summer robes
year unknown
new summer robes--
listening to the pine breeze
they emerge
year unknown
amid scented cedars
a bush warbler's song...
new summer robes
year unknown
after morning's hot bath
trying it on...
summer kimono
year unknown
one and all
in white summer kimonos...
riverbank
year unknown
temple toddler--
how long will you wear
your little red kimono?
year unknown
evening's old
summer kimono...
my world
year unknown
at my gate--
one straw mat
my summer room
year unknown
secluded house--
if I die may the bamboo blinds
still be green
year unknown
a rain shower--
in her little mosquito net
touched by the breeze
year unknown
tomorrow night and the next
the same...
in my mosquito net, alone
year unknown
on the deer's back
the songbird takes
a siesta
year unknown
curled to sleep
just like people do...
monkey's siesta
year unknown
pine tree shade--
he beckons with his fan
a rain of golden coins
year unknown
after re-papering
the first thing I fan...
duckweed
year unknown
how pretty
over smudge pot smoke...
rising sun
year unknown
in smudge pot smoke
blooming red...
what flower is that?
year unknown
garden after garden
smudge pot smoke wafts
insects chirr
year unknown
in a beach breeze
my travels forgotten...
evening cool
year unknown
in pine tree shade
people take turns...
cool air
year unknown
everyone kick off
your straw sandals!
evening cool
year unknown
everyone keep on
your straw sandals!
evening cool
year unknown
not knowing the bell's
deep meaning...
evening cool
year unknown
evening cool--
with my feet counting
the mountains of Shinano
year unknown
turning to face
my soot-blackened house...
evening cool
year unknown
as night falls
even next to a sewer...
cool air
year unknown
rainy day--
alone and diligent
planting rice
year unknown
even asking directions
I hesitate...
rice planters
year unknown
a shameful waste--
napping, hearing
the rice-planting song
year unknown
Shinano road--
higher and higher
rice-planting songs
year unknown
you, too, bush warbler
go with an umbrella-hat!
rice-planting song
year unknown
summer ice delivered
safe and sound...
sleeping late
year unknown
not quite five feet
of sweet jelly strands...
deep tree shade
year unknown
Great Japan!
under shady trees deer
parents and children
year unknown
making the fawn
awake and alert...
plume grass
year unknown
don't teach your tricks
to the fawn!
cawing crows
year unknown
plume grass, bush clover--
the fawn
acquires wisdom
year unknown
in bush clover
staying well hidden...
a fawn
year unknown
is the night this nice
back at the hut?
cuckoo
year unknown
are you feasting
on tofu dregs too?
cuckoo
year unknown
where were you poked
to make that sound...
cuckoo?
year unknown
stepping one foot
in an Edo garden
"Cuckoo!"
year unknown
sing softly!
a samurai lives next door
cuckoo
year unknown
after dawn hits
the willow...
a cuckoo sings
year unknown
don't peck that
morning glory!
mountain cuckoo
year unknown
the priceless bush warbler
warbles
even in summer
year unknown
bush warbler--
don't catch old age!
thatched hut
year unknown
bush warbler--
don't catch old age!
house in the trees
year unknown
taking credit
for the good wind...
reed warbler
year unknown
divine wind--
a snake shows the Way
on a mountain road
year unknown
a flower big
as an umbrella-hat...
fly there firefly!
year unknown
mosquito smudge smoke--
soon the fireflies
leave too
year unknown
in fresh-sold
grass, look!
the first firefly
year unknown
reed-thatched house--
the midday fireflies
at their peak
year unknown
don't step there!
that's where an evening
firefly went
year unknown
from the tea water
flume also comes...
a firefly
year unknown
sold with a clump
of grass...
firefly cage
year unknown
come, firefly!
firefly, come!
drinking alone
year unknown
left out all night
the tofu gleams...
mosquitos
year unknown
evening falls--
the whine of mosquitos
so pretty
year unknown
after prayers
bitten also by mosquitos
of Kyoto
year unknown
midday's mosquitos
hidden behind
the Buddha of stone
year unknown
where the fly on my arm
rubbed his hands...
swat!
year unknown
swattting at a fly--
a butterfly too
rushes away
year unknown
"It's a good year!"
they buzz...
flies at the gate
year unknown
this rice field is
good! good!
buzz the flies
year unknown
into the river
fleas are tossed...
sunrise
year unknown
to Musashi Plain
fleas sent flying...
dawn
year unknown
my skinny fleas
so pitiful...
left to house-sit
year unknown
on a pleasure walk
up the mountain...
temple flea
year unknown
until the winged ants
come out
my fortunate hut
year unknown
if you're praying
pray to Amida Buddha!
summer cicadas
year unknown
at my house
late-summer bonito
and bright moon
year unknown
in blooming bindweed
airing out his loincloth...
little boy
year unknown
moonflowers--
from the bamboo
fence blooming
year unknown
carrying a poppy
he passes through
the crowd
year unknown
virtue beyond virtue
beauty beyond beauty...
just a poppy!
year unknown
it makes me measure it
with a fan...
the peony
year unknown
petals scattered
by the sweeper's butt...
peony
year unknown
scent of lotuses--
wafting in the air
above my siesta
year unknown
suddenly
the dog stops barking...
lotus blossoms!
year unknown
blooming pinks
behind and in front
of holy Jizo
year unknown
duckweed--
with a little sedge hat
rescuing a fish
year unknown
to the top
of Mount Fuji in the morning...
tossing rice plants
year unknown
Kisa Lagoon--
sparkling with fireflies
the rice planting boat
year unknown
blooming in a nook
of ripened wheat...
camellias
year unknown
newborn bamboo--
straight up the rising sun
climbing
year unknown
the thicket's bamboo
like all young folk...
agitated
year unknown
bamboo shoot shadows
cross the river...
rising sun
year unknown
the tallest
of the bamboo shoots...
sickly
year unknown
in leafy shade
a melon for a pillow...
a kitten
year unknown
my hut--
the only cooling melon
is the moon
year unknown
the gateway shelters
fresh green leaves...
a rainy day
year unknown
wisteria dangles
to its heart's content...
fresh green leaves
year unknown
making the lawn
a sit-down teahouse...
summer trees
year unknown
the preacher's
hand gestures...
the summer trees
year unknown
the big temple
looks empty...
summer trees
year unknown
no lazing by the gate
they husk chestnuts...
deep tree shade
year unknown
persimmon blossoms
falling...
only now noticed
year unknown
deutzia blossom hedge--
famous straw sandals
for sale
year unknown
circled by a hedge
of wild roses...
mountain home
year unknown
fondled and squeezed
Edo's mushrooms
blush red
year unknown
added to
holy Jizo's jewel...
a plum
year unknown
moon at the gate--
as the heat dwindles
so do people
year unknown
just like darkness
it sneaks in...
autumn cold
year unknown
by the next room's lamplight
I sleep...
a cold night
year unknown
night in the hut
is carousing-time...
a cold night
year unknown
at my hut
cold nights, cold days...
ah well
year unknown
looking at the mountain
looking at the sea...
autumn evening
year unknown
at the inn
the autumn evening
is forgotten
year unknown
a crab hanging on
to a reed...
autumn night
year unknown
every little island
fist after fist...
autumn dusk
year unknown
the night is long
my bottle, empty
my house, set apart
year unknown
evening cicada--
a last burst of song
to autumn
year unknown
frost has formed
on the futon...
Milky Way above
year unknown
charming--
in rural bamboo too
the Milky Way
year unknown
where the moon is rising
the home village's
cove
year unknown
on the river back home too
no doubt...
moon-gazing
year unknown
tonight's moon--
no mountain not like
the ones back home
year unknown
tonight's moon--
how many mountains resemble
the ones back home?
year unknown
tonight's moon--
mountains just like
the ones back home
year unknown
harvest moon--
side by side with the boat
a Heike crab
year unknown
counting mountains
like the ones back home...
moon-gazing
year unknown
elsewhere, no doubt
someone's viewing this island
this moon
year unknown
harvest moon--
unbefitting a woman
in a cheek scarf
year unknown
prayer beads dangling
a harvest moon prayer...
mountain home
year unknown
it's become a top-notch night
of harvest moon!
rain-drenched grass
year unknown
it's become a top-notch night
of harvest moon!
wildflowers
year unknown
harvest moon night
on the mountain, like any other...
autumn rain
year unknown
harvest moon--
hiding with their coats
lust and piss
year unknown
harvest moon--
sitting cross-legged
like Buddha
year unknown
while the water
I sprinkled is drying...
autumn wind
year unknown
Sumiyoshi's lamps
die out again...
autumn wind
year unknown
looking at smoke
I always look at...
autumn wind
year unknown
mountain path--
today beginning to feel
the autumn wind
year unknown
sunny spot--
autumn wind from the grass
strikes my very self
year unknown
autumn wind--
singing in the duckweed
how many insects?
year unknown
a bird takes flight--
a shout in the duckweed
autumn wind
year unknown
a barracks amid waves
of reeds gone to seed...
autumn gale
year unknown
when it comes inside
it dances full fury...
autumn gale
year unknown
splish-splash
a warm rain falls...
autumn gale
year unknown
warm rain falling
splish-splash...
autumn gale
year unknown
autumn gale--
but the new leaves
hang tough
year unknown
rainbow over the mountain
yet on the lake
an autumn gale
year unknown
sleeping mat--
the autumn gale blowing
the soles of my feet
year unknown
just the other day
we said goodbye...
dewy grave
year unknown
in the silver dew
one sleeve cold...
rising sun
year unknown
even on ashes
walking is scary...
dewy stones
year unknown
in the base
of a droplet of dew...
such riches!
year unknown
if someone asks
answer: it's a dewdrop
OK?
year unknown
unaware of life
passing like dewdrops...
they frolic
year unknown
even among silver
dewdrops...
some big, some little
year unknown
lightning flash--
in plume grass
a fifty-year-old face
year unknown
the lightning flash
makes someone cry...
cooling at the gate
year unknown
in morning fog
a frenzy of drops
from the tree
year unknown
autumn fog--
the river beach's pinks
have bloomed in a flash
year unknown
the orphan child
summons his mother
clapping
year unknown
the youngest child
on the grave visit
brings the broom
year unknown
stoking it
to find my shoes...
lantern for the dead
year unknown
clacking outside
straight from bed...
Bon dance clogs
year unknown
on a little mat
a woman in an underskirt
watches stars meet
year unknown
a gathering of stars--
children, grandchildren
great-great-grandchildren
year unknown
upstream a village
for just a little while...
fireworks
year unknown
silence--
the mountain's fireworks
fly into water
year unknown
in a flash the lake
is filled...
with fireworks!
year unknown
for a moment
our darkness is lit...
fireworks
year unknown
at verandah's edge
two-penny fireworks
in the night
year unknown
defeated sumo wrestler--
his father
must be watching
year unknown
protecting the camphor tree
too...
scarecrow
year unknown
like people
an upright scarecrow
can't be found
year unknown
my old age--
even facing a scarecrow
ashamed
year unknown
when I ask the way
to Obasute...
pounding cloth
year unknown
an abundance
of cooking smoke...
evening cloth-pounding
year unknown
cloth-pounding near
cloth-pounding far...
a rainy night
year unknown
into the grass
at the shrine, pouring...
new sake
year unknown
pleasure boat--
on the mountain a deer
calls his wife
year unknown
making a duet
with my flute...
cry of a deer
year unknown
solitude--
that song the shrike
is singing!
year unknown
a shrike sings--
rain puddles dry
on the back road
year unknown
edge of the thicket--
the shrike's
naughty frog
year unknown
the snipe's eyes
locked on me...
evening
year unknown
calmly opening
sleeping eyes a bit...
little snipe
year unknown
pine tree wind--
between me and a snipe
it blows
year unknown
geese landing--
the farmer's field too
a famous site
year unknown
with each goose
it's more like autumn...
dawn
year unknown
celestial geese--
none of them come down
to my pine
year unknown
geese at my gate--
another seductive rain
falls today
year unknown
geese descend--
the ancient reeds
a famous site
year unknown
geese honking--
in this year of suffering
just one harvest moon
year unknown
the titmice split
to the left and right...
Yashima Island
year unknown
high tide--
atop the moon's head
insects singing
year unknown
the insect's song
on the paper door
lingers
year unknown
still singing
the insect drifts away...
floating branch
year unknown
the bagworm
sings a song dangling
from a branch
year unknown
the bagworm
sings a song...
"I love rice cake!"
year unknown
a cicada chirrs--
my shadow's umbrella-hat
makes a halo!
year unknown
sunset--
the town is buzzing
with dragonflies
year unknown
the dragonfly's
100 prayer pilgrimage...
Mount Atago
year unknown
the discarded
umbrella-hat is loaded...
with locusts
year unknown
rustle, rustle
leaping at my shins...
locusts
year unknown
a quick dip
in the water bowl...
locust
year unknown
song of the katydid--
even the field cow
a connoisseur
year unknown
laugh at my piss
and shudder...
katydid
year unknown
when I die
guard my grave
katydid!
year unknown
cheeks stuffed
with a red flower
the katydid sings
year unknown
don't get hoarse
katydid! tomorrow is
autumn too
year unknown
the old dog
looks as if he's listening...
earthworms sing
year unknown
in a little nook
basking in the sun...
hermit chrysanthemum
year unknown
the smell of sake
around about dusk...
chrysanthemum
year unknown
cat's bell--
in the long night the chrysanthemum
has bloomed
year unknown
the emaciated chrysanthemum
totters
into bloom
year unknown
for the big
chrysanthemum too
autumn ends quickly
year unknown
morning glories
softly floating...
in the teacup
year unknown
the shrine's bell
jingles, a morning glory
blooms
year unknown
shaking her body
in the summer rain...
maiden flower
year unknown
they call this
the "Saga of Kanto"...
red autumn ivy
year unknown
one shrub
blocks the path...
blooming bush clover
year unknown
woven into
the deer fence...
bush clover blooms
year unknown
in dishevelled bush clover
thinking he's a deer...
sleeping cat
year unknown
blooming looseleaf--
just to touch it
starts autumn
year unknown
face to face
with blooming cock's comb...
field watchman
year unknown
mountain field--
blooming buckwheat's whiteness
makes me shiver
year unknown
touched by
the early sunset...
buckwheat blossoms
year unknown
creeping straight
into the spiderweb...
yam's new sprout
year unknown
the rice thresher shoulders
four or five boards...
sunset
year unknown
scent of rice plants
hits my empty stomach...
sunshine
year unknown
harvesters crossing
left some on the bridge...
rice ears
year unknown
it's cold!
a cicada in the eaves
with hot peppers
year unknown
plumes of plume grass--
the thin hearts
swishing
year unknown
autumn wind--
on this rugged mountain
sumo grass
year unknown
evening's fall colors--
the rainbow in the valley
fades away
year unknown
the shrine's snipe
spots a red leaf...
snatches it
year unknown
removing two quarts
of red leaves...
waterwheel
year unknown
when I return
people are few...
red leaves
year unknown
to a place
the cool air missed...
a leaf falls
year unknown
the roasted rice cake
wrapped for luck...
paulownia leaf
year unknown
splendidly blooming
en masse, midday's
roses of Sharon
year unknown
a splendid mountain home
and roses
of Sharon
year unknown
the early sun
reaches the valley...
roses of Sharon
year unknown
butterflies never
tire of them...
roses of Sharon
year unknown
roses of Sharon--
the hedge too good
for the house
year unknown
roses of Sharon--
in a village
mostly empty
year unknown
roses of Sharon--
too good for the house
they bloom
year unknown
its shadow moves
across the tatami mat...
the gourd
year unknown
the result
of autumn's first day...
gourds
year unknown
after cutting
the sponge gourd vine...
strangers
year unknown
horse chestnut--
how many days till you roll
down the mountain?
year unknown
having a tumble
with the acorn...
kitten
year unknown
tumbling along
without troubles...
nutless chestnut
year unknown
roasted chestnuts
indiscreetly aimed...
at the god
year unknown
burry chestnuts
get sent too...
blossoming Kyoto
year unknown
rain is over--
on the post a splendid
mushroom
year unknown
pointing them out
with a folding fan...
mushrooms
year unknown
always found
right underfoot...
mushrooms
year unknown
spore-splashed grass--
popping up one by one
mushrooms
year unknown
looking like
it's Matsubara-grown...
this mushroom
year unknown
watching the first mushroom
grow in his hand...
little boy
year unknown
peephole--
in comes moonlight
in comes the cold
year unknown
though I'm loving
these travels of mine...
it's cold!
year unknown
"a man"
signs the guest book...
a cold night
year unknown
cold night--
by a hot tub's gleam
he stitches
year unknown
my dinner tray lit
by the next room's lamplight...
winter cold
year unknown
the gate unused
to see blossoms or moon...
winter cold
year unknown
it's time for
lazy carousing...
winter cold
year unknown
withering
on the fence by the gate...
ice ball
year unknown
clamoring geese--
over there is the year
ending too?
year unknown
an arm for a pillow--
the year ends
or doesn't end
year unknown
first winter rain--
going out to buy
dinner
year unknown
Kyoto--
falling straight down
the first winter rain
year unknown
the mountain pigeon
grumbles...
winter rain
year unknown
the winter rain
dumps and dumps...
Buddha in the field
year unknown
mountain temple--
on bean-parching day
the first winter rain
year unknown
the door latch
rusting deep red...
winter rain
year unknown
the blooming cockscomb
dies standing up...
steady winter rain
year unknown
winter rain--
the lame chicken
limps away
year unknown
the mountain hermit's
fire is rising...
winter rain
year unknown
winter wind--
behind the wall
Echigo mountains
year unknown
winter wind--
"No Soliciting" on roadside
edict boards
year unknown
winter wind--
the great temple hall
is ceiling-less
year unknown
winter wind--
he can't find his roost
the evening crow
year unknown
stone still
he lets the snow fall
colt in the pasture
year unknown
falling snow--
yesterday it wasn't there
"House for Rent" sign
year unknown
looking delicious
the snow falling softly
softly
year unknown
warm and snug
blanketed with snow...
little house
year unknown
burst of snowfall--
a mad dash
to tree shade
year unknown
into deep snow
the dog dives...
letting me pass
year unknown
such gloom--
the sky looks certain
to snow
year unknown
they crave food
in the snowy village...
smoke rising
year unknown
watching snow fall
from a side window...
splendid palanquin
year unknown
on a snowy night
a neighbor's mill-pounding
echoes
year unknown
every snowy evening
the lights come on...
houses
year unknown
keeping the beat
of the prayer to Buddha...
hailstones
year unknown
winnowing basket--
chopsticks, a charm
and hailstones
year unknown
a mirage running
and hiding...
withered fields
year unknown
Basho's Death Day--
a round freshly
shaved head
year unknown
Basho's Death Day--
the visitor offers a supper
of buckwheat noodles
year unknown
Basho's Death-Day--
another year of good health
for my journey's lice
year unknown
midwinter bathing--
his head, the moon
in the water
year unknown
sweeping the soot
washing the pine...
sickle moon
year unknown
remote field--
even in a thicket
Twelfth Month singers!
year unknown
the beautiful courtesan
pets the child...
Twelfth Month singer
year unknown
is the next batch of rice cakes
for the crow?
Saiho Temple
year unknown
pounding rice cakes--
even the god of wealth
watches eagerly
year unknown
from their son in Edo
a gift for country parents...
new clothes
year unknown
Ryogoku Bridge--
even on a boat, people
drinking away the year
year unknown
about ten years old--
the calendar
on my hut's wall
year unknown
mother and children
are separated...
hunted birds
year unknown
the fleeing bird
turns back to her children
turns back...
year unknown
mother hides her
winter-chapped skin...
night nursing
year unknown
at Basho's grave
beginning with a prayer...
first paper robe
year unknown
grumble, grumble
in the winter quilt..
nagging
year unknown
hey mice
no pissing on my old
winter quilt!
year unknown
the boat arrives--
peeling off
the quilts
year unknown
snowshoes--
children show me how
to put them on
year unknown
a man pulls a snow sled
a dog atop
the cargo
year unknown
the big dog
wriggles in butt-first...
snow shed
year unknown
the market vendor
among deep mountain trees...
winter seclusion
year unknown
completely leaving behind
the full moon...
winter seclusion
year unknown
the "I'm out" sign
in itself...
winter seclusion
year unknown
hey you kids
my Benkei brazier
is my affair
year unknown
warming a tree
that will turn to gold...
winter brazier
year unknown
for the little boy
it's a doll...
winter brazier
year unknown
red berries too
on the scale...
little charcoals
year unknown
making charcoal--
isn't that slice of sky
a floating world?
year unknown
weak with age--
can't even break kindling
with my knee
year unknown
a war lord too
draws near our fire...
Oi River
year unknown
giving a traveler
my place by the fire...
dawn
year unknown
straw-wrapped natto
smolders...
little wood fire
year unknown
my life alone--
all the way to Ryogoku Bridge
for medicinal meat
year unknown
after pufferfish soup
soon fans
are flitting
year unknown
making a face
he turns down the pufferfish soup...
children's teacher
year unknown
hey wren!
do you realize it's Ninth Month
30th day?
year unknown
speak softly--
the flock of plovers
bursts into flight
year unknown
why all the fuss
over the moon tonight?
shrieking plovers
year unknown
though it's a moon
of the twenty-ninth...
plovers shrieking
year unknown
Naniwa Bay--
from Mount Tawara
shrieking plovers
year unknown
don't be kicked
foolish bird!
flock of plovers
year unknown
at my gate rice cakes--
lover ducks
quacking
year unknown
no worries
in sight at my gate...
winter fly
year unknown
so languid-
Shinano Province's
winter flies
year unknown
cold--
the withered grasses
with prickles
year unknown
my gate--
just four or five radishes
in store
year unknown
the old willow
isn't a snake...
winter withering
year unknown
still I see them
how they were...
bare winter trees
year unknown
kneading soba
gazing out the back door...
winter trees
year unknown
an oak leaf this morning
fallen
in the tofu tub
year unknown
a mouse runs
to the empty bucket...
falling leaves
year unknown
look! we're the old couple
of Takasago...
raking leaves
year unknown
winter withering--
pestles and mortars
pound and grind
year unknown
winter withering--
rolling up the sleeping mat
there's a caterpillar
year unknown
the famous tree
leans toward the ground...
out-of-season blooms
year unknown
growing colder and colder
they break...
out-of-season blooms
year unknown
borrowing the umbrella-hat
daffodil...
sleeping sparrow
year unknown
such daffodils--
that hermitage
can't be a woman's
year unknown
daffodils wreathing
into the fence...
Mount Tsukuba
year unknown
listen! the sparrow
in bamboo is chirping
"Long live Japan!"
year unknown
baby crane--
you'll die in a thousand years
or one day
year unknown
even dawn's smoke
is elegant...
Hira mountains
year unknown
with sake secretly
borrowed from a neighbor...
a little party
year unknown
a soulful reply--
greeting the festival
palanquin
year unknown
"Daddy! Daddy!" cries
my straw raincoat bug...
a rainy night
year unknown
tea smoke--
an ordinary evening
turns marvellous
year unknown
today once again
forgetting to go home...
deep shade
1788
long spring day--
the eel catcher draws pictures
on water
1788
migrating servants--
even frogs and geese
cry when they part!
1788
dancing butterflies--
my journey forgotten
for a while
1788
solitude--
whichever way I turn...
violets!
1788
colorful birds
set free in the trees...
blossoms
1788
moss blossoms bloom
in a little crack...
stone Jizo
1788
harvest moon
again and again...
between waves
1788
in the sleeve
of the parched rice bag...
traveling stick
1789
every tree
with its calling card...
spring buds
1789
even Kisa Lagoon
isn't hateful today...
blossoming spring
1789
the cure for
this raucous world...
late cherry blossoms
1789
after getting drunk
even our talk...
double cherry blossoms
1789
Kisa Lagoon--
the sun rising
autumn dusk
1789
Kisa Lagoon--
from an island's shadow
a rice barge
1790
for three pennies
nothing but mist...
telescope
1790
another two miles
for tomorrow's walk...
summer moon
1790
mountain cuckoo--
early afternoon
on a mountain road
1790
up to now
people tramped there...
field of flowers
1790
mountain temple--
deep under snow
a bell
1790
messing up
the smooth-raked salt...
plovers
1791
heat shimmers--
looking like dear friends
two graves
1791
pheasant crying--
it's a plum blossom-filled
beggar's world now!
1791
resting his hands
on the green plum, asleep...
a frog
1791
the coastal wall--
camellias
in bloom
1791
my blossom comrades
when next we meet...
how many springs from now?
1791
I will return
to sweep the blossoms
under this tree
1791
descending the mountain
a cherry blossom-viewing mood
sets in
1791
shrine festival--
today I meet
Fourth Month flowers
1791
June rain--
where's your snow now
Shinano mountains?
1791
June rain--
evening doesn't hide
the mountain's holes
1791
running for cover
praising the cloudburst...
a farmer
1791
you can't fly
you can't ladle it...
mountain's pure water
1791
even the tree by the gate
safe and sound...
evening cool
1791
cuckoo--
is this rain falling
only on me?
1791
O mountain cuckoo
don't try being
like me!
1791
lotus blossoms--
just the place for discarded
lice
1791
thorny wild roses
"Step over us here!"
as they bloom
1791
Kisa Lagoon--
riding on the waves
insects singing
1791
driving rain--
shaded by the house
insects singing
1792
from meeting rooms
of pine and bamboo...
year's first dawn
1792
spring ends in the town--
umbrella-hat, bamboo blind
vendors
1792
soft spring breeze--
but the pine of Onoe
whispers it
1792
when will we meet again?
I'm off to the phosphorescent fires
in the far mist
1792
white clouds of mist
blow away...
the village's mountain
1792
turning into white waves
at night?
the far mist
1792
the plowman stacks
volcanic rocks...
evening
1792
sea foam--
in the fleeting wave
a Heike crab
1792
cutting off my hair
like a blossom-viewing party!
wicker umbrella-hat
1792
having father and mother
he stays home...
cherry blossom day
1792
have celestial maidens
descended to earth?
blossom clouds
1792
creeping through white
cherry blossom clouds...
the mountain
1792
high noon--
the reed warbler sings
to a silent river
1792
in the summer night
I'm covered with a bath towel...
the inn
1792
sandy field--
all muddy in the heat
Kujûkuri's coast
1792
cool air--
in just one dream
seventy miles!
1792
coolness!
everything in sight
at Kiyomigata
1792
the clouds changing
into stone...
Rain of the Tiger
1792
stillness--
in the depths of the lake
billowing clouds
1792
from deep in the cloud's
billows
thunder comes
1792
tucking them in
out I go...
summer moon
1792
melting in one
amazing night...
Mount Fuji's snow
1792
in the ox cart's tracks
the barrier outpost's
pure water
1792
soaking the comb
before combing the hair...
pure water
1792
Shizu, O Shizu!
with Shizuhata porcelain
scoop pure water
1792
in Kyoto
east, west, south, north...
summer kimonos
1792
mid-river
on three or four stools...
evening cool
1792
escorted by
phosphorescent fires...
the cool air
1792
moonlight--
evening's cool reaches
Akasaka
1792
skillful courtesans!
Okazaki courtesans!
enjoying evening's cool
1792
the horse's fart
wakes me to see...
fireflies flitting
1792
into my sake cup
to investigate?
flitting firefly
1792
let him pass
like a mosquito, a fly...
solitary priest
1792
Hamamatsu beach--
helping out the cicadas
singing waves
1792
blooming bindweed--
over the withered grass
it creeps
1792
the peony falls
spilling out yesterday's
rain
1792
the plum tree
with heart at peace...
leafing green
1792
Toh Temple--
just its pagoda shows
over the summer trees
1792
hey boatman
no pissing on the moon
in the waves!
1792
Matsushima--
clapping three or four times
then again, the moon
1792
blowing from the east
west south north...
autumn gale
1792
parting the rain
the evening fog ascends...
mountain
1792
dropping in on
the Weaver...
a shooting star
1792
defeated sumo wrestler--
is his father
watching too?
1792
Kamakura--
these days scarecrows
are the gatekeepers
1792
people depart
ten thousand lanterns dying...
cry of a deer
1792
among the crags
under the storm...
insects singing
1792
mountain's red leaves
the setting sun returns
to the sky
1792
cold night--
for me, myself and I
a sleepless vigil
1792
blown back
from the barrier gate...
the cold
1792
while I looked at the duckweed
the pond
froze
1792
night wind--
the shrine's icicles
reflect the lights
1792
the ice of the moat
cracking...
winter moon
1792
winter wind--
yet the inlet's birds
get along well
1792
mountain temple--
like trying to sleep
on winter wind
1792
outside, snow
inside, soot-caked...
my home
1792
snow mountain--
what crow
has had children?
1792
a long ride--
hailstones drumming
umbrella-hats
1792
first frost--
the beggar's stove
a welcome sight
1792
first frost--
one hates buckwheat noodles
one loves 'em
1792
firewood for the new year--
a mother
no child
1792
an old man's ways--
my backside warmed
by the wood fire
1792
a wood fire--
her shadow in the window
pulling thread
1792
warming up
straw-wrapped fried rice...
my wood fire
1792
a windbreak
in the winter withering...
mountain home
1793
blossoms--
from this morning on
39 springs to go
1793
a Servants' Holiday
teashop sign
The Flail Weapon
1793
Great Japan!
even mid-journey a bowl
of rice cake soup
1793
govern the people--
even picking New Year's herbs
they suffer
1793
spring peace--
the neighbor's kimono
unsewn and washed
1793
more charming ladies
day by day...
spring days!
1793
long spring day--
even in this no man's land
a reply letter
1793
frost-white flowers--
spring ends
with you
1793
heat shimmers--
the rising sun
crosses the threshold
1793
a village child
makes a river branch...
melting snow
1793
such is life--
the burning field's bugs
a feast for birds
1793
the plowman
shows me a shortcut...
evening
1793
even birds
make nests...
beggars under the bridge
1793
evening falls--
the kite and the lark
come down
1793
birds in the clouds
people in the sea...
a holiday
1793
at the rock's base
the frog's siesta...
high noon
1793
lying down to sleep
plucking the new grass...
sunbather
1793
camellia blossoms
come falling in...
bamboo grove
1793
my sleepy mind
counting cherry blossoms...
a rainy night
1793
driving rain--
pouring over the blossoms
a temple bell
1793
when the snake comes out
there's a brave soldier...
blossom viewers
1793
cool air--
with one cracked pot
my life alone
1793
meeting at the fence--
an early summer rain
streams down
1793
"A cloudburst!"
his voice like it's New Year's
Day Three
1793
summer moon--
in the vacant lot a ruckus
of voices
1793
mountain wind--
house after house
with summer banners
1793
a new summer robe--
for a little while
no lice
1793
through green bamboo blinds
a pretty woman
in white
1793
night work--
outside the mosquito net
she thinks of her child
1793
his child massages
his shoulders...
cool air at the gate
1793
burning mosquitos--
in the paper lamp
my dear one's face
1793
only one
fans my ear...
mosquito
1793
getting lost--
I follow the mosquito's whine
to the cheap inn
1793
staying up late
swatting at mosquitos...
moon over the garden
1793
proud branches
are trimmed...
fresh leaves of the hedge
1793
Great Japan--
buried in lush leaves
a Jesus-Buddha
1793
chrysanthemum month--
for every mountain village
days of sake
1793
out of sake
such is my life alone...
a cold night
1793
his grinding teeth
wake me...
a cold night
1793
autumn evening--
a traveling man busy
stitching
1793
not only waiting
for the harvest moon to rise...
streetwalker
1793
autumn wind--
Oi River has reached
full volume
1793
field of flowers--
whose umbrella-hat
marked you?
1793
hands clapping
mother teaches her child
the dance
1793
in the lake
by a mandarin duck...
shooting star
1793
draining the rice field--
a fish also
heads home
1793
shrine fence--
raw sake raises
a ruckus of voices
1793
on the saddle
three, four, six...
locusts
1793
katydid--
for a little while
on my futon
1793
driving rain--
in Twelfth Month a man
passes by
1793
dark clouds--
climbing a mountain
of fallen snow
1793
his livelihood--
blind masseur playing flute
in the snow
1793
snowy morning--
first I dig a path
to my hermitage
1793
walking behind
a traveler...
path through snow
1793
distant sight--
in withered fields
a little house's lamp
1793
Great Japan!
even for a Buddhist temple
Ise Shrine's calendar
1793
Great Japan--
a foreigner also attends
the year's end service!
1793
winter seclusion--
cooking a chicken
praising Buddha
1793
squeezing in next
to my lover...
quilt-covered brazier
1793
watchtower--
on the Fuji-facing side
a brazier
1793
an all-day job--
digging one small chunk
of firewood
1793
waking up at dawn
top priority...
check banked fire
1793
from crappy ground
to the plum tree
the wren
1793
after the suicide
drowning...
mandarin ducks play
1793
Great Japan!
accustomed to the boat
a waterfowl sleeps
1793
winter withering
leaves light in the window...
rainy evening
1793
winter withering--
amid the storm
a sacred lantern
1793
winter withering--
over flattened plume grass
a path
1793
winter withering--
even the cherry tree
a place for straw
1793
winter withering--
tumbling now and then
vegetable seeds
1793
winter withering--
people's voices criticize
the pine fire
1793
sasanqua tree--
blooming where permitted
by the grapevine
1794
I too celebrate
with zoni...
spring journey
1794
in the year's first dream
my home village...
tears
1794
pushing up through
the dust...
a New Year's flower
1794
lovers parting--
looking back at her house
until only mist
1794
opening the window
I see the butterfly off...
into the field
1794
Mount Taka--
while viewing blossoms
a temple pilgrimage
1794
Narazaka--
even as night's blossoms bloom
the cry of a deer
1794
peach blossoms--
a belated "Happy New Year!"
for the inn's guests
1794
the tea smoke
and the willow
together trembling
1794
summer dawn--
riding an ox, asleep
the hay cutter
1794
evening sun cradles
the mountain's back...
the heat
1794
cool air--
the half moon moves
across a puddle
1794
bamboo grove--
noisy wind
from a cloudburst elsewhere
1794
my walking stick
sends the trash floating...
cloudburst
1794
billowing clouds--
the mountains in the rain
all black
1794
peaks of clouds--
looking down, down...
Mount Aso's smoke
1794
the hated barnyard grass
rears its head...
green rice field
1794
"Rain's falling!"
in trees they cheer...
frogs
1794
in and out of raindrops
they swarm...
mosquitos
1794
while looking
at poppies, poppies...
a storm
1794
irises--
where that rainbow
starts from
1794
soon I'll sleep--
when night falls
night cold
1794
in the dewy field
one sleeve cold...
rising sun
1794
bad luck!
into the bonfire for the dead
a tiger moth
1794
perfect for forgetting
one's apprenticeship...
Bon Festival dance
1794
bonfire--
a scarecrow also ends up
in evening's smoke
1794
straight from the gods
unchanging colors...
pine and waves
1794
a gutter--
racing over ice
the cooking water
1794
winter moon--
more and more and more
tall peaks
1794
in first snow
last night's pine torch
remnant
1794
shady side of the house--
the blizzard blows
a pile
1794
lamplight flickers
in the smallpox shack...
a blizzard
1794
plowing the field--
the clatter
of hailstones
1794
morning frost melts
in the floodtide...
Shinto shrine
1794
on the morning frost
the blacksmith's sparks
spurting
1794
dawn frost--
at the bathhouse gate
knocking
1794
touched gently
by lamp-lit leaf shadows...
Shinto dancers
1794
morning after morning
damn roasted radishes!
winter seclusion
1794
backstreet--
helping with briquettes
a beautiful boy
1794
evening deepens--
burning, not burning
wood fire
1794
boar hunt--
swiftly through the plume grass
evening shouts
1794
burning leaves--
sweet potatoes wrapped
in black paper
1795
New Year's Day--
that I'm still on this journey
unbelievable
1795
even beggars toast
with sesame sake...
first of spring
1795
off on a journey
I'm not alone...
first inn of the year
1795
"Ah-choo!"
is someone gossiping about me?
spring journey
1795
one kettle
one willow tree...
this too is spring
1795
the servants
all are new...
Little New Year's
1795
my New Year's
lucky direction walk...
to cherry blossoms
1795
houses here and there
fly kites, three...four...
two
1795
New Year's kite--
out of green leaves
then back in
1795
far away--
gliding above the kite
a sailboat
1795
sunny day rain
has splashed the kite...
it seems
1795
rainy day--
a monkey dancing
wakes up another
1795
pounding the seven herbs
doesn't drown him out...
crow
1795
spring peace--
after rain, a gang war
garden sparrows
1795
spring peace--
the rained-on field's
morning smoke
1795
spring dew
is sparkling already...
moon in the pine
1795
the period of mourning
ends today...
spring rain
1795
waking up--
the spring rain hasn't cleared
the day hasn't ended
1795
spring rain--
one Buddhist sermon
two haiku
1795
spring breeze--
pilgrims on their way
to rites for the dead
1795
in hazy night
stepping into water...
losing my way
1795
morning mist--
the castle's shutters
bang open
1795
at the gate
how many thousands of bushels
of far mist?
1795
drawing water
it's tepid...
nostalgia for olden times
1795
duckweed is first
to float...
rice-seedling bed
1795
when did they go?
all the swallows' nests
empty
1795
larks in the sky
people in the sea...
a holiday
1795
frogs sing, roosters sing
the east
turns light
1795
a butterfly my companion
through Nana Field
we wander
1795
lying down
with a visiting butterfly...
outer hot spring
1795
amid the white
of little fishes...
duckweed's green
1795
Heike crabs--
long ago they moon-gazed here
on boats
1795
resigning himself
to this oceanless province...
pond snail
1795
wisteria in bloom--
voices of pilgrims
voices of birds
1795
plum blossom scent--
when I open my paper door
a bright moon
1795
for the plum blossom moon
I leave one open...
rain shutter
1795
I view three masters
of the original style...
plum blossom inn
1795
there comes a time
even in blossoming Kyoto...
sick of it
1795
to my upturned face
as I pray, blossoms
drip down
1795
amid his grave's
blossoms I bow...
missing him
1795
distant mountain--
looking at the blossoms
then hurrying on my way
1795
divine providence--
throughout Japan gods
guarding blossoms
1795
peach blossoms and willow
decorate the eaves...
blossom viewing
1795
rain on the eaves--
the potted cherry tree
calm and still
1795
an off-the-cuff haiku
for a poor crop...
mountain cherry blossoms
1795
turning 'round
just missing a pretty woman...
willow tree
1795
June rain--
the five thousand five hundredth
rented umbrella
1795
seaside pure water--
wish I had my tea setup
for this shady tree
1795
far distance--
above green rice fields
three mountains
1795
the cormorants stare
at them hard...
cormorant fishermen
1795
also changing
into a summer robe...
my journey's lice
1795
my new summer robe
splashed by hot
purification water
1795
for the potted bamboo
and me...
cool air
1795
daybreak--
the rooster-less village
has a cuckoo!
1795
the weary cormorant
sees off the cuckoo
in the sky
1795
temporary shrine--
acting like he owns it
a snail
1795
green plums--
the baddest of bad boys
bare-chested
1795
vast sky
vast earth
autumn passes too
1795
under dewy umbrella-hat
nodding off...
the dog barks!
1795
to Gichu Temple
we run...
first winter rain
1796
their traveling hats
looking small...
mist
1796
birds and people
creeping through...
cherry blossoms
1796
birds on the lake
all start honking...
a cold night
1796
like the others
on tatami mats...
moon-gazing
1796
in falling snow
in straw sandals
leaving the inn
1797
becoming a child
on New Year's Day...
I wish!
1797
tranquility--
Mishima Island's boats
sail to spring
1797
blue sky--
just when evening comes
autumn wind
1797
the grave's soil
welcomes its falling...
winter rain
1798
my New Year's toast
with straw sandals on...
dawn
1798
from the nose
of the sudden riser...
mist
1798
watching rain fall
on the rice seedlings...
from the doorway
1798
crackling in the rainstorm--
field fires
mountain fires
1798
amid mustard flowers
till the ten o'clock bell...
morning tea
1798
plum blossom moon--
descending the ladder
I see it
1798
this morning I'm one
of the pure-minded priests...
plum blossoms
1798
that temple bell
sounds like Ueno's...
clouds of blossoms
1798
the blossom clouds
over Mount Miwa...
pitch black
1798
cherry blossoms--
over there an edge
of Old Japan
1798
cherry blossom clouds--
over there an edge
of Old Japan
1798
in cool air
slicing the falling rain...
lightning!
1798
wind on the greenery--
a weary cloud
hangs over
1798
popping up to see my house
in windblown greenery...
the sun
1798
new tea aroma--
my midday sleepiness
shattered
1798
in the thick weeds
same as yesterday...
fireflies
1798
calling for fireflies
flashing past my face...
a firefly
1798
in an alley
beating fleas off a mat...
bright moon
1798
harvest moon--
when my heart's had its fill
it's dawn
1799
we didn't intend
to say goodbye this soon...
spring mist
1799
though Mount Obasute
is hateful...
such pure water
1799
evening mountain--
how long will the cold wind
blast?
1799
by the hearth
last night, his smile
was farewell
1800
up to yesterday
I saw you every day...
New Year's herbs
1800
in the blossoms
calling to me clumsily...
a little bird
1800
it seems to wash
the summer mountains...
sunrise
1800
Katsushika--
mostly rice planters
on the ferry
1800
chilled soup by the river
settles to clarity...
moonlight
1801
his lock is worthless
he's told...
plowing the rice field
1801
if my father were here--
dawn colors
over green fields
1801
wind shakes the bamboo grass--
mother deer
returns
1801
cuckoo--
today I'm in good spirits
too
1801
shooing flies too
today, as he sleeps
for the last time
1801
night after night
of pestering...
fleas, mosquitos
1801
at my feet
when did you get here?
snail
1801
splashing me
the survivor...
grassy dew
1802
New Year's pine--
alone, listening to
the evening rain
1802
eye-catching
over the sunset mountain...
a kite
1802
rice cake soup--
deep in mountains garnished
with sakaki leaves
1802
a yew plum pine
planted today...
listening to night's spring rain
1802
a hair cord maker's
white wooden clogs...
spring moon
1802
a river of broth
steaming...
spring moon
1802
from the temple's
noon bath rising...
spring mist
1802
heat shimmers--
snow in the little thicket
winking
1802
ice melting--
in the threshold
early evening's moon
1802
behind me I hear
the Fox Festival...
Ueno Hill
1802
no Fox Festival ruckus
on this hill...
plum blossoms
1802
Fox Festival--
what village is this
in the mountain's nook?
1802
below the bush warbler's
chin...
Awaji Island
1802
today they're flying
in the bathhouse town...
swallow swarm
1802
stopping to watch
the pines at dusk...
geese flying north
1802
darkening dusk--
in one hackberry tree
croaking frogs
1802
a meadow butterfly
bombarded by big raindrops
from the eaves
1802
flecked with sand
from the whirlwind...
little butterfly
1802
rain shower--
yesterday at this time
meadow butterflies
1802
someone's draped them
over the azaleas...
bracken
1802
one branch makes
Kyoto's sky...
plum blossoms
1802
like olden times--
plum blossoms here and there
evening's wooden drum
1802
cherry blossoms scatter--
the servant Taro
is relieved
1802
holding up
the hazy moon...
willow tree
1802
the main road
dry from drought...
midsummer
1802
pitter-patter rain--
a wild cormorant mother
cries on a branch
1802
from my bed
I peek outside...
new summer robes
1802
one feeble light
shining in the eaves...
firefly
1802
setting a turtle free
and with it...
a flea
1802
that one by itself
will be my star...
Milky Way
1802
a foot-deep flood
at the gate...
autumn wind
1802
in a lifeboat
parents and children...
welcome Tanabata
1802
in the bamboo grove
too late at night!
pounding cloth
1802
where there's a village
there's people...
the snipe flies off
1802
the snipes too
tired of standing...
treeless hill
1802
a snipe rises--
now let the evening
begin!
1802
gradually the geese
pass on...
rice field moon
1802
rain on the beach
stamping out
the wood fire
1803
removing my skullcap--
at everywhich gate
spring blossoms
1803
even at my penned-in
house...
spring blossoms
1803
"Spring begins"
just saying it...
green everywhere
1803
stretching his neck
the turtle waits too...
the year's first day
1803
even in our faces
the year's first dawn...
the emperor's pine
1803
ending the Servants' Holiday
on purpose...
sliver moon
1803
under a clear sky
on a mountain...
year's first archery
1803
at dawn
I start the spring...
borrowed clothes
1803
begging actors
play one more song!
spring snow
1803
the gruel cauldron
all clean and ready...
herbs in the field
1803
a tree stump at the edge
of his holy face...
picking herbs
1803
in the bamboo basket
only a bit, of course...
New Year's herbs
1803
right underfoot
for travelers...
field of New Year's herbs
1803
picking, picking
picking New Year's herbs...
who is it?
1803
into my sleeve
fresh-picked New Year's herbs...
Sumida River
1803
in the eaves
the remnants still cling...
blooming New Year's herbs
1803
the rooster also sings
to Great Japan...
on the rice cake mill
1803
serving as rooster
for Great Japan...
rice cake pounding
1803
let rice cake pounding
be your rooster...
Great Japan
1803
sign of spring--
even Kyoto's sparrows
start chirping
1803
small sign of spring--
snow sled leaning
against the fence
1803
on the blessed
Day of the Ox
the mountain, still cold
1803
digging out the well--
one more
sign of spring
1803
everyone's little sister
getting married...
sign of spring
1803
scattering onto
my purple sleeves...
spring snow
1803
Kitasaga--
in evening rain
a pestle from olden times
1803
at my dinner tray
a sparrow chirps...
spring rain
1803
spring rain--
pounding those rice cakes
house on a hill
1803
spring rain--
elsewhere the shrines
are wonderful
1803
a crow's feather
on a toasted rice cake...
spring rain
1803
spring breeze--
though deep in the grasses
my home village
1803
seeing Kyoto
I massage my shins...
spring mist
1803
on horseback
making a silent bow...
thin mist
1803
heat shimmers--
having lost a child
the bird's face
1803
melting snow--
at the foot of the mountain
a festival!
1803
saved from the fire
a nest in its beak...
the crow moves on
1803
when the bush warbler
moves into the pine...
voice of the pine
1803
bush warbler singing--
to the south a goose
clacking
1803
pine islands--
which one's good for sleeping
evening lark?
1803
evening lark--
which pine island's
your sleeping place?
1803
the dawn moon in raindrops
from the eaves...
the geese depart
1803
eating my rice
by lamplight...
the geese depart
1803
all eager to see
Mount Sarashina...
departing geese
1803
the rice field geese
all head north...
a lucky spring day
1803
geese flying north--
the stage barn's lamplight
in mist
1803
departing geese
what are you
gabbing about?
1803
departing geese
over Hokuroku Road
departing
1803
on the day of departure, too
she leads...
the widow goose
1803
the gateway's lamp
in mist...
the geese depart
1803
rain-drenched grass
moon in the pine...
the geese depart
1803
a fleeting moonlit
wedding night...
frogs singing
1803
even in the well bucket
croaking all night...
a frog
1803
jumping while croaking--
the frog in
rain-drenched grass
1803
picking mulberry leaves--
the baby on her back
stretches a hand
1803
with thin arms
stripping mulberry leaves...
night rain
1803
how many people
waiting for evening?
wisteria in bloom
1803
it seems likely
someone's at home...
plum blossoms
1803
plum trees bloom
bush warblers sing...
all alone
1803
plum moon--
facing the blossoms
sewer water
1803
a branch of blooming plum
awaits the thief...
evening
1803
don't let the plum
blossom guard cut your
tongues, sparrows!
1803
waited so long
for just one branch...
plum blossoms
1803
in Katsushika
how many connoisseurs!
plum blossoms
1803
at his house
though he's dirt-poor...
plum blossoms
1803
laying my hands on them
suddenly, a face...
plum blossoms
1803
guarding a house
with no live coals...
plum blossoms
1803
the owl
sees them first...
plum blossoms
1803
among the pines
all alone
a plum tree blooms
1803
tis the season
for taking a wife...
plum blossoms
1803
a harsh rain
falls at noon...
blossoming mountain
1803
off to one side
they're breath-taking...
blossom viewing
1803
an old man's
flattering laughter...
blossom shade
1803
blossom clouds--
the loyal retainers
of Old Japan
1803
evening falls--
a bird of prey flies
into blossoms
1803
by tomorrow
one mountain left...
cherry blossoms
1803
an ancient cherry tree
in bloom...
evening bell
1803
in a warm province
you see wheat...
mountain cherry blossoms
1803
a mountain where
no foot has stepped...
cherry blossoms
1803
these cherry blossoms
people eat...
Yoshino Hill
1803
the mountain cherry blossoms
fell yesterday...
visitors from Edo
1803
evening cherry blossoms--
people with homes
hurry home
1803
for the strange village
a prayer...
peach blossoms
1803
green willows
are the first thing seen...
Sumida River
1803
from here on
it's Great Japan!
willow trees
1803
it's still
a Sixth Month sky...
summer's last day
1803
short summer night--
at the gate a happy
hackberry tree
1803
short summer night--
a deer pokes her face
through the hedge
1803
hemp plants soak
in the pond a bit...
cooling off
1803
such cool air!
just ankle-deep
the little river
1803
from the treetop
gliding into midsummer...
bright moon
1803
tucking me in
they cover my lap...
midsummer clouds
1803
the house has become
one heap of ivy...
June rain
1803
every day
the briefest of stops...
June rain
1803
the house pillar
suddenly looks bent...
June rain
1803
in June rain
hidden by bamboo...
farmhouse
1803
June rain--
the second floor room
has wildflowers!
1803
even the branches
viewed from the second floor...
June rain
1803
little by little
work on the second floor...
June rain
1803
on the river's bank
already it's a moonlit night...
billowing clouds
1803
billowing clouds--
have the pine trees
shrunk a bit?
1803
emerging under
billowing clouds...
a little boat
1803
for the moment
straight above my pillow...
billowing clouds
1803
a vast river island
gone without a trace...
summer moon
1803
if you're a beggar
get out of Kyoto!
summer moon
1803
a so-called "summer moon"
one night
two nights...
1803
summer moon--
this river island then
and now
1803
summer moon--
the second-story dweller's
second-story view
1803
a big crop
for my neighbor's pear tree...
summer moon
1803
the scrawny pine, too
looks extravagant...
summer moon
1803
summer mountain--
one foot on it
for Mother's sake
1803
finally a clear sky
yet no moon...
summer mountain
1803
slicing off fat
on the summer mountain...
moonlight
1803
summer mountain--
with each step more
of the sea
1803
a rumble of thunder
in my empty stomach...
summer field
1803
now you can't tell
where the well is...
picking summer flowers
1803
in the outcaste village
overlooked...
summer banners
1803
behind the night fishing
light
in a grove
1803
rain showers
to the north and east...
fishing the night river
1803
the great lord
does the brushing...
horse's sweat
1803
chewing the side
of her candy stick...
summer kimono
1803
my everyday umbrella-hat
doesn't match it...
summer kimono
1803
seeing the green mountain
for the first time...
ladies with parasols
1803
I see Mokubo Temple
I see ladies
with parasols
1803
gate after gate
the rain has cleared...
green bamboo blinds
1803
wind blows--
lots of rips, my so-called
mosquito net
1803
his starched summer
robe his blanket...
siesta
1803
entrusting it
to the green willow...
my paper fan
1803
in morning shadows
he passes through the barrier gate...
with paper fan
1803
sweeping off three drops
of rain in passing...
paper fan
1803
moon on the sea--
he's under his fan
asleep
1803
my old face rests
in morning glories...
fanning my paper fan
1803
holding
such a pretty fan...
the widow
1803
downwind, an orchid
in moonlight...
smudge pot smoke
1803
descending Mount Fuji
blow! blow!
smudge pot smoke
1803
pounding rice cakes
to the west, to the east
smudge pots
1803
holding a lantern
tidying up...
evening cool
1803
in the foot-tall bamboo
night after night...
cool air
1803
speak of the devil!
a snipe takes flight...
evening cool
1803
one tree
one farmer's field...
evening cool
1803
this tree hates
to be touched...
evening cool
1803
planting a pine too
for after I die...
evening cool
1803
if you get too close
the hackberry tree will curse you!
evening cool
1803
pine sapling--
before long, strangers enjoy
evening's cool
1803
going too far
into the thick of thorns...
evening cool
1803
a promise
of cool air this evening...
moon at the gate
1803
planting bamboo
to be gloomy and dark...
evening
1803
bold with people
who come and go...
fawn
1803
fawn chasing
each other...
big brother, little brother
1803
a mother deer
so well hidden...
in the trees
1803
tucked in a nook
still unweaned...
the fawn
1803
lingering
under the paper umbrella...
a fawn
1803
the fawn's become
bold with people...
temple lawn
1803
dawn--
from atop the wheat
"Cuckoo!"
1803
on a low branch
a child's imitation...
mountain cuckoo
1803
so is haiku hell
over that-a-way...
mountain cuckoo?
1803
from the fir tree too
two are singing...
mountain cuckoos
1803
reed warbler--
the cow doesn't answer
his question
1803
chased away
from my napping spot...
mosquito-spurting grass
1803
lit by the mosquito-murdering
taper...
my white hair
1803
mosquito evening--
a monk driven away
from the tree
1803
a mosquito
all day it whines...
by my pillow
1803
left out all night
the tofu gleams...
mosquitos whine
1803
swatting at a fly
looking at
a mountain
1803
wind still blows
moon still shines...
inn of fleas
1803
the grasses' fleas
pitter-patter return...
lamplight's shade
1803
while the floating island
moves along...
cicada chorus
1803
for moonflowers
long time no see...
bright moon
1803
I'm becoming
a Moonflower Rich Man...
such stars!
1803
moon blossom--
above the tall grasses
it blooms alone
1803
moonflowers--
a warrior celebrates
the rain
1803
moonflowers--
the willow becomes
their moon
1803
moonflowers--
one by one the wind
rustles them
1803
heat shimmers
on top of heat shimmers...
poppies
1803
the tall pines
end up sunburned
O poppies!
1803
from the day they bloomed
drenched by rain...
poppies
1803
among footprints
of long-ago warriors...
poppies
1803
the gatekeeper's
side-field...
let the poppies bloom!
1803
awestruck
beneath the morning star...
hollyhocks
1803
at dawn
not a soul in sight...
lotus blossoms
1803
in the white lotuses
two or three strands
of willow
1803
even in the mouth
of the gutter pipe...
lotuses
1803
the scent of lotuses
in the back
house on a hill
1803
against the mountain pine
they're blown...
lilies
1803
staring at me
on and on...
toad in the lilies
1803
duckweed blooms--
and below that
a street
1803
duckweed--
a little black butterfly
flitting
1803
a Mount Fuji viewing spot
for wheat harvesters...
hackberry tree
1803
leftovers in the mountain
spring's ditch...
wheat harvest
1803
the wheat harvesters
show no mercy...
young bamboo
1803
just as young bamboo
start to rise...
lightning flash
1803
also running late--
my garden's
eggplants
1803
where the seedling
seller passed...
first eggplant
1803
one more day
of leafy shade for you...
eggplant
1803
on the gate's post
where the pony is tied...
fresh green leaves
1803
for the second day
the same big snake...
thick summer grasses
1803
every day
four or five fall...
Sleeping Tree's blossoms
1803
the green plum
also accepts the feeling
of the ant
1803
groping for plums--
the frog on the branch
is magnanimous
1803
autumn cold--
wherever I go people
have homes
1803
daylight--
this damned world
of cold autumn!
1803
nippy air--
far to my back
is Mount Tsukuba
1803
skin-chilling air
strolls into the land...
evening falls
1803
paying no heed
to morning's cold...
shoots of rice
1803
he checks the bamboo
with concern...
morning cold
1803
living too long
a cold night at the gate...
moon in bamboo
1803
beating the empty
straw bag--nothing!
a cold night
1803
by flickering lamplight
someone's face...
a cold night
1803
all I can see
a tree, a mountain...
a cold night
1803
while leaning on it
it's turned chilly...
the post
1803
all alone
the orphan bird chirps...
autumn dusk
1803
even the pine tree
I planted grows old!
autumn dusk
1803
"It's a foolishly long
night!" I say
in the long night
1803
the pine wind
blows in my ear...
a long night
1803
Milky Way--
maybe the fools of Kyoto
are crying
1803
a cloud zigzags
above where I lie...
Milky Way
1803
a clear view
in the soup kettle...
Milky Way
1803
some spots up there
look deep...
heaven's river of stars
1803
where will my star
stop for the night?
Milky Way
1803
the defeated wrestler, too
joins the crowd...
bright moon
1803
no westward facing
pissing tonight...
bright moon
1803
the harvest moon
comes tomorrow...
evening rain
1803
behind a mountain
where the old were left to die...
tonight's moon
1803
rain in the grass
moon in the pine...
night of the 15th
1803
on the white rock's
white heart...
moon-gazing
1803
harvest moon
up in that sky...
for foreigners, too!
1803
there's water
beyond the stubble...
clear fall weather
1803
autumn rain--
the lamplight lights
my knees
1803
autumn rain--
night begins now
for the hackberry tree
1803
the pony leaves
his home village...
autumn rain
1803
the wind chills
one sleeve...
autumn rain
1803
the half-eaten melon's
young green leaf...
autumn rain
1803
its mouth open
waiting for mother...
baby bird in the autumn rain
1803
what's your home village like
rice field goose?
autumn rain
1803
lamplight glimmers
on my knees...
autumn rain
1803
on four or five
slender blades of grass
autumn rain
1803
even the pine tree
looks rustic...
autumn rain
1803
the autumn wind
blows as if it knows
I'm an orphan
1803
two leaves of radish
rejoice!
autumn wind
1803
one by one
everyone has left...
autumn wind
1803
sunset--
from people's faces
the autumn wind
1803
shining up
the evening moon...
autumn wind
1803
humidity--
from beneath a stone
wildflowers
1803
humidity--
even one blade of grass
is autumn
1803
signs of morning dew
start to show...
my sleeves
1803
hitting shins
that have lived too long...
grass's dew
1803
clinging to the lord's
umbrella-hat too...
evening dew
1803
a wrinkled face
he's my age...
lanterns for the dead
1803
Bon lanterns--
yesterday's roof tiles
today are weeds
1803
stopping to watch
three, two...
lanterns for the dead
1803
in pine-tree shade
the one who doesn't dance
ivory white
1803
the sound of oars
lingers...
good stars tonight
1803
for the fisherman's
rising smoke too...
good stars tonight
1803
going outside
to enjoy Tanabata night...
river beach
1803
Tanabata night--
the man in the boat
must be a dad
1803
Tanabata night--
adjusting my pillow
to watch the flow
1803
Tanabata in Great Japan--
one out of three
are male
1803
lying on my back
legs stretched forth...
stars of Tanabata
1803
the sun sets
on the tournament...
sumo champion
1803
sitting in front
his father's face...
defeated wrestler
1803
even the scarecrow
turns his back to it...
my home
1803
sound of river
sound of bird clapper...
daybreak is near
1803
favoring
Mount Akahage...
distant cloth-pounding
1803
in one ear a bell
on the ridge, someone pounding cloth
in the evening
1803
pounding cloth
in the night...
rain on the hackberry tree
1803
her mouth and hands
not like everyone's...
evening cloth-pounding
1803
the flood was exactly
a year ago...
evening cloth-pounding
1803
the lord of Sarashina's
buckwheat fields...
evening cloth-pounding
1803
Sarashina--
in a dark direction
evening cloth-pounding
1803
this afternoon in Suma
autumn begins...
distant cloth-pounding
1803
dangling from
the young buck's antler
weeds
1803
a crow pays
the wild geese a visit...
rice field
1803
the little crow
is snubbed...
rice field geese
1803
another year
they're back for the massacre...
rice field geese
1803
flying south
for the slaughter?
celestial geese
1803
a new face
in the flock...
rice field geese
1803
unexpectedly
a crow comes down...
rice field
1803
as evening falls
a crow comes down too...
rice field
1803
when you return
don't forget my house!
departing swallows
1803
"The world of man
and me are good!"
locusts fly
1803
after a wasted night
the rain falls...
katydid
1803
today again
death draws closer...
the wildflowers
1803
their many colors
fade so soon...
chrysanthemums
1803
morning glories
blooming thick...
someone else's house
1803
morning glories
utterly drenched...
a passing rain
1803
nowadays
I see no people...
window ivy
1803
red autumn ivy--
another house
I wish I had
1803
pine's ivy--
after leaves turn red
cut down
1803
Sir Horse's fart
wafting over...
blooming bush clover
1803
disheveled bush clover--
wild like
weeds by the gate
1803
scrawny bush clover
in pine tree shade...
blooming now
1803
swaggering toward
the dinner tray...
autumn-red arrowroot
1803
the headwaters too
usher in autumn...
arrowroot vines
1803
the divine wind
blows a blessing...
spears of rice
1803
a big pig
sticks out his face...
blooming reeds
1803
downstream, the gate
to knowledge...
evening's red leaves
1803
pulled by my heart
to step where none have stepped...
evening's red leaves
1803
green onions raised
by two households...
red persimmon leaves
1803
lying down with
the holy man we watch...
one leaf fall
1803
hitting shins
that have lived too long...
one leaf falls
1803
waking up
it's hugging one knee...
one fallen leaf
1803
a chalice
for the silver dew...
paulownia leaf
1803
from where moonlight
doesn't shine...
a paulownia leaf
1803
people have gone
lanterns have died...
a paulownia leaf falls
1803
softly, softly
a lucky day dawns...
one leaf falls
1803
falling to hug
these skinny shins...
paulownia leaf
1803
as evening falls
another hugs my lap...
paulownia leaf
1803
taking hold
of the mountain pepper...
little kettle
1803
it's all yours
butterfly, take a rest
on the mushroom
1803
did you pop up
with the matsutake mushrooms?
mountain rabbit
1803
Kyoto's Twelfth Month--
in a high place
Buddha laughs
1803
indifferent--
the hackberry tree
in Twelfth Month
1803
a traveler's sky--
Twelfth Month
29th day
1803
the cold season
must be here...
evening prayers
1803
even from falling rain
stabbing
cold
1803
even the well
is padlocked...
winter cold
1803
palms
in the cooking smoke
winter cold
1803
bird wings
brush against the eaves...
winter cold
1803
driftwood floating
this way, that way...
ends the year
1803
over one wall
the sea wind blows...
winter moon
1803
the winter moon
hanging over...
back window
1803
the winter moon
on my lap...
mountain home
1803
cedars are tall
in my hometown...
first winter rain
1803
first winter rain--
even the warlord's horse
wears his crest
1803
right away
a second winter rainfall...
mountain home
1803
cold northern rain--
the fire-starter's face
smells burnt
1803
on the neighbor's house
where smoke rises...
winter rain
1803
winter rain--
led by a cow
to Zenkô Temple
1803
windblown here they come--
the winter rain
the thin man
1803
mountain house--
it's off, it's on
the winter rain
1803
rainy winter night--
the horse neighs too
toward his home village
1803
evening of winter rain--
a rice field crane
stands tall
1803
in night's winter rain
a face...
his parents' gate
1803
winter rain
pouring down on me...
Kazusa mountains
1803
winter rain cloud
every day snagged
in the hackberry tree
1803
three meals a day
this trip, too much!
winter storm clouds
1803
"The wind
is cold! cold! cold!"
ceramic lamp
1803
settling into a night
of winter wind...
hackberry tree
1803
winter wind--
smoke from a sawdust fire
house at the crossroads
1803
winter wind--
looking in the gate
with a little lantern
1803
winter wind--
on the wall's ledge
the horse's bucket
1803
winter wind--
this hill's enough
for people today
1803
winter wind--
Awaji Island is called
"neighbor"
1803
winter wind--
next to my pillow
Awaji Island
1803
the youngest child too
twining rope...
sunny spot in winter
1803
hearing of first snow
a dreadful thing...
old man
1803
the first snow
softly, softly clings...
side lock of hair
1803
fifth-day moon--
do you also get tired
of this world's snow?
1803
sound of ocean
north of the wall...
night snow
1803
rising sun--
brazier at the gate
snow on the grass
1803
night after night
paired with the snow...
vegetable rice gruel
1803
onto high noon's grasses
flitting down...
snowflakes
1803
the imperial guard's fire
blazes still more...
hailstones
1803
hey hailstones!
keep falling and the oak
won't grow
1803
feels so wrong--
moon shining
on falling sleet
1803
my sake keg
unwrapped and open...
sleet pouring down
1803
my tea-boiled rice
in the palm of my hand...
falling sleet
1803
sweeping sleet--
at the rafter's metal tip
a bright moon
1803
night sleet--
even my bamboo plant
in a rotten mood
1803
steam from boiling soup
a fence...
falling sleet
1803
my full serving of vegetables
all greens...
morning frost
1803
waking up
with a sneeze...
frost on the grass
1803
warming my palms
in the cooking smoke...
morning frost
1803
the old man's skirt
hiked up his thighs...
morning frost
1803
on a secluded house
the warm sun...
withered fields
1803
through one sleeve
the wind passes...
withered fields
1803
a seven-child ruckus
in withered fields...
little house
1803
splish-splash
splash-splish the rain...
withered fields
1803
he hates taking
the shortcut...
withered fields
1803
a bird of prey
and smoke...
over withered fields
1803
the anti-insect charm
flutters, flutters...
withered fields
1803
my shadow looks
like the Old Man's!
first winter rain
1803
an old man
joins in too...
Shinto dancers
1803
ignoring the blooming
plum trees...
winter prayers
1803
even a rooster singing
Great Japan!
rice cake tub
1803
the rice cake pounding
is now behind me...
Sumida River
1803
also a year older
the crane flies down...
a field
1803
dawn
at the hunting shack...
the dog's bell
1803
his wicker fishing trap
built once more...
deep mountain haze
1803
the posts driven in
by his father's father...
wicker fish trap
1803
did his father
plant this ivy?
wicker fish trapper hut
1803
three or four have
drifted to shore...
firewood for the new year
1803
in the teeth
of Mount Fuji's wind...
winter skullcap
1803
around noon
I come back to fold it up...
futon
1803
three or five stars
by the time I fold it...
futon
1803
the death bell
tolls at the temple...
winter seclusion
1803
my father saw
this same damn mountain...
winter seclusion
1803
for pure water
go to Edo's outskirts...
winter seclusion
1803
among tufted grasses
a good midday nap...
ceramic brazier
1803
even my bramble door
looks less shoddy...
little brazier
1803
the sun shines
only till sunset...
ceramic brazier
1803
the river's wind
blows due west...
a big brazier
1803
the best blazing
fire in town...
my brazier
1803
almost two days now
squatting inside...
by my brazier
1803
on the nape
of my neck, setting sun
and hibachi
1803
that wind through pines
is getting old...
little brazier
1803
a quick look
at the pine on the peak...
then my brazier!
1803
red-faced he watches
his yew shrub grow...
brazier
1803
leaving at dawn--
brazier, pines
and Mount Tsukuba
1803
emulating me--
brazier
without fire
1803
on the riverbank
the brazier goes cold...
evening
1803
riverbank--
the drunk man's brazier
goes cold
1803
southern sky--
by the watchtower's brazier
lonely
1803
red berries too
roll and tumble...
little charcoals
1803
how many red berries
amid the charcoals
on the scale?
1803
after getting up
I hear a crow...
starting my charcoal fire
1803
charcoal catching
fire blazes fiercely...
dawn
1803
charcoal-smashing
arms charcoal-dusted...
evening rain
1803
a charcoal fire
happy and well...
the thicket next door
1803
even my charcoal fire
piss-poor...
evening
1803
nicely done
in my earthen mortar...
charcoal fire
1803
the rooster flaps and crows
"It's time!"
morning's charcoal fire
1803
two or three bags
of little charcoals...
so quick
1803
snap and crackle
the camellia blooms
the coal fire smokes
1803
like a rainy night
in olden times...
charcoal on the scale
1803
through the thicket
happy and well...
morning's charcoal fire
1803
night after night
my charcoal fire...
lucky but alone
1803
fearfully fast
your life slips away too...
charcoal bag
1803
disappointment--
my dried-out sagging
bag of charcoal
1803
my charcoal goes quickly--
bag's bottom
lit by a sickle moon
1803
in just a twinkling
you've gotten low...
charcoal bag
1803
no sooner than I thought
it an obstacle...
charcoal bag
1803
sealed inside
the charcoal kiln...
a rising sun
1803
red berries too
roll and tumble...
briquettes
1803
rainy day--
tramping over firewood
to my evening's gazing
1803
happiness
just before dawn
is a wood fire
1803
vegetables hung to dry
at two houses...
thatch dripping rain
1803
vegetables hung to dry
in front...
two little houses
1803
smack in front
of Buddha, vegetables
hung to dry
1803
looking shameful
to the pufferfish...
people's faces
1803
for the headman
in the house facing mine...
pufferfish soup
1803
Kyoto, Kyoto
in the heart of Kyoto!
pufferfish soup
1803
how much are you bringing
to the headman?
pufferfish soup
1803
red leaves
flitting down...
pufferfish soup
1803
pufferfish soup--
putting on airs
like a great courtier
1803
a pufferfish soup-lover
in the facing window...
rented house
1803
pufferfish soup--
not wanting to eat
the head
1803
in Kyoto
even for apprentices!
pufferfish soup
1803
for a great courtier
of the imperial palace...
pufferfish soup
1803
the mountain's red leaves
blowing down...
pufferfish soup
1803
from one side
wind from the hills...
plovers singing
1803
from atop a kettle
in evening's glow...
a plover's song
1803
a temple bell tolls
a waterfowl calls...
a dark night
1803
in falling rain
waterfowl...
healthy and spry
1803
trust in the Buddha
waterfowl!
a rainy night
1803
whichever way
you fly, waterfowl...
it's dusk
1803
waterfowl--
each and every human
so busy
1803
to wherever
the wind may blow it...
a pufferfish
1803
a tiger pufferfish
face sticks out...
shade of leaves
1803
from scallions
a face sticks out...
pufferfish
1803
even in Kyoto
the same as always...
pufferfish face
1803
my hem caught
on withered bush clover...
sunset
1803
winter's withered bush clover
peaceful too...
house for sale
1803
those red berries
are poisonous!
withered plume grass
1803
withered plume grass--
a solitary house
for sale
1803
that one is
tomorrow night's dinner...
radish
1803
even if winter rain falls
I'll save this one
radish
1803
yanking radishes
one by one...
watching the clouds
1803
in the rain shower
standing straight...
the radish puller
1803
winter arrives
at my hut...
a scrawny radish
1803
the house for sale
so peaceful...
withered roses
1803
he kindly cleared away
the withered roses...
former owner
1803
its dragged foot
makes a rice paddy...
withered roses
1803
those red berries
what on earth are they?
withering grove
1803
two or three leaves
are tenacious...
winter grove
1803
more fertilizer
for the evening mountain garden...
red leaves fall
1803
sadly sunset
comes fast...
out-of-season blooms
1803
north window--
though scorned by people
out-of-season blooms
1803
surprising
the gardener...
out-of-season blooms
1803
by a mountain stream
catching a chill...
out-of-season blooms
1803
also facing
the sea...
winter camellias
1803
thrusting up
throught dried-up mud...
winter camellias
1803
"No warmth in this house!"
the stuck-up
winter camellia
1803
without seeing sunlight
the winter camellia
blooms
1803
"No society here!"
the stuck-up
winter camellia
1803
the pillar marking
Shichigo village...
hackberry tree
1803
a clear sky
at high noon...
walking out alone
1804
on New Year's Day
tall as a sleeping man...
the clouds
1804
First Month--
the plum trees blooming
elsewhere
1804
once again
I've managed not to die...
blossoming spring
1804
my spring--
a bit of bamboo
and a willow sprig
1804
spring begins--
forty three years
fed by strangers
1804
spring begins--
Mount Tsukuba a vision
from long ago
1804
spring begins--
in Yoshino the faces
of fools
1804
without a shred
of pine decoration...
the year's first dawn
1804
I greet the year's first dawn
in the top bunk...
inn
1804
in the top bunk
I'm first to greet it...
year's first dawn
1804
choosing a branch
for her "pregnancy stick"...
Mount Oshio
1804
the homecoming servant
stands in front
visiting graves
1804
homecoming servant--
Shinto dances on the mountain
ended yesterday
1804
homecoming servant--
the graveyard's pine
safe and sound
1804
Servants' Holiday!
sing "Great Japan"
rain on the wheat field
1804
even a hackberry tree
is uprooted...
first day of Rat
1804
yanking up trees
he saves one for moon-gazing...
little pine
1804
down comes my New Year's pine--
let the god of wealth
be shocked!
1804
a Sumiyoshi shrine charm
attached too...
gate's pine decoration
1804
keeping the falling
snow company...
New Year's pine
1804
the begging actors
pay a visit...
parents and children
1804
the pounding
of the seven herbs resumes...
noontime
1804
are you coming down
crane, to see?
picking herbs
1804
the kettle's lid
rattle-rattles...
New Year's herbs
1804
right underfoot
for travelers...
morning's New Year's herbs
1804
in every thicket
where people live...
pounding New Year's herbs
1804
Great Japan's answer
to cock-a-doodle-doo...
rice cake pounding
1804
to my home village
the water flows...
springtime
1804
spring peace--
last year which tree root
was my pillow?
1804
the spring day's
remnants...
only in the water
1804
spring evening--
he comes out to pet
the gourd
1804
spring rushes by
so little of it left...
mountain rain
1804
Kyoto citizens
just sick of it...
spring snow
1804
fancy footwork
through tufted grasses...
spring rain
1804
not falling
on the predicted day...
spring rain
1804
steam of boiling water
in the hedge...
spring rain
1804
on the nondrinker's
row house...
spring rain
1804
watching the river
through a window of trees...
spring rain falls
1804
yesterday from bed
I could see Mount Saga...
spring rain
1804
haystacks fat and round
when clouds clear...
spring rain
1804
who's sleeping
up on Mount Saga?
spring rain
1804
"Sake for sale"
a sign on a wall...
spring rain
1804
the white wall
is farther away...
spring rain
1804
water trickles
from the cloth-pounding mallet...
spring rain
1804
sleeve for a hat
watching water...
spring rain
1804
tall as my sleeve
it's a happy hedge...
spring rain
1804
because of spring rain
the dear hackberry tree
is missed
1804
becoming inured
to spring's rain...
lamp-lit house in the trees
1804
a lot of shaking
in spring rain...
tea-drinking bridge
1804
standing tall
in the spring rain...
hackberry tree
1804
spring rain
so soon is annoying...
hackberry tree
1804
spring rain--
alongside the smoke
my sweetheart's gate
1804
spring rain--
a sparrow begs
by my dinner tray
1804
spring rain--
lamps lit so early
on Mount Matchi
1804
spring rain--
a delightful fire
under the kettle
1804
steam on the bay
past midday...
spring rain
1804
walking along
a baking pan on his head...
spring rain
1804
clang once more
mountain temple bell!
spring rain
1804
my pine tree too
is grateful...
spring rain
1804
the little tub's
braided bamboo is green...
spring breeze
1804
not a blade of grass
untouched by the spring breeze...
country jelly
1804
spring breeze--
golden flowers bloom
on Mutsu mountain
1804
the pine saplings
over shoulder-high...
spring breeze
1804
walking in mist
in a little sedge hat
with both parents
1804
in heat shimmers
the holy man's
bare feet
1804
splashed with slush
close to the ground...
a high priest's face
1804
secluded house--
even here, crowd-sick
spring mountain
1804
the old priest
in his fancy clothes...
spring mountain
1804
pinching head lice
in a doorway...
spring fields
1804
cowberries too
at the festival...
red flowers
1804
in Katsushika
like olden times, unchanged...
Doll Festival
1804
the mist covers up
the women first...
shell gathering
1804
solitude--
even on a low tide day
Sumida River
1804
low tide
in a soft, soft rain...
darkness coming
1804
low tide--
to my woman's house
a long way to go
1804
low tide--
the mist wrecks my view
of the women
1804
low tide
without pine trees...
lonelier still
1804
at Sumiyoshi
all through the low tide...
moon in the pine
1804
waited so long
for the low tide...
a driving rain
1804
a house
with a rooster crowing...
low tide
1804
rain falling--
for shellfish gatherers
the sunset bell at last
1804
from the temple
quick and easy access...
shell gathering
1804
where I've seen
birds nesting...
they burn the mountain
1804
toward the open mouth
of the nesting bird...
the sunset bell tolls
1804
pray good health
for the nesting bird!
Amida's priest
1804
the bird nest
in plain sight for all to see...
hackberry tree
1804
bird's nest--
tomorrow the pine by the gate
will be cut down
1804
"Happy New Year,
long live Japan!"
a baby sparrow cheeps
1804
sparrow babies
in plum blossoms
praise Buddha!
1804
bush warbler
are you also returning?
my window
1804
hey bush warbler
turn this way!
red beans and rice
1804
to every window
an off-key bush warbler
comes too
1804
in a sparse thicket
an off-key bush warbler too...
first song
1804
on the mountain
rain falling
lark singing
1804
at Sumiyoshi
lamps are burning
larks are singing
1804
a skylark sings--
a man facing
sunset
1804
singing skylark
where is this poor village's
border?
1804
even the field's
radishes are blooming...
the lark singing!
1804
the lark sings
as it flies along...
Great Japan!
1804
my home village
no longer in sight...
singing lark
1804
evening rushes in--
someone on the tideland
a lark singing
1804
evening lark
don't let the field's smoke
annoy you
1804
mingling
with the thunder--
a pheasant's cry
1804
a pigeon cries--
even deep in the Thousand Islands
it's Buddha's world
1804
celebrate the morning rain
then off you go!
rice field geese
1804
the last in line
hits the rain...
departing geese
1804
departing geese
where will you moon-gaze
tomorrow?
1804
the departing goose
stares the man
in the face
1804
are the rice field's geese
planning to fly north?
planning not to?
1804
pooping on the farmer's
umbrella-hat
the goose departs
1804
the bald mountain, too
memorize by sight!
geese flying north
1804
just one
but he goes honking...
departing goose
1804
geese taking off
have a drink on me...
Kyoto's water
1804
traveling geese--
those rice fields weren't flooded
yesterday
1804
don't go geese!
after twenty days
this is your home
1804
"My love
is at Mount Sarashina!"
the goose departs
1804
a lovely night lit
with oil lamps...
croaking frogs
1804
croaking frogs--
my first night
visiting this house
1804
the kettle's soot
in his mouth and eyes...
croaking frog
1804
spring's first frog--
another drop falls
from the twig
1804
on a hurry-scurry
butterfly day
guarding the money
1804
fresh-scooped mud
from the little ditch...
a little flitting butterfly
1804
nervously
through the raindrops...
spring butterfly
1804
riverbank--
the butterfly's bed
a kettle's bottom
1804
the mountain sunset
within my grasp...
spring butterfly
1804
a shortcut through
the temple with permission...
spring butterfly
1804
flitting butterfly
even stagnant water
a spring thing
1804
the year's first
butterfly
full of swagger
1804
blowing along
blowing along...
little butterfly
1804
blown to the window
again
little butterfly
1804
from a palanquin
at the lake, watching
spring butterflies
1804
rubbing sand from his eyes
in my hand...
little butterfly
1804
behind the man
walking along, look!
windblown butterfly
1804
getting used to
the screen weaver's hammer...
little butterfly
1804
a group of women
overtake me...
field of violets
1804
violets on the gate--
even at night
sweet nostalgia
1804
blooming violets--
some worthless grass
dug up too
1804
before me
who also lived here
with these violets?
1804
clobbered every day
by raindrops from the eaves...
camellias
1804
a tide wall
for the coast, camellias
blooming
1804
surveying also
bloody clams...
plum blossoms
1804
"Look! Plum blossoms!"
the little boat
turns around
1804
if there's a house
standing alone, sure enough...
plum blossoms
1804
precious little plum trees
in bloom...
the main road
1804
if only for a day
to have my own house!
plum blossoms
1804
behind me
laughter at my rags...
plum blossoms
1804
plum blossom scent--
for whoever shows up
a cracked teacup
1804
in plum blossoms
kettle soot won't come off...
my wrinkled hands
1804
plum in bloom--
even wood chopping
a morning scene
1804
plum blossoms--
last year's unemployed worker
from Echigo
1804
plum trees bloom
in full glory...
my broken inkstone
1804
plum blossom moon
and the rump
of a cow
1804
viewing plum blossoms
viewing blue sky...
but I'm in the sticks
1804
also rambling
over the big field...
plum blossom moon
1804
one by one they come
off-key bush warblers
to the plum blossom window
1804
has this place become
old Lo-yang?
plum blossom moon
1804
after blooming
the plum tree a neck scratcher...
for the horse
1804
the damn cedars
ripping sleeves!
plum trees in bloom
1804
a plum blossom falls
to a low place...
scar from burning wormwood
1804
the lap-baby's
first pointing...
plum blossoms
1804
not very devoted
to blooming...
plum tree at my gate
1804
a difficult feat--
in utter silence
the plum tree blooms
1804
my hut's
down-and-out plum tree
has bloomed!
1804
Mister Monkey too
wears a funny face...
plum blossoms
1804
white as a monk's
white robe...
plum blossoms
1804
are the sparrows too
having a private party?
plum blossoms
1804
soon after blooming
pelted by rain...
mountain cherry trees
1804
from where
did those blossoms float?
Sumida River
1804
eating my pickle
rind and all...
blossom shade
1804
first flowers--
boiled mountain millet
sweet nostalgia
1804
are you falling
to wash dust off blossoms
rain?
1804
in falling rain
one man remains...
blossom shade
1804
the home village
I abandoned...
mountain cherry blossoms
1804
made to wither
by the people of Edo's eyes...
cherry blossoms
1804
blown to the big river
floating away...
cherry blossoms
1804
heavy rain--
in cherry blossom shade
I stayed too long
1804
blended in
with people of Kyoto...
cherry blossoms
1804
after blooming
they're roped off...
cherry blossoms
1804
four, five, nine years
always the first to bloom...
cherry tree
1804
the holy man
leaves them behind...
cherry blossoms
1804
the first cherry tree
tall as my sleeve...
in bloom
1804
the first cherry blossoms
soon scatter and stick...
people's faces
1804
cherry blossoms--
tree after tree
of good karma
1804
an evening
of steady rainfall...
cherry blossoms
1804
again someone stands
blocking my view!
first cherry blossoms
1804
half-hidden
in the rain shower...
cherry blossoms
1804
evening falls--
in a pondless place, too
cherry blossoms scatter
1804
cherry blossoms--
whichever side I sleep on
within hand's reach
1804
Lucky the Toad, too
swaggers out...
peach blossoms
1804
green willow--
thinking of a night
of calling fireflies
1804
green willow--
soon we'll be calling
fireflies here
1804
Shiruyoshi's bell
is clanging...
willow tree
1804
all spattered
with bird poop...
the willow tree
1804
no one at home
to sleep with?
willow shade
1804
an evening spot
for calling fireflies...
planting a willow
1804
from where a fence
pens it in...
a willow
1804
three strands or so
hide in the pine...
willow tree
1804
looking at willows
and Toh Temple...
olden times return
1804
little by little
the summer night turns dawn...
people's faces
1804
summer evening--
no one notices
the wildflowers
1804
all day, all day
day after day...
June rain
1804
June rain--
in the town how long
this flute ban?
1804
June rain--
a house with no children
and growing old
1804
June rain--
postponed by Amida
till yesterday
1804
cawing crow
today will the June rains
peter out?
1804
two won't fit
in the little shrine...
June rain
1804
a pretty sleeping mat
also in view...
cloudburst
1804
rainstorm--
a one-bamboo
little vegetable patch
1804
rainstorm--
watching from a boat
Kyoto's mountain
1804
billowing clouds rise--
in the field below
rice balls
1804
on every man's face
a hungry look...
billowing clouds
1804
plunging my hand
into the lake...
billowing clouds
1804
house in the weeds--
while sperm is spent
billowing clouds
1804
patting my belly
full of worms...
billowing clouds
1804
no night water
hauled to this backstreet...
summer moon
1804
in soup kettle
and outhouse
the summer moon
1804
summer moon--
in one pat on the pillar
it's dawn
1804
all alone
is he gazing at wildflowers?
summer moon
1804
how much longer
this damn drought?
summer moon
1804
my parents' house
no longer in sight...
summer mountain
1804
summer mountain--
just when I sight Kyoto
rain!
1804
summer mountain--
a glowing
little pilgrim
1804
a man wiping
a post...
the summer mountain
1804
among tufted grasses
when the moon shines...
pure water
1804
secluded house--
no moonlight
but gushing pure water
1804
pure water gushes--
looking at tomorrow's mountain
lying down
1804
out of respect
for the wild roses...
pure water
1804
no need for two
is there?
pure water gushing
1804
in Futamori
even summer's pure water...
running late
1804
the moon shines
up to the pine...
pure water gushes
1804
gushing pure water--
Mount Asama's smoke
appears again
1804
the hated grasses
rear their heads...
green rice field
1804
hidden by trees
mother's side-field...
rice so green
1804
new summer robes--
the thicket's become
opulent
1804
new summer robes--
now I want
a pine tree!
1804
at Takasago
even for the hackberry tree...
a new summer robe
1804
in a sparse thicket, in my window
the bright moon...
new summer robes
1804
even trying on my summer kimono
lonely...
Higashi Mountains
1804
entering my ramshackle
hut you see...
a parasol
1804
the high priest
poops in the field...
parasol
1804
moonlight enters
only through the window...
paper mosquito net
1804
after trying out
the twice-fired sake...
paper fan
1804
the field's too much
for one man alone...
rustic fan
1804
the pine tree dew
dripping, dripping...
smudge pot smoke
1804
when the tree is watered
the bamboo makes do...
run-off
1804
morning glories blooming
just for me...
cool air at the gate
1804
tomorrow
Buddha will be shaved...
evening cool
1804
cooling at the gate--
morning glories have bloomed
elsewhere
1804
even cool air basking
not worth the effort...
moon at the gate
1804
a bamboo flute
Kamakura-style, rice planters
in umbrella-hats
1804
crack of dawn
already it's ready!
overnight sake
1804
overnight sake--
even the neighbor kid
comes over
1804
his face older
than the pine...
sweet jelly
1804
even living
in Katsushika...
"Cuckoo!"
1804
Sumida River
even more old-timey...
"Cuckoo!"
1804
amid the thunder's
rumble...
a reed warbler singing
1804
O reed warbler
which road is the dead end
of Kasai?
1804
hey reed warbler
which way to ancient
Naniwa?
1804
Matsushima
barely in sight...
warble of a reed warbler
1804
take a look
at the fresh-sprouted grass...
flitting firefly
1804
from branches that block
the wind...
fireflies
1804
disgraceful!
'round the red-faced drunkard
fireflies flit
1804
even the little bamboo
isn't mine...
flitting fireflies
1804
flitting fireflies--
another annoying night
in the house
1804
flit-flitting
a night of fireflies...
tea water bucket
1804
the potted plant's
one wish...
a flitting firefly
1804
a pine
no taller than a ruler...
first firefly
1804
big rain
big moon
cicada in the pine
1804
secluded house--
a hot bath
and cicadas in the pines
1804
tired of listening
the man walks away...
cicada on a branch
1804
cicadas chirr--
house in the willows
morning moon
1804
glimmer of tea water
left out overnight...
a snail
1804
viewed in passing
after summer's first bonito...
Mount Fuji
1804
summer's first bonito--
even at the mountain's edge
a taste of Edo
1804
not a trace
of sunburn shows...
peony
1804
half of it showing
in the deep grass...
peony
1804
getting sunburned
amid the grasses...
peony
1804
for the green willow
night rushes in...
lotus blossoms
1804
in a big swamp
just one bloom...
but it's a lotus!
1804
sparrows bathing
have scattered it...
lotus water
1804
lilies in bloom--
from morning on
sunset colors
1804
the melon cooling
two days now...
no one has come
1804
unexpected moonlight
shines down...
cooling melon
1804
a flitting butterfly
and green-leafed cherry tree
roped off
1804
round the lye bucket
a happy butterfly...
deep cool shade
1804
in deutzia blossoms
the priest buries
the frog
1804
deutzia blossoms--
the children play
funeral
1804
deutzia blossoms--
in the water's gleam
a croaking frog
1804
in solitude
walking on oyster shells...
deutzia in bloom
1804
autumn begins--
I thought by now this journey
would've ended
1804
from the roof's overhang
three drops...
first autumn morning
1804
a cold morning--
but the same pine tree
as last year
1804
among tufted grasses
becoming a tea lover...
morning cold
1804
the backs
of Fukagawa's houses...
morning cold
1804
the more I look at
the parasol tree...
a cold night
1804
in the morning
no sign of night's cold...
another inn
1804
facing the gate
of elder brother...
a cold night
1804
a pounding pestle
completes the scene...
a cold night
1804
the field's smoke
crawls into my sleeves...
a cold night
1804
looking at a mountain
kneeling on one knee...
a cold night
1804
autumn evening--
from elsewhere another horse
neighs in reply
1804
even the pestle
becomes part of the scene...
a long night
1804
every time I go out
the horse neighs...
a long night
1804
Tone River's
farewell to autumn...
bright moon
1804
cawing in the tree
are you a widow, crow?
Milky Way above
1804
shaded by thicket--
the moon breaks through...
my house
1804
harvest moon--
and later a field
of tufted grass
1804
harvest moon
on a clear, rainless night
elsewhere!
1804
harvest moon--
people on the stone
with pale faces
1804
harvest moon--
all the same faces
as last year
1804
harvest moon--
even in Kyoto
growing old
1804
watching the bridge
as evening falls...
autumn sky
1804
autumn rain--
not a soul in sight
the back gate
1804
autumn rain--
he's just like me
the snail
1804
autumn rain--
for a lonely pine
day's end
1804
the sold pony
looks back at mother...
autumn rain
1804
a song from Echigo
in the storehouse...
autumn rain
1804
in Katsushika
falling in the distance...
autumn rain
1804
all night looking
at my wrinkled hands...
autumn rain
1804
mountain village--
a rainy autumn evening's
long walk
1804
autumn wind--
a hand-dyed, handspun
little kimono
1804
autumn wind--
even for a monkey without tricks
the dawn
1804
autumn wind--
a beggar looking
sizes me up
1804
autumn wind--
the cicadas' grumbling
is louder
1804
does this autumn wind
come from the Mountain
of Swords?
1804
autumn wind--
on my pilgrimage
to which hell?
1804
blowing under
the loom's rod sleeves...
autumn wind
1804
entering a land
where the old are discarded...
autumn wind
1804
the little pine
puts on a show...
autumn wind
1804
arms exposed
but not in hot tubs...
autumn wind
1804
next to the fence
a foot-washing tub...
autumn gale
1804
bit by bit
trimming the horse's hooves...
autumn gale
1804
festival at the mountain's foot--
in the cauldron
an autumn gale
1804
popping a bubble
of morning dew...
a ghost
1804
amid dewdrops
it triggers nostalgia...
hackberry tree
1804
dewdrops form--
I spend this year's O-Bon
in Kazusa's mountains
1804
in earthenware
an offering of chestnuts...
dewy grass
1804
not apologizing
to the country's father...
evening dew
1804
travelers set out
as the sun rises...
morning dew
1804
travelers set out
in familiar grass...
autumn dew
1804
autumn fog--
the river beach's pinks
barely visible
1804
when the fog clears
a mountain...
of fire chips
1804
from a hand that holds
a bucket of sacred branches...
fog rises
1804
from a hand
pricked by sacred branches...
fog rises
1804
even at a house
shrouded in mountain fog...
a festival
1804
behind my sweetheart's
house a field...
of flowers
1804
tiny sandals
made of red paper...
for the ancestor
1804
when the bell tolls
for the ancestors...
dewdrops scatter
1804
the Bon Festival
flickers out too...
lanterns for the dead
1804
evening wind--
for the tree-less gate
a tall Bon lantern
1804
someone else's affair
you think...
lanterns for the dead
1804
right alongside
Adashi Field's fires...
Bon Festival dance
1804
becoming crooked
down a backstreet...
Bon Festival dance
1804
evening Bon dance--
dust from Asama's eruption
twenty years old
1804
evening Bon dance--
this pine tree saw
the Osaka Siege
1804
evening Bon dancers
flee the rain...
hackberry by the gate
1804
up to last year
his Bon dancing clogs...
moon at the gate
1804
trying to sleep
now the noise is annoying...
Bon Festival dance
1804
two people
in a town no one visits...
Bon Festival dance
1804
an isolated house
in mountain shade
but a festival dance!
1804
mountain village--
the old man doesn't know
the dance
1804
Tanabata Night
in Kyoto, the same
autumn mountain
1804
world of man--
in a mountain nook too
Tanabata stars
1804
sky over Kazusa--
is my star up there
prowling?
1804
Muen Temple's bell
clangs too...
great fireworks
1804
autumn sumo tournament--
from day one
mountain clouds
1804
heading straight
to the wildflowers...
sumo wrestler
1804
making the crane
feel lonely...
the scarecrow
1804
was there ever
an older looking scarecrow?
Sumida River
1804
in the outcastes' village too
a lovely night...
pounding cloth
1804
evening cloth-pounding--
a cycad tree wrapped
in a reed mat
1804
even the bald mountain
isn't left out...
evening cloth-pounding
1804
a sakaki tree planted
for good luck...
cloth-pounding
1804
for the pine sapling too
a windy night...
new sake
1804
young buck--
when he starts to make love
mountain rain
1804
his dying place
fairly well thatched...
crying deer
1804
sing, quail!
if my hut bothers you
I'll close it
1804
the man I'm meeting
just now...
scares a snipe
1804
a snipe calls--
the crane on his usual
pine tree hill
1804
all people must
grow old...
the snipe rises
1804
the princess pine
so fancy...
a snipe flies up
1804
not exactly
well hidden...
rice field goose
1804
rice field geese
with moon above...
I want a hut here!
1804
also lent
to the geese and ducks...
vegetable patch
1804
even ducks and geese
with samurai faces...
natives of Kasai
1804
geese and ducks--
all night wishing for
a rice field
1804
will I grow old
like you?
autumn butterfly
1804
don't be bewildered
by the cold weather!
dragonfly
1804
dragonfly--
flying two feet
then two feet more
1804
the katydid next door
clear
as a bell
1804
that grass over there
won't be cut...
katydid
1804
a burned field
but soon he's singing...
katydid
1804
evening moon--
surviving the flood
a katydid
1804
in the rain gutter too
wildflowers
have sprouted
1804
lasting five, six days
at the gate...
wildflower
1804
fish frolicking
on foot...
chrysanthemums
1804
in the mum garden
sprouting all at once...
weeds
1804
even in the thicket
beyond the bramble gate
a little chrysanthemum
1804
a splash for the white
chrysanthemum...
hand-wash water
1804
chrysanthemums bloom
with ease...
river's edge
1804
in poor soil
little by little it blooms...
chrysanthemum
1804
a standing priest
a standing crane...
field chrysanthemums
1804
morning glories--
amid the mosquitos
standing tall
1804
red-leaf ivy--
lipstick is applied
to the eaves
1804
the petite ivy
not to be outdone
turns red
1804
no stink this evening
in the temple...
blooming bush clover
1804
loosestrife--
if soaked in water
wind will blow
1804
little by little
scrawny cock's combs bloom...
in moonlight
1804
the Shinano road
through blooming buckwheat...
a swath of cloth
1804
buckwheat blossoms
enough for the Buddha
and me
1804
buckwheat
in front of two houses...
in bloom
1804
very soon
it's hot springs time...
buckwheat blooming
1804
on a barren mountain
it bloomed in a flash
buckwheat
1804
rice dries on racks--
all night the little thicket
lit by the moon
1804
the rice thresher's
extra partner...
a duck
1804
the woodpecker too
engulfed in sunset...
red leaves
1804
to stop at that point
is just fine...
pale red leaves
1804
first red leaves--
the view blocked
by hackberry trees
1804
the birds have left
the chopped down pine...
evening's red leaves
1804
following the man
who shoulders a winnow...
red leaves
1804
once again
wet those red leaves...
today's rain
1804
acting fidgety
in the flood...
roses of Sharon
1804
outside of sleeping
lacking good sense...
rose of Sharon
1804
an unlevel hedge, too
in bloom...
roses of Sharon
1804
three drops of rain
and it's drenched...
the gourd
1804
with light hearts
the grasses bloom...
gourds
1804
the bird flies off
making a mental note...
the big gourd
1804
in the gloom of night
bit by bit it grows...
the gourd
1804
at the gate
looking at berries...
Kiso cloudburst!
1804
how annoying
to walk this mountain
pelted by berries
1804
falling berries--
is my red loincloth
happy now?
1804
how many days
staining my toes?
berries
1804
did others sit here too
waiting for spring?
old tatami mat
1804
a good dream
for the year's end?
lacquered pillow
1804
my sleeping place
just thatched yesterday...
first winter rain
1804
my very first night
sleeping here...
winter rain on bamboo
1804
in winter wind
no one to talk to...
evening
1804
in winter wind
in three-foot wide lodgings...
my night
1804
the winter wind
stops blowing...
people like pigeons
1804
winter wind--
in a little ditch smoke
and bamboo tongs
1804
winter wind--
in the konjac jelly
stars and moon
1804
winter wind--
a street singer at dusk
hunkers to the ground
1804
in first snowfall
though slurping only hot water...
my home
1804
first snowfall--
tomorrow's smoke one
bundle of straw
1804
first snowfall--
in the bamboo evening
sleeping alone
1804
first snow--
my home village through a hole
in the wall
1804
"I too await
snowy nights!"
chipped earthen pot
1804
in falling snow
with a pang of guilt...
I stay in bed
1804
on a snowy day
ignorant of history...
a sparrow
1804
thicket's chrysanthemum
on a day of hailstorm...
blooms
1804
heavy frost
on the old house, its owner
in the ground
1804
adding to
my solitude...
frost on the window
1804
rain on withered fields
resounds...
my pillow
1804
withering fields--
oh for a bite to eat
in my hut!
1804
safe and sound
on Basho's Death-Day...
chrysanthemum
1804
leaving Kyoto
I hear it again...
monks beating bowls
1804
in western mountains
a bush warbler already?
a monk beats his bowl
1804
a monk beats his bowl--
by now a dent
in the mountain!
1804
stocking up
for my winter seclusion...
a treasured strand of ivy
1804
shining moon--
the year's end fair
on Mount Matsuchi
1804
year's end fair
"What's he doing here?"
they ask
1804
at my home
the flies too, a year older...
seacoast
1804
winter seclusion--
all night the sound
of mountain rain
1804
for a man who climbed
over my fence...
a wooden brazier
1804
empty charcoal bag--
in the mud so quickly
trampled
1804
wood fire--
oh happy age!
on every face
1804
under tall oaks
in the mountain's shade
pufferfish soup
1804
fighting the mountain wind
on foot...
a wren
1804
little wren
despite your cheeping
the day ends
1804
breaking out in song
at the evening rain...
wren
1804
a plover lives
in one of my walls...
evening
1804
"This evening in the wheat field
so pretty!"
sings the plover
1804
"The field of wheat
so spring-like!"
sings the plover
1804
with a pufferfish
in the middle of Kyoto...
he passes
1804
on raised ground
they start sticking to shoes...
fallen leaves
1804
my soup stock
is growing splendidly...
falling leaves
1804
did you break your fall
with roses of Sharon?
tree leaves
1804
a strange evening
for falling leaves...
pigeon feed
1804
an oak leaf this morning
fallen
in the tofu tank
1804
the garden's chrysanthemum
blooms at great pains...
fallen leaves
1804
flitting down
to hang on roses of Sharon...
tree leaves
1804
at dawn a keepsake
left on the window
red leaves
1804
the garden looking
freshly plowed...
fallen red leaves
1804
who might be living
downriver?
red leaves fall
1804
into the lake shoreman's
winnowing basket...
red leaves fall
1804
red leaves fall--
just to be swept away
tomorrow?
1804
red leaves fall--
even in a waterless place
a moonlit night
1804
a barrier built
for the winter mums...
plum tree
1804
winter chrysanthemum--
in the nape
of the mill-carver's neck
1805
a new year begins--
before sunrise
a pine-decorated boat
1805
it's become
a First Month scene...
snow on the mud
1805
birds singing--
for an old farmer on a mat, too
happy New Year
1805
my spring--
one charcoal ball
and a bundle of greens
1805
a cracked kettle
and the rising sun...
this too is spring
1805
spring's first day
turns moonlit night...
my wrinkled face
1805
spring's beginning
and bright moon are elsewhere...
my hut
1805
the offbeat clomping
of clogs...
must be spring!
1805
spring begins--
even for a gate
without grass
1805
spring comes too
to the weed-thatched hut...
evening rain
1805
into the New Year's bonfire--
lucky calligraphy
harmony" and "ease
1805
into the New Year's bonfire--
lucky calligraphy
harmony" and "ease
1805
two houses, three, four...
an evening
of kites
1805
a kite--
Mokubo Temple settles
into evening
1805
mountain shade--
deep in a thicket
a kite
1805
on this misty day
sleeping through New Year's?
mountain home
1805
one bucketful
for Buddha...
morning herbs
1805
in a field looking sideways
at evening's sky...
New Year's herb picker
1805
picking herbs
the heron also
seems lonely
1805
herb garden--
picking one, he shouts
"Over here!"
1805
a broken lock
calls to people...
seaside herb garden
1805
the earth mound's
part of it indeed...
a fine spring day
1805
the trash on the bridge
washed away...
a spring day
1805
even from the gable
clear blue sky...
a spring day
1805
exposing my spine
to the spring sun...
this year
1805
on the spring day
all day, rain...
Kyoto
1805
spring day--
visible even after sunset
Higashi Mountains
1805
alder trees
little by little blooming...
a spring day
1805
mountains and river
on this spring day...
needlework
1805
getting dark later--
the bean goose
clacks his beak
1805
long spring days
and yet...
in the sticks
1805
grating on sand
the big ferryboat...
late sunset
1805
little by little
my scrawny vegetables bloom...
a long spring day
1805
in falling rain
in Kyoto too
dusk of spring
1805
for the painted faced
maiden too...
spring dusk
1805
counting the windows
of Shimogyo Town...
spring dusk
1805
my sedge umbrella-hat
isn't fluffy...
spring dusk
1805
for the wisteria in the pine, too
spring's dusk
this evening
1805
the horned owl
makes a face...
spring dusk
1805
spring evening--
in a village lacking nothing
plum blossom scent
1805
water spider
on spring's last day
blushing
1805
Yoshino's spring--
just one more night
left
1805
road to Nara--
a crow caws
at spring's last day
1805
rice field crane
again, come on down!
spring rain
1805
the Black Gate
just half visible...
spring rain
1805
spring rain--
ducks waddle-waddle
to the gate
1805
spring rain--
Edo's citizens are used to it
at Kanei Temple
1805
spring rain--
to the dinner tray's edge
the tea grove
1805
spring rain--
the morning moon
in a clam shell
1805
pine trees too
grow dark a bit early...
spring rain
1805
the spring breeze
blows in darkness too...
house on the shore
1805
spring breeze--
the clay doll
gets some color
1805
on the tip of the pole
the tea strainer dries...
spring breeze
1805
shallow river--
on hands rinsing a kettle
spring moon
1805
spring moon--
if I touched it
it would drip
1805
the spring moon
in a raindrop from the eaves...
falls again
1805
even at dawn
spring haze hovers...
Sumida River
1805
green moss--
all the way to my lap
spring's rainbow
1805
grilling sardines
in a mountain field...
thin mist
1805
thin mist--
night after night
vegetable soup
1805
at the back window
the same person...
mist
1805
the misty day, too
viewed out back...
my humble hut
1805
misty day--
in evening mountain's shadow
candyman's flute
1805
peeking in, peeking out
of the mist...
Mount Tsukuba
1805
the thieving crow
strikes again...
helped by spring mist
1805
the post is wiped
all clean...
spring mist
1805
even my sleeve
is one with the mist...
evening
1805
standing deep inside
the heat shimmers...
weeds
1805
heat shimmers--
traces of a dear friend's
walking stick
1805
heat shimmers--
umbrella-hat's handprints too
a sign of spring
1805
moonlight halos
the house...
spring water
1805
blades of grass
are plucked for their sake...
equinox dumplings
1805
even in mountain shade
is it Peach Day?
sugar vendor
1805
come, monkey!
come, Peach Boy!
herb cakes
1805
even at my home
herbs for cake turn green...
evening
1805
the herb picker
reaches...
for the setting sun
1805
where I saw
a pretty bird...
they burn the mountain
1805
another mountain
set on fire...
the haze thickens
1805
dead grass burning--
on my eyebrows pattering
evening rain
1805
sowing herbs--
the smell of fish cooking
a little past noon
1805
looking for a wife
he's become respectable...
stray cat
1805
the stray cat too
goes wife-hunting...
nightfall
1805
even the wild cat
looks for sex...
peeking in the gate
1805
wild cat--
after making love
he's the town pet
1805
no break for the bird's nest
to dry...
mountain rain
1805
from night onward
rain...
birds who've left the nest
1805
human goblins live
in hills and fields!
bird leaving the nest
1805
Asakusa--
on the day the swallows fly
rented clogs
1805
blades of grass
swish in the tide...
a swallow flies
1805
blades of grass--
swallows start arriving
prettily
1805
high tide
and a happy morning...
swallows flying
1805
a swallow--
not at all bothered
by my smoke
1805
the swallows, too
avoid it this year...
patch of weeds
1805
a happy night
among tufted grasses...
a pheasant cries
1805
a pheasant cries--
yesterday it wasn't there
mountain field
1805
a pheasant cries--
bedded down in tall grass
a horse's face!
1805
poking his face
into the haystack...
a pheasant cries
1805
is it hard leaving behind
the flowering mustard?
rice field geese
1805
celebrating the rain
in tufted grasses...
croaking frogs
1805
sunset--
tears shine in a frog's eyes
too
1805
on one knee
in moonlight...
a frog
1805
looks almost
like frogs hopping!
rain on the grass
1805
in grassy shade
such rude grumbling...
a frog
1805
in grassy shade
what's that grumbling?
evening frog
1805
frogs singing--
"Tonight let the weeds
grow taller!"
1805
in leafy shade
deciding not to croak...
a frog
1805
even in a sparse thicket
"This is our night!"
croak the frogs
1805
in the waste threads
yesterday's dewdrops...
spring butterfly
1805
devotedly stuck
to the reed mat...
little butterfly
1805
clinging to
the pestle's trough...
little butterfly
1805
a butterfly flits--
two houses with piss-poor
gardens
1805
flitting butterfly--
after dinner, a temple
pilgrimage
1805
a flitting butterfly
outstrips me...
paper sandals
1805
birds singing
butterflies flitting...
old tatami mat
1805
even when planting
two or three eggplants...
little butterflies
1805
now on, now off
the hair cord maker...
little butterfly
1805
at Machiguchi
night falls so fast...
little butterfly
1805
a little person
enters the scene...
a little butterfly
1805
my hut
the butterfly's sleeping place
tonight
1805
for two or three days
its pure fun...
for silkworms
1805
a sickle moon--
hands groping
for pond snails
1805
even the clams
are related to the great
men of old
1805
parsley pickers--
don't let the crane
think you're clumsy!
1805
one more dawn
for the flowering mustard...
Yoshino Hill
1805
the rain cleared
recently, I see...
dripping bracken
1805
I wonder who picked
all this?
skinny bracken
1805
eyes wide for
a tree that turns to gold...
outcaste home
1805
giving Holy Binzuru
a rub...
the budding tree
1805
my hut's camellias--
not a shoddy one
among them
1805
a calf's face
stretches forward...
camellias
1805
I'll put on shell-sandals
too!
village plum blossoms
1805
plum blossoms--
the sound of a three-penny
flute
1805
plum blossoms--
in a mountain nook
somebody's house
1805
plum blossoms scatter
in the sky, nine a.m.
to one p.m.
1805
unconquered
by the smell of broiled eels...
plum blossoms
1805
my kimono cuffs
are last year's rags...
plum blossoms
1805
through the garden's fallen
plum blossoms, footprints...
he was big!
1805
my hem dragging
through dirt...
plum blossoms
1805
while I slept--
night unfurled all kinds
of plum blossoms
1805
catching its breath
on the pine tree's root...
plum blossom
1805
plum blossoms--
they've come to see Edo
child tourists
1805
plum blossoms--
in a metal tub
a sickle moon
1805
even the hot water vendor
lingers...
blossoming mountain
1805
not giving a damn
that cherry blossoms fall...
his stern face
1805
in scattering blossoms
I've lived too long...
evening
1805
cherry blossoms scatter--
the earthenware Saigyo
looks merry
1805
bloom, cherry trees!
Izen's snoring
may stop
1805
rain on blossoms--
under a hemp tarp
his stern face
1805
blossoming mountain--
the little food shop
lost in mist
1805
from behind me
they blow...cherry blossoms!
cherry blossoms!
1805
feeding the whole
neighborhood...
cherry blossoms
1805
though my rice sack
is empty...
cherry blossoms!
1805
cherry blossoms
on the spring mountain...
another hot water?
1805
it's how the village
makes a living...
cherry trees in bloom
1805
peach blossoms--
at the gate he weighs
the cat
1805
green willow--
jointly owned by neighbors
a tea-drinking bridge
1805
dawn's glow
even more of a wonder...
willow tree
1805
waiting and waiting
for sunset...
the willow tree
1805
a willow stands
at the entrance gate...
Kyoto
1805
annoyingly
it hides one wall...
willow
1805
willow tree graft--
tomorrow you leave
the hut
1805
the earth-dyed cotton
looking happy too...
willow tree
1805
in sweltering heat
slayed by sunshine...
my head
1805
summer night--
the disdained gate's
wildflowers
1805
summer evening--
at the thatched hut
of a clever man
1805
holy hermit--
in early dawn walking
to a village
1805
crushed
under the June rain...
my home
1805
in June rain too
just one helping...
thatched hut
1805
for my empty belly
the wind blows...
billowing clouds
1805
billowing clouds
on the move...
before my umbrella-hat
1805
tufted grasses--
in summer moonlight, distant
cloth-pounding
1805
the bush warbler
sings too...
pure water over moss
1805
chilled amid the green
rice field...
back into the hot tub
1805
barnyard grass too
rustles, rustles...
like the green rice field
1805
a happy sight--
on purification evening
the Milky Way
1805
evening purification--
a splash of water on bamboo
will do
1805
life alone--
when I die may the bamboo
blinds be green
1805
after re-papering
the first thing I fan...
weeds
1805
with my wastepaper fan
striking poses...
alone
1805
evening shadows--
rain pitter-patters
on my fan
1805
all the bought water
is for the bamboo...
evening
1805
my nose
to a wooden fence...
cool air
1805
every evening
at the canal's edge...
evening cool
1805
evening cool--
the toad who comes out
I call "Lucky"
1805
this falling rain
feels like last year...
"Cuckoo!"
1805
answering the blast
of the conch...
mountain cuckoo
1805
in grass, in trees
the army of the Genji...
fireflies flit
1805
a rain sprinkle...they're off
to Matsura Lagoon!
fireflies
1805
every evening
even in the dirty bamboo...
fireflies
1805
waking up, look!
that fly still hasn't left
facing Mount Fuji
1805
the flies you have
came earlier
from other flies
1805
on the moonlit spider web
an evening
cicada
1805
cicada chorus--
for the butterfly too
no sunburn
1805
a cicada chirrs--
covering the pears
a paper bag
1805
does the red dawn
delight you...
snail?
1805
snail--
the butterfly in a mad
hurry
1805
bindweed flowers
along with the hay...
clipped
1805
lotus blossom--
a dragon once rode you
people say
1805
dusting off
my ankles...
irises blooming
1805
the sunlight behind
is irritating...
blooming irises
1805
while looking at them
sunlight hits...
blooming irises
1805
the melon
can't sink completely...
the well
1805
Kamo River--
after soaking a melon
the moon sets
1805
a hedge where no priests
enter...
deutzia in bloom
1805
a person-shaped
hole beckons...
deutzia blossoms
1805
little morning glories
big morning glories...
it's Ninth Month!
1805
a house with baking pan
pushed aside...
autumn cold
1805
so cold in morning's cold--
vegetable vendor
winnow vendor
1805
morning cold--
a bucket of pickled plums
ready for travel
1805
morning cold--
the toad's eyes too
open wide
1805
green willow at the gate
rustling...
a cold night
1805
a smart man
amuses himself...
a cold night
1805
even the replanted
melon blooms...
a cold night
1805
dawn is your time
for dancing...
hackberry tree
1805
even tortoise and crane
meet their fate...
autumn evening
1805
are you regretting
Matsubara's autumn's end?
clamoring cranes
1805
Katsushika--
a moonlit house
by a sewer
1805
the village fires
burn anciently...
a moonlit night
1805
going out
to get soup stock...
bright moon
1805
on Musashi Plain
complementing a house...
autumn moon
1805
Musashi Plain--
over the dog's toilet too
a bright moon
1805
mountain moon--
father pulls the bell rope
his child prays
1805
almost a harvest moon
burning pine needles...
Saga Field
1805
in some sky
rain isn't falling...
harvest moon night
1805
rain wrecks two
harvest moon nights...
Sumida River
1805
rain falling, too
on Sumida's river beach...
harvest moon night
1805
after renting the house
the first thing: moon-gazing
twice
1805
after renting the house
moon-gazing there...
twice
1805
a big rain--
on the moon-gazing boat
watching it fall
1805
tonight's moon--
I, too, am staying
in Musashi!
1805
harvest moon night--
did someone pray
for this rain?
1805
harvest moon
but a mist-wrapped house...
my life
1805
on both harvest
moon nights, rain...
Sumida River
1805
on both harvest
moon nights, rain?
Sumida River
1805
harvest moon--
for the rice field
Mimeguri's rain
1805
no moon-gazing
this stormy night...
this year
1805
growing old--
even while moon-gazing
praising Buddha!
1805
on Musashi Plain
met a second time...
harvest moon
1805
not caring about
a harvest shining above...
thatched hut
1805
until the harvest
moon's second appearance...
my humble hut
1805
harvest moon
number two too...
dripping eaves
1805
rain hanging on
hanging on...
no harvest moon
1805
Ninth Month moon--
in the mountain's shade
a food festival
1805
rain, rain!
on harvest moon night
of course
1805
the mountain's blooming
buckwheat hides it...
Ninth Month moon
1805
no fear
of autumn rain's downpour...
mountainside house
1805
he rakes pine needles
for tomorrow's tea, perhaps...
autumn rain
1805
the deer stands close
to the husk bucket...
autumn rain
1805
the cut grass
sticks to my feet...
autumn rain
1805
today too
autumn rain...
mountainside house
1805
mountain field--
pigeons cooing
in autumn rain
1805
in autumn wind
trusting in the Buddha...
little butterfly
1805
blow, autumn wind!
my little pine
won't grow bigger
1805
an autumn wind's
blowing! blowing! night...
open window
1805
autumn wind--
without even a house
the "big man"
1805
autumn wind--
topping the grasses
someone's face
1805
in autumn wind
its life divinely protected...
mosquito
1805
reaching the face
of Buddha in his niche...
autumn wind
1805
out the back door
quickly grown dark...
autumn wind
1805
water splashed
on the stone, on the tree...
autumn wind
1805
each time I look
autumn wind is blowing...
Edo's sky
1805
going out in autumn
on just three legs...
evening dew
1805
so restless
people also lack trust...
evening dew
1805
the morning fog
tangled
in the willow
1805
over the thicket
a custom-made cloud...
evening fog
1805
autumn mountain--
is he banging that gong
because he's alive?
1805
autumn mountains
one by one
the evening falls
1805
at my feet
sunset's rays, autumn
mountain
1805
bird sings again
bell tolls again...
autumn mountain
1805
in people's faces
the same darkness...
autumn mountain
1805
up to my doorway
the autumn field blooms...
rainy day
1805
at my ramshackle hut, too
night is cool...
lanterns for the dead
1805
almost cold
drenched in grass...
lanterns for the dead
1805
the pine breeze too
blows carefully...
lanterns for the dead
1805
at sunset
alone on the main road...
Bon Festival dance
1805
at the hermit's hut, too--
an upturned face awaits
the stars
1805
awaiting the stars--
even a turtle cools
his behind
1805
lined up perfectly
with the pine...
Herder Star
1805
a rush of red leaves
blown against him...
scarecrow
1805
one by one
the frigid gusts...
bird clapper
1805
Mount Asa--
even when cloth-pounding stops
sweet nostalgia
1805
new house--
here too, three or four
cloth-pounders
1805
rising smoke
towering pine, then...
cloth-pounding
1805
the owl comes
to lend a hand...
cloth-pounding
1805
Mutsu province--
even in a haunted field
pounding cloth
1805
parched rice--
even at a house without kids
a holiday
1805
I leave my chrysanthemum
for the evening...
fresh-brewed sake
1805
a suitable pine
for the Day of the Rat...
new sake
1805
autumn in Sarashina--
mostly
rainy nights
1805
high tide--
splish-splash
goes the buck
1805
the young buck
tries to hide
in bush clover
1805
do you think you're hiding
in that bush clover?
face of a deer
1805
this mountain rain
and the deer's tears
must be mingling
1805
only after the woodpecker
flies...
back in my hut
1805
the woodpecker returns
to the pine...
now I'm old
1805
the woodpecker works
one spot...
all through sunset
1805
the woodpecker
pecks it to death...
the post
1805
Asazawa Marsh--
when a snipe calls
the grass drips
1805
seeing the horse
and the spear
a hidden snipe flies
1805
a snipe flies up--
the horse in the field
yawns
1805
a war lord--
dragged behind a snipe
flying away
1805
honking geese--
I picture skies
over inns
1805
just today and tomorrow
left of autumn!
rice field geese
1805
an insect chirps--
yesterday it wasn't there
hole in the wall
1805
cricket--
you too have adapted to life
in Edo
1805
katydid--
"katy-katy!" not dead
yet
1805
not a thicket
for a katydid's singing
in sight
1805
even in the barn's shade
if there's grass
there's autumn blooms
1805
all for Buddha
in the sky...
wildflowers
1805
blocking the gate--
morning glories
and a slob
1805
into morning glories
with one shoulder bare...
holy man
1805
morning glories
and loads of children...
farmhouse
1805
lost
in the morning glories
little house
1805
droplets forming
on the morning glories...
sitting still
1805
in morning glories
a chill chilling
my spine
1805
in the morning glories
warming up...
the cold
1805
morning glories
even in sewer mud
a morning scene
1805
selling morning glories
wet with morning dew...
a tough character
1805
voice of the bell--
the morning glories are the first
to stir
1805
on the busy gate, too
morning glories
bloom
1805
my house's pitiful
morning glories, too
greet the dawn
1805
trickling down
morning's tea dregs...
ivy in the window
1805
even the poor ivy
at my place...
turning red
1805
rain falling--
the moon in two days
bush clover tomorrow
1805
among ears of rice
dog stalks too...
sunrise
1805
rice ears hanging
for good luck...
hackberry tree
1805
ears of rice--
a Suma crane flies
in the window
1805
wind blows
in a wet-colored sky...
harvesting rice
1805
it's become
a rice-husk autumn...
rain-drenched grass
1805
on one branch
tumbling head over heels...
autumn colors
1805
leaves turning red--
the village shrine priest
goes forth
1805
mountain field--
the mouse's hole too
under red leaves
1805
enough leftover cotton
to make pajamas...
blowing in the wind
1805
as expected this evening--
willow leaves
begin to fall
1805
low cloud--
night after night
willow leaves fall
1805
in autumn frost
lushly blooming again
roses of Sharon
1805
they crowd to bloom
facing the sea...
roses of Sharon
1805
late-blooming roses of Sharon
four or five...
mosquitos whine
1805
a babbling brook
chills the sake...
roses of Sharon
1805
"For roses of Sharon too
the season of withering..."
whines a mosquito
1805
roses of Sharon
on peaks, in valleys
all the way to Takaya
1805
even the willow
is lonely...
rose of Sharon
1805
night after night
a good wind blows...
roses of Sharon
1805
the moon emerges
'round a curve...
the gourd
1805
all the mountains
are looking old...
gourds
1805
winter night--
received yesterday
a Harima kettle
1805
winter night--
a garden hill too
casts its shadow
1805
cold winter poop
on the pine tree...
evening rain
1805
with the emptiness
of bare trees...
this year ends
1805
for me and the pine
this year of suffering
finally ends
1805
mouth open
as if waiting for spring...
paper maché dog
1805
waiting for spring
sparrows also make a home
in the bamboo
1805
year's end--
the bell of my death place
tolls too
1805
year's end--
when will my turn come
temple bell?
1805
bamboo thicket--
on the year's last day, too
evening rain
1805
first snowfall--
the crows of Kasai
happily caw
1805
lying in bed
with my death stipend rice...
snowy evening
1805
just being here
just being...
snow flitting down
1805
the ban on music
is lifted...
evening snow
1805
climb old China's
Mount Hua...
snow on umbrella-hat
1805
snow falling--
extra plaster
for the little window
1805
falling snow
around the lone pine
twisting
1805
snowy night--
to my half-portion of rice
adding a plum
1805
snow falling--
every place
where people are
1805
night snow--
in a hush people
passing
1805
hurry along!
in nighttime hail
on wooden clogs
1805
expecting an evening
of spring...
evening frost
1805
Basho's Death Day--
at a place famous
for konjac jelly
1805
village festival--
even for the blacksmith
in the trees
1805
even in Edo
cleaning out the hearth...
all alone
1805
harvest moon--
the pine tree's head too
swept for soot
1805
pine breeze--
in the middle of a field too
Twelfth Month singers
1805
pounding rice cakes
gliding into evening...
Sumida River
1805
pounding rice cakes--
the gate is the sparrows'
playground
1805
pounding rice cakes--
the holy man's goose, too
alive and well
1805
at night a sound
like rice cake pounding...
the hackberry tree
1805
at my gate
the usual evening rain...
pounding rice cakes
1805
come, come, snow!
the young pine needs
new clothes
1805
a Pure Land temple's
bell of old age...
listen!
1805
falconry--
a wheat field's rising sun
on one sleeve
1805
winter manure hanging
in the pine...
evening rain
1805
along the road--
enough cotton gathered
to pad my robe
1805
plain, light-blue
skullcaps...
sprinkled in
1805
going to bed
my chrysanthemum sleeps too...
wooden brazier
1805
a sparrow too
my sunset bosom buddy...
wooden brazier
1805
charcoal-smashing hands--
so lonely
so frail
1805
charcoal fire--
my old tatami mat
evening's eyesore
1805
in a flash my home's
dressed to the nines...
morning's charcoal fire
1805
every evening
you're also more depleted...
charcoal bag
1805
rain falling--
tomorrow's chance of firewood
is nil
1805
eating up
the Bay of Waka...
wood fire
1805
by the wood fire
comparing our wrinkles...
Mount Kagami
1805
banked fire--
gulls clamor
in the redbud tree
1805
my banked fire
not lasting long enough...
evening
1805
banked fire--
the mountain pine wind
at my pillow
1805
old Tone--
a wild duck-quacking night
sake flavor
1805
"A famous site
for boiled tofu!"
quack the ducks
1805
with eyes
like a citizen of Edo...
pufferfish
1805
big pufferfish--
facing Mount Fuji
mouth open wide
1805
descending the mountain--
a pufferfish face
claps against him
1805
the door lock
also looks rusty...
falling leaves
1805
when the deer cries
the red leaves too
fall like tears
1805
falling red leaves
not quite enough...
paddy field
1805
in a shallow marsh
feeding a turtle...
winter withering
1805
Shimogyo Town--
the sound of pulping paper
and winter withering
1805
moonlight! shadow!
even en route to Yoshiwara
winter's withering
1805
a man's shadow--
even on St. Jizo's monument
winter withering
1805
winter withering--
sheer boredom
in the mountain home
1805
winter withering--
a signboard for rice cakes
dried and cracked
1805
even for winter's withering
an indifferent face...
sea gull
1805
winter withering--
departing from mother
the pony's face
1805
winter withering--
the sound of pulping paper
completes the evening
1805
winter withering--
a deer looking at
the bucket of beans
1805
celebrate the dawn
too, cricket...
winter plum tree
1805
honorable cherry
and plum blossoms...
moon in the pine
1805
me and the pine--
how much more suffering
for old relics?
1805
rainy thicket--
the god of the poor
must be here
1806
another year
just taking up space...
thatched hut
1806
spring peace--
no plum blossoms yet
this First Month
1806
even my house
is all decked out...
the emperor's spring
1806
does the spoonbill too
hear the begging actors?
"Happy New Year!"
1806
Great Japan!
with your dinner trays
spring blossoms
1806
sleeping through
the New Year's celebration...
mountain home
1806
little well--
seaside herbs mirrored
in its water
1806
on Aimochi Bridge
spring has sprung...
bright moon
1806
little by little
a few trees blooming...
it's springtime!
1806
rain from the eaves
drip-drip...
a late sunset
1806
spring evening--
the boistruous racket
dies down
1806
while examining
a millstone's hoop...
spring has ended
1806
forest ranger--
he sweeps away spring
with a broom
1806
departing spring's
sky turns dark...
mountain pass
1806
so very thin
over morning pickles...
spring frost
1806
wild geese honking
"Let tonight be the end
of the frost!"
1806
down to two leaves
the lonely morning glory...
spring frost
1806
shelter amid tufted grasses--
every time I turn over
spring rain
1806
a little sparrow
chirps in his sleep...
spring rain
1806
not missing
the spring rain's blessing...
blades of grass
1806
spring rain too
comes in sideways...
seacoast
1806
spring rain
on an ancient road...
the pickle vendor
1806
spring rain--
there's one window
per person
1806
even the priceless
garden stone, sick of it...
spring rain
1806
through a window big
as an umbrella-hat...
spring breeze
1806
spring breeze--
the mop on the fence
drying
1806
spring breeze--
let the grass also
drink sake!
1806
temple mountain--
under a spring moon heading
to a poem party
1806
every evening
in raindrops from the eaves...
spring moon
1806
bit by bit
more haze, more moon...
secluded temple
1806
in the misty day
no window can be seen...
a prison
1806
misty day--
grasses at the gate
at noon
1806
on one sleeve
rain pitter-patters...
spring mist
1806
a vegetable patch
of fat little sparrows too...
in the mist
1806
spring mist--
not taking up a hoe
a shameless loafer
1806
Musashi Plain--
our dwelling too
in mist
1806
veiling the mountain
village's sleeping face...
mist
1806
heat shimmers--
the mosquito-breeding thicket
is pretty too
1806
in my sweetheart's house
not one provincial doll
on Doll's Day
1806
my home village--
even the doll's face
made of weeds
1806
their colorful umbrellas
fluttering...
low tide
1806
plowing the rice field
dewdrops fall too...
entrance gate
1806
plowing fields--
festivals, festivals
all over!
1806
back road--
even on top of grasses
sowing herbs
1806
mountain field--
"Nice job of seeding!"
sing the birds
1806
the bush warbler aims
and arrives...
my fence
1806
mountain crows
bring the mountain bush warblers
when you come
1806
hey nesting swallows--
grassy green mountains
are elsewhere
1806
flying swallows--
wherever there's grass
hail Great Japan!
1806
entrusting the thicket
to the field crow...
the lark sings
1806
Mount Ashigara's
mountain pheasant,
celebrate the haze!
1806
hilltop pheasant
are you jealous of the heron's
style?
1806
around noon, squawking
the pheasant walks
through town
1806
even in mountain shade
a plowed field!
the pheasant cries
1806
geese fly north--
how they yearn to see
Mount Sarashina
1806
the geese I know
by sight, are they gone?
rice field of Nara
1806
frogs croaking--
"This rain on the grass
is unsanctioned!"
1806
in Adashi Field
the butterflies seem
sinless
1806
behind me a butterfly
west toward Matsubara
crawls
1806
O goddess Ichihime
smile!
a meadow butterfly
1806
casting a spell
on the man...
meadow butterflies
1806
in Katsushika
even in the outhouse...
a spring butterfly
1806
gate after gate
making the rounds...
little butterfly
1806
heron on a post--
butterflies in a breathless
flurry
1806
meadow butterflies--
the cow also
gazes
1806
flitting butterfly
to Buddha's lap
returns
1806
the new grass
cools my cold rice...
humble hut
1806
in the new grass too
evening comes...
chirping sparrow
1806
chiding the new grass
for not being ready...
sunset bell
1806
straggly violets--
here, too
the moon's dwelling
1806
a swish-swish
deep in the thicket...
flowering mustard
1806
flowering mustard
drapes the back...
my home
1806
in the thicket no one
knows about
trees budding bright
1806
springtime
yet it blooms reluctantly...
the camellia
1806
my home village--
even lying-down cows
look at camellias
1806
in plain old everyday
plains and fields...
plum blossoms!
1806
may the wind send
this plum blossom scent
to Kyoto!
1806
plum blossom scent--
even the weasel passes
with a song
1806
wrapped in the scent
of plum blossoms...
little house
1806
plum blossom scent--
through a needle's eye
the light
1806
even weeds under the tree
smell nice...
plum blossoms
1806
mountain village--
wiping greasy hands
on plum blossoms
1806
that dog ought to poop
pure gold!
blossom shade
1806
scattering blossoms--
today too
like olden times
1806
under my nose
they have passed on too...
cherry blossoms of Ueno
1806
cherry blossoms--
I also hear a temple bell
from my twenties
1806
in cherry blossom shade
there are even those
who hate this world
1806
from now on
cherry blossom solitude!
my window
1806
on Mount Ubasute
where the old were left to die...
cherry blossoms
1806
most end up
stuck in mud...
cherry blossoms
1806
an idler--
under the cherry blossoms
I live
1806
even in sleep
pigeons come to coo...
cherry blossoms
1806
no one says
"First cherry blossoms!"
my humble hut
1806
cherry trees in bloom
with no crowds...
castle mountain
1806
all night
under the cherry blossoms
nagging
1806
vacant temple--
industriously blooming
peach and cherry
1806
Japan's night sky
has become
all willows
1806
lined up
with the evening mountain...
a willow
1806
in summer's early dawn
a hackberry tree...
back window
1806
in summer's early dawn
a bird comes chirping...
hackberry tree
1806
the moon shining--
no carousing
this summer night!
1806
evening cool--
for each little village
one little hill
1806
evening cool--
a Buddha of healing
in a thicket
1806
in a cloudburst
another festival shrine
passes by
1806
rainstorm--
hanging over the village
that doesn't pray
1806
rainstorm--
a wildflower blooms
at my pillow
1806
remote village--
before rice can be hulled
the clouds billow
1806
mountain village--
before rice can be hulled
the clouds billow
1806
only when a scrap of cloud
billows to form peaks...
then to bed
1806
when I go back to sleep
it quickly forms peaks...
little cloud
1806
at a humble hut, too
a green rice field, the smoke
of New Year's pine
1806
an arm for a pillow
imagining the green rice field
is mine
1806
Buddha's birthday--
fat little sparrows
and their parents
1806
picking flowers--
everyone with a different
style of fan
1806
a butterfly deigns
to come and dance...
summer flowers
1806
a cool wind today
the first of the month...
Mount Fuji
1806
irises on the eaves--
before they shrivel
to bed I go
1806
new summer robes--
the town today
at the low-tide beach
1806
a "Good fortune!" wish
even for the pigweed...
paper fan
1806
sunset bell--
one ear covered
with my paper fan
1806
catching a cold
in Kasuga Field's bush clover...
a fawn
1806
a fawn imitating
people...
deep tree shade
1806
eating bush clover leaves
while sound asleep...
a fawn
1806
smoke rising--
the bats' world, too
is good
1806
cuckoo--
laughing at the man
in the burning house?
1806
even a penny teahouse
a happy thing!
mountain cuckoo
1806
mountain cuckoo--
the cherry blossoms of Shinano
have bloomed!
1806
when you step one foot
on the mountain...
mountain cuckoo
1806
my hut's firefly
still hasn't starved
to death
1806
first firefly--
I see you enter Kyoto
a second time
1806
Musashi Plain--
can't see Fuji from this village
but it's firefly time!
1806
skinny firefly
on the big boat's mast
clinging
1806
skinny firefly--
here too I wonder who
will call for you?
1806
my house
where the town's fireflies
hide out
1806
my gate--
lodging for the fireflies
there being no grass
1806
in my thicket
at the end of their time...
fireflies
1806
O joy!
the mosquitos of Kazusa
feast on me too
1806
burned to ashes--
even the blameless
mosquitos
1806
my hut's flies--
what are you so restlessly
doing with your lives?
1806
Katsushika--
swatting at flies
befriending a pine
1806
while swatting a fly
today again...
the mountain temple bell
1806
swatting flies--
today too they come
at a sheep's pace
1806
swatting flies--
the cape's pine tree
becomes a friend
1806
flies flying--
a maple tree reflected
on the tatami mat
1806
so many flies--
a storm engulfs
the maple tree
1806
sharing the sunset
with the pony...
a snail
1806
at an old house
with sooty straw...
blooming peony
1806
one little tub
one blooming lotus...
evening falls
1806
lotus blossoms--
the beggar's smoke
wafts over
1806
lotuses in bloom--
the swallow isn't
growing old!
1806
Lucky the Toad
crawl out!
lotus blossom
1806
foggy rain--
let the lilies in the desolate field
bloom!
1806
the bamboo shoots suffer
this crappy world's
storm
1806
another fruitless year
for the scrawny plum tree...
my life
1806
Ninth Month--
the sky wears a colorful
kimono
1806
the blooming pink
rallies its spirits...
a cold night
1806
the pink flaunts
a single bloom...
a cold night
1806
people's voices--
in the grove the cold night
isn't
1806
mountain village--
a cold night's
night walker
1806
a chill running
up my spine...
chilly clouds
1806
chilly, chilly
the sun deigns to rise
behind me
1806
yet another traveler
overtakes me...
autumn dusk
1806
children
on autumn's last day...
a ruckus!
1806
taking no notice
of such a moon...
little house
1806
on a soot-grimed
straw mat too...
moon-gazing
1806
harvest moon--
before long a hated
wind blows
1806
in autumn wind
a cicada-stung man too
passes by
1806
autumn wind--
a face used to its blast
in his mountain home
1806
from morning on
autumn wind blowing...
burnt roof tiles
1806
autumn wind--
from people's faces
it starts to blow
1806
behind me
the autumn wind blows
me home
1806
the bucket hoops
can't stop trembling...
autumn wind
1806
so quickly
on my umbrella-hat's cord...
autumn wind's first day
1806
under which star
is my home?
autumn wind
1806
watching water
sprinkling on grass...
autumn wind
1806
burnt wooden posts
stretching upward...
autumn wind
1806
blow and cool
the burnt wooden posts!
autumn wind
1806
examining
burnt wooden posts...
autumn wind
1806
over tumbled-down
burnt house pillars...
autumn wind
1806
do you whisper
"Cast away desire?"
autumn wind
1806
morning glories open
one by one...
an autumn gale
1806
from babyhood
this lesson is learned...
evening dew
1806
not thinking that
tomorrow I'll be smoke...
grassy dew
1806
soon enough
for the murderer too...
dew on the grass
1806
dewdrops forming--
on the hill, of course
smoke rising
1806
dewdrops forming--
widlflowers
at the samurai's gate
1806
on my nagging
climbing over the fence...
dewdrops
1806
dewy gate--
the sparrow's chirp
sparkles too
1806
dewdrops on the grass
at first so happy!
so cool!
1806
unaware
of the silver dewdrops...
my neighbor's flute
1806
dew dripping down--
a scowling Buddha-face
wet with it
1806
in beads of dew
one by one my home
village
1806
lightning flash--
a rain shower party
for the wild grasses
1806
is that dew
the horse's tears?
autumn mountain
1806
on Bon-dancing night
a hidden pine too...
has grown old
1806
with a spear
you dance! dance! so well
village child
1806
such cool air!
Tanabata clouds
and evening
1806
Tanabata Night--
a single eggplant
standing up
1806
the Boy Star
beams his smile...
through the trees
1806
the sumo champion
and the dawn...
classics
1806
once upon a time
he was the champ...
humble cottage
1806
evening falls--
wind blows too
on the sumo wrestler
1806
scarecrows standing--
a house without rice cakes
can't be found
1806
the pine saplings
looking pretty...
a scarecrow
1806
facing my way
in the cold rain...
a scarecrow
1806
that farmer
draining his rice field...
lonely too?
1806
the rice field guard
also watches...
water drains away
1806
in Yoshino's
ancient night...
someone pounding cloth
1806
a bush warbler too
shows up singing...
yuzumiso in the pot
1806
they call it
wind through the pines...
cooking yumiso
1806
a hill--
snipes call for a day
of life to begin
1806
Kamakura--
they even fly up sleeves
the snipe
1806
a snipe calls--
steam is rising
from my soup
1806
rice field geese--
not a single voice
sounds old
1806
once they settle down
another clamor...
rice field geese
1806
wind is blowing
and so the geese
are honking
1806
geese honking
hasten the evening...
little house
1806
evening wind--
the geese turn around
honking
1806
the day is short
as is the life
of the dragonfly
1806
leaving the morning glory
songless...
a katydid
1806
over wildflowers
soup steam wafts...
autumn festival
1806
chrysanthemums bloom
with ease...
riverbank
1806
among my pitifully
thatched eaves...
a chrysanthemum
1806
born again
morning glories make
autumn bloom
1806
morning glories--
they also aren't tired
of blooming
1806
morning glories
on the saw scrap heap
bloom
1806
is that dew
the horse's tears?
rice blossoms
1806
even where the puppy
sleeps...
red fallen leaves
1806
a fluffy pillow
for the young buck...
red leaves
1806
one sleeve cold
river's rushing sound...
evening's red leaves
1806
leaves turning red--
making my morning tea
complete
1806
oppressed by creepers
roses
of Sharon
1806
roses of Sharon
despite the scolding crows
survive
1806
chestnuts dropping
one by one...
the night deepens
1806
wooden bucket--
but no mountain chestnuts
today
1806
little chestnuts
how often are you
stepped on!
1806
little chestnuts
pissed on by the horse...
shiny new
1806
a frozen bell clangs
on the mountain behind...
still in bed
1806
marking the end
of another year...
snowfall
1806
comparing my wrinkles
with the pickled plums...
first winter rain
1806
come in snail
and live with me...
first winter rain
1806
festival sake
festooned with red leaves...
first winter rain
1806
mushrooms congregate
on the tree stump...
winter rain
1806
on me, on the mountain
we take our turns...
winter rain
1806
over the vendor's cooked food
evening's
winter wind
1806
winter wind
blowing in my sleeves...
sake, beans and rice
1806
in winter wind
basking in the sun...
Mount Matsuchi
1806
falling snow
we'll sleep at my house
maybe tomorrow
1806
it's snowing, geese
come quick!
to my gate
1806
pierced by
Lord Noto's arrowhead...
a hailstone
1806
stuck in the wrinkles
of my knees...
hailstones
1806
sleet falling
into steam rising...
rice cake tub
1806
hot water on rice
and I'm happy...
sleet falling
1806
first frost--
my teeth could crack radishes
up to last year
1806
frost on grass--
in this year of suffering
I'm off to trample you
1806
facing a house
without sake...
night frost
1806
here and there
eggplants dangle too...
withered fields
1806
all sorts of fools
moon-gaze too...
winter prayers
1806
break out
the konjac jelly!
first winter rain
1806
at midwinter bathing
wringing my sleeves too...
so cold!
1806
ashamed--
eating then going to bed
I hear the winter prayers
1806
just watching it
my whole body shivers...
cold water bathing
1806
all the tea at hand
I unseal...
evening time
1806
first thing smoking
in my winter hearth...
red leaves
1806
in Katsushika
they dump soot there too...
Sumida River
1806
the Twelfth Month singers
don't turn around and look...
Sumida River
1806
at dawn
with the wicker fish trap
fisherman, chatting
1806
a bit cheeky
morning's first rooster...
wicker fish trap hut
1806
sowing wheat
under the pines...
Buddhist temple
1806
even for this body of dust--
this year's cotton
is worn
1806
hearing the winter quilt
unfold, here comes
sparrow
1806
is the horse also
growing old well?
snow sled song
1806
"Great Japan!"
join the snow sled song
sparrows
1806
the plum tree too
utterly shackled...
winter seclusion
1806
early winter seclusion--
whose thin smoke
over there?
1806
winter seclusion--
the wild geese labor
till evening
1806
for three months
my winter seclusion...
old age
1806
white charcoal
not broken his year...
in my fist
1806
wild boar--
it looks like you just
woke up
1806
wind blows--
the wild boar's sleeping face
so innocent
1806
trampling my house
to pieces, are you?
flock of plovers
1806
wrapped in
red, red leaves...
pufferfish face
1806
entering a gate
under plum blossoms...
pufferfish vendor
1806
entering Kyoto
wrapped in red leaves...
pufferfish face
1806
with a pufferfish
crossing Musashi Plain...
red raincoat
1806
winter hay
and smoke from tea grounds...
sweet nostalgia
1806
bobbing and weaving
a know-nothing bird sings...
fallen leaves
1806
tea smoke too
in the Buddha's shadow...
falling leaves
1806
at falling time
the birds rejoice...
tree leaves
1806
looking again and again
behind him...
leaves falling
1806
mixed in
with the fried rice...
red leaves
1806
why so slow
withering?
little thicket's hedge
1806
lacking good sense
out-of-season flowers
on the fence
1806
on a burnt branch
before my eyes...
out-of-season bloom
1806
let this be your
singing place, cricket...
winter plum tree
1807
even on New Year's Day
around here Edo
is countrified
1807
for the turtle too
it's the First Month
first day
1807
may the gods grant
prosperity!
the emperor's spring
1807
spring begins--
I send up my smoke
like everyone else
1807
at my gate
the artless pigeon too
sings "It's spring!"
1807
even the smoke
rises anciently...
spring begins
1807
with no cards or letters
spring has begun...
thatched hut
1807
"Spring's begun"
I say then see
the hole in the wall
1807
today too
the hackberry tree snags
the kite
1807
the trainer lets
his monkey hold it...
New Year's kite
1807
sound of a loom--
hidden in bamboo
a New Year's kite
1807
New Year's Day--
plum blossom-viewing
from my bed
1807
it being today
even in a nook of the hedge
picking herbs
1807
Koyorogi--
the beach sets a limit
to herb-picking
1807
appreciating
the falling snow...
picking herbs
1807
the bush warbler sings
with a country twang...
springtime
1807
rising over
the swishing grasses...
spring sun
1807
spring sun--
over the swishing grasses
gliding up
1807
off to Asakusa
with coins to offer...
a long spring day
1807
for the turtle on a rock
the usual...
long spring day
1807
the back gate
opens on its own...
a long spring day
1807
getting dark later--
the sound of building
a hut for hawks
1807
the chicken stares
at the man...
a long spring day
1807
the horned owl's opinion--
every day
is long
1807
blades of grass
catch the measles too...
spring departs
1807
"even this long spring
comes to an end..."
mountain meadow
1807
thin spring snow--
everyone in
a New Year's mood
1807
spring snow
on my narrow sleeves...
clinging
1807
spring snow sprinkles
the earth god's
festival song
1807
my home village--
rice cakes soaked
with spring snow
1807
rustling reeds
all bedraggled...
spring rain
1807
off to enjoy
Mokubo Temple's evening...
spring's last rain
1807
for the mountain village
the usual First Month...
spring rain
1807
the spring breeze
whistles through...
pond snail shells
1807
in spring's breeze
clutching chopsticks...
a sleeping child
1807
over sticky rice cakes
the good spring breeze
blows
1807
misty day--
the meal at the mountain's foot
marvelous
1807
through heat shimmers
the murmuring
rain
1807
heat shimmers--
the katydid must be
in that hole
1807
on Devil's Island
on Buddha's Death-Day...
cherry blossoms
1807
even the sumo wrestler
has a blast...
Doll Festival
1807
by ones and twos
in little nooks they crouch...
low tide
1807
Fukagawa--
from a peach tree gathering
low tide shells
1807
threshing tea--
leaves fly at a fat sparrow's
face too
1807
sowing seeds to the edge
of the kettle's soot-pile...
herbs
1807
the blessed priest
won't see it in his next life...
grafted tree
1807
at my gate
the crow laughs
at the branch I grafted
1807
even the stray cat
begging
for a wife!
1807
nestling--
even when people come
opening its mouth
1807
while I watch
he's off to make a living alone...
baby sparrow
1807
after the bush warbler drinks
water is drawn...
old well
1807
bush warbler--
what don't you know
about people?
1807
the bush warbler sings--
no trace of a country
accent
1807
bush warbler sings
a pestle pounds...
plum blossoms
1807
even on the little islands
Buddha's law...
swallows
1807
baby swallows in the nest--
eyes glued
on the evening sky
1807
mountain village--
even the swallows sing
in celebration
1807
evening swallows--
no hope for tomorrow
for me
1807
through a gap
in the cloths for sale...
a skylark
1807
singing since morning
skylark, your throat
is parched
1807
singing lark--
little grasses too
become money
1807
getting used to drinking
the horse's water...
a pheasant
1807
a pheasant crying
the old woman's plot of wheat, too
all green
1807
a pheasant cries--
burnt black yesterday
this ancient pine
1807
the pheasant's cry
sounds half-hearted...
spring begins
1807
giving these skinny legs
new life...
a pheasant
1807
geese have gone--
the field's grass chafing
people
1807
the departing goose
drops an enormous
crap
1807
smell the thicket's
buckwheat before you go...
departing geese
1807
the traveling geese
check it out thoroughly...
sooty mat
1807
traveling geese--
the human heart, too
wanders
1807
from a tub
amid tufted grasses...
croaking frog
1807
next to my shadow
that
of a frog
1807
frogs croaking
the nights becoming
shorter
1807
Noin's rain
pitter-patter falls too...
on the frog
1807
in leafy shade
an old man's voice...
a frog!
1807
in leafy shade
gazing at the camellia...
croaking frog
1807
"Come see
the crappy house at night!"
croak the frogs
1807
an evening frog
in rainy weeds sings
of old age
1807
at my gate
the hoarse frog
keeps singing
1807
a butterfly on the horse's
wet leg
fast asleep
1807
thicket bees
in the next life don't
be like me
1807
tufted grasses--
the horse gazes
at plum blossoms
1807
for the pony
it's a neck-scratcher...
blooming plum
1807
the thicket's edge
blooming on the sly...
plum trees
1807
glaring at the newcomer
with his umbrella...
blossom shade
1807
like the sky
over Katsushika...
clouds of blossoms
1807
cherry blossoms--
I've been living in Edo
for this day!
1807
rain of cherry blossoms--
this year, too
I've sinned
1807
cherry blossom shade--
"That was good thunder!"
he says
1807
cherry blossom clouds--
leaving Edo
tomorrow
1807
blossoming mountain--
even men who've knocked down Buddha
are here
1807
for the poor
there's no spring
without blossoms!
1807
even in falling rain
satisfied faces...
blossom shade
1807
behind me a dog
growls his distrust...
cherry blossoms!
1807
bells and big drums
all stop...
cherry blossoms
1807
cherry blossom guard--
not much
of a Buddhist
1807
simply trust,
simply trust!
cherry blossoms in bloom
1807
the vegetable patch too
is worth a look...
cherry blossoms
1807
in yellow roses
a great courtier's
thin kimono
1807
the village child
clutching the willow
sound asleep
1807
planting grass--
the nights are growing
shorter
1807
short summer night--
this morning on my pillow
dewdrops
1807
June rain--
the crow scorns
my thatched hut
1807
June rain--
they watch from two houses
wildflowers
1807
looking again
looking again...
someone else's green field
1807
the sky colors
of dawn have changed
to summer clothes
1807
every time I put on
the summer kimono...
feel old
1807
such a moon!
yet he's under his fan
asleep
1807
the rivers have
an ancient darkness...
cuckoo
1807
cuckoo--
since you're in Kyoto
look at that moon!
1807
cuckoo--
this year again, nothing
but weeds
1807
the cuckoo's becoming
a regular...
moonlit night
1807
making the bush warbler
reach old age...
my thatched hut
1807
my fence where the bush warbler
comes to sleep...
it too is old
1807
wind-blown softly
through the open window...
firefly
1807
is my wrinkled hand
bad for walking?
first firefly
1807
while I'm gone
you and the bush warbler are in charge
my snail
1807
fresh green leaves
blowing, blowing...
where I lie
1807
smoke rises
on Mount Togakushi...
skin-chilling air
1807
Echigo mountains--
a chill runs up
my spine
1807
a chill runs up
my spine...
Echigo mountains
1807
autumn chill--
my spine feels
the mottled mountain
1807
autumn evening--
this is nothing like
my home village
1807
drifting cloud--
"Autumn is over!"
a cicada sings
1807
a glimpse of moon
over my home village...
then clouds
1807
even the moon
over my home village...
brings tears
1807
bright moon--
in a little thicket too
a festival!
1807
not caring about
the harvest moon above...
house party
1807
mountain fog--
the beautiful voice
of the dung-hauler
1807
does it delight
the village child?
bell for the ancestors
1807
on the ancestors' altar
without fail
a lucky wind blows
1807
you saw the bonfires
for the dead?
mountain rain
1807
Bon dancing night--
the little stream flows
more anciently
1807
Bon dancing night--
seems especially ancient
this flow...
1807
now and then
a pine breeze...
sumo wrestler
1807
avoiding the wildflowers
he sits...
sumo champion
1807
the sumo wrestler
and the pine
grow old together
1807
a little party
in the red leaves...
mountain deer
1807
the hoe's a curse
I'm thinking tonight...
wild geese calling
1807
pulling shut
the window covers...
geese honking
1807
in the grassy meadow
how l-o-n-g you are!
red dragonfly
1807
people call it
the "Buckwheat Place"
red dragonfly
1807
the dragonfly's redness--
chased away
by people
1807
the dragonfly's tail, too
day by day
grows old
1807
from the eaves
one by one...
wildflowers
1807
blooming better
and better!
the festival chrysanthemum
1807
watered by
the village dog...
chrysanthemum
1807
snow country's
humongous morning glories
have bloomed!
1807
down and dirty
just as is...
bush clover blooms
1807
after blooming day
twining 'round my legs...
bush clover
1807
Tama River--
entwined around a pestle
blooming bush clover
1807
barren bush clover--
softly, softly its blooms
have scattered
1807
evening falls--
blooming bush clover
fills the window
1807
the little crow
also weeps for joy...
ears of rice
1807
morning after morning
slurping salted tea...
red leaves
1807
the young buck
wipes his wet nose...
autumn leaves
1807
drawing near them
a sudden loneliness...
autumn leaves
1807
red leaves--
the closer you get
a bit sad
1807
the youngest child
joins us for morning tea...
red persimmon leaves
1807
puckery persimmons
also yield red leaves...
late riser
1807
before people do
herons raise a clamor
"Ice!"
1807
the year ends--
how long will that turtle
hang there?
1807
winter storm, winter wind--
the cow's sweat
blown away
1807
winter wind
from off the mountain...
night howling
1807
winter wind--
the pig giggles
in his sleep
1807
from the deep heart
of Shinano
snow is falling
1807
mallet brushwood--
good words spoken about
our great snow country
1807
sleeping side by side
Shinano's mountains too...
evening snow
1807
snow falling--
the entrance gate
to Shinano
1807
snowy day--
people of my village too
unwelcoming
1807
mountain of snow--
the day I don't see it
I'll go
1807
first frost--
what are you praying for
katydid?
1807
Basho's Death Day--
where winter rain falls
konjac jelly
1807
my grave too
will soon need his prayer...
a monk beats his bowl
1807
sweeping soot--
even the sparrow's bed
in the thicket
1807
grumble, grumble
the pigeon nags...
no gift of new clothes
1807
the pines of Takasago
laughing...
the year's last day
1807
gathered up and down
the shore...
firewood for the new year
1807
drowsily nodding off--
circle of friends
in paper robes
1807
looking pitiful
in the blighted tree...
a skullcap
1807
for a chysanthemum
nipped by frost...
wooden brazier
1807
today too
bamboo viewing...
wooden brazier
1807
charcoal scale--
please dont be
next door!
1807
paying no heed
that spring is coming...
the wood fire
1807
through the smoke
a glimpse of olden times...
fallen leaves
1807
this loneliness
and to top it off...
fallen leaves
1807
even holy Jizo
is looking older...
fallen leaves
1807
falling on
my lone bonfire of leaves...
evening rain
1807
for the bush warbler
one is a hat...
red leaves
1807
pruning the wick
of the candle too...
little pine
1807
the crow looks
like he's thinking
"Tomorrow!"
1807
meeting you again
my home village...
one-sided love
1807
hot bath steam
a bit stuck-up...
little hut
1808
ah well
the road is wretched...
year's first day
1808
a shiny-new year
has come again...
for my lice
1808
First Month--
at the cat's grave too
plum blossoms
1808
First Month--
in a nook of the village
plum blossoms!
1808
old coat--
a long First Month
finally ends
1808
stand of trees--
wild daisies also part
of flowering spring
1808
the wild daisies
celebrating
spring's first day
1808
a new spring
and a monkey!
viewed through my cuff
1808
spring's begun--
the sky over my house too
like olden times
1808
while I slept
the plum tree bloomed!
lucky direction walk
1808
those plum blossoms too
must trust...
lowering the basket
1808
on the homecoming servant's
face too...
plum blossoms
1808
on the Servants' Holiday
there's no hiding
the white hair
1808
Soba Field--
on the first day of Rat
picking a pine tree
1808
stockpiling rice
for Little New Year's...
little nook of spring
1808
out of place
with the New Year's pine...
my house
1808
putting on my
New Year's clothes...
the mountain owl laughs
1808
New Year's water--
an unfortunate soul
ladles it
1808
begging actors--
the olden times return
today
1808
now it's a springtime
befitting old men...
evening rain
1808
spring peace--
too much light hits
my back-alley home
1808
spring day--
the outhouse sandals
are new
1808
the bush warbler's
throat is parched...
a long spring day
1808
grass growing
from a dent in stone...
getting dark later
1808
complaining about
my neighbor's bamboo...
a long spring day
1808
even for the meadow
butterflies...
the day is long
1808
days for blossoms
to scatter...
sadly grow longer
1808
roly-poly pigeons
growing fatter...
a long spring day
1808
Sumida River
from whence will spring's dusk
come?
1808
the spring dusk
signs off...
Kanei Temple
1808
spring evening--
the bamboo fire-feeding pipe
is a treasure
1808
at Iozaki
an old-timey evening...
spring rain
1808
hole in the wall--
"blessed" spring's
night rain
1808
in a place spring rain
has stopped...
"I wait for thee"
1808
in spring rain
Kamakura's sparrow's...
how they sing!
1808
home village--
spring rain on the grass
Hoe Festival
1808
to my dinner tray
evening's spring breeze
comes wafting
1808
misty day--
the great courtier
with sand in his hair
1808
a precious harp
a beggar's flute
deep in mist
1808
a poorly played flute
faintly, faintly...
spring mist
1808
heat shimmers rise
even from my hand's
wrinkles!
1808
heat shimmers--
tomorrow's sake price
on a little brushwood fence
1808
heat shimmers--
yesterday it sang
pond snail shell
1808
heat shimmers--
someone listening to
a snail shell
1808
by Doll Festival time
not a decent cherry tree
blooming anywhere
1808
do you think
it's too smoky in here?
face of the doll
1808
the butterfly and sparrow
creep along with it...
low tide
1808
some stay behind
in the wheat...
low tide crows
1808
the bush warbler, too
has a merry song...
tea pickers
1808
even bird-eating birds
lose their nests
in the burning grass
1808
the butterfly sleeps--
until the burning field's smoke
covers it
1808
giving shade
for the farmer's plowing...
plum blossoms
1808
just hearing a bush warbler
is enough...
grafting a branch
1808
become the bush warbler's
sleeping place...
my grafted tree
1808
after dark
now I want to fix it...
grafted tree
1808
plum blossom scent
sends him carousing...
lazy cat
1808
are you planning
to leave your nest, little bird?
evening bell
1808
anchoring
the bird's nest...
the fence
1808
adding themselves
to the bird's nest...
cherry blossoms
1808
bush warbler--
even the turtle wants
to break into song
1808
not hushing up
for the bush warbler...
sparrows
1808
bush warbler--
the nursing baby also
opens her mouth
1808
nesting swallows
what are you grumbling about?
darkness
1808
speeding along
a lazy day, the singing
of a skylark
1808
a pheasant cries--
the teardrop rain
of Umewaka Day
1808
its tail points
to the rising moon...
pheasant
1808
the field pheasant's
hiding place...
my hut
1808
Mokubo Temple--
even at dusk the pheasant
still crying
1808
mountain temple--
in the outhouse too
a pheasant cries
1808
at my gate
what's your point?
crying pheasant
1808
even the wild geese
leave it alone...
my home
1808
that croaking at the plum tree
is growing old...
frog
1808
even atop
the seaside dweller's rice...
a frog
1808
his mouth open
for the falling blossoms...
a frog
1808
behind blooming
flowers of bindweed...
a frog
1808
mountain temple bell--
the frog too
must feel old
1808
watching me
with a grumpy face...
a frog
1808
on the offering shelf
does the butterfly also hear
Buddha's promise?
1808
Adashi Field--
preceding the dewdrops
butterflies
1808
gate's butterfly
since dawn, how have you
kept yourself busy?
1808
if you like sake
butterfly, come!
Sumida River
1808
a flying butterfly
broken by chopsticks...
wild plum
1808
spring's first butterfly
sleeps there all night...
dog's bowl
1808
first butterfly--
before long some crow's
bite
1808
spring butterflies--
the cow has no desire
to be young again
1808
a copper pheasant
coos in the rain...
a flitting butterfly
1808
among the whitebait
a big mud turtle
plays too
1808
darting whitebait
suddenly are born...
night haze
1808
whitebait--
yesterday they parted ways
with the turtle
1808
in new grass
even I'm in fashion!
this year's sleeves
1808
new grass--
a sparrow and I
just playing
1808
in round numbers
about three hundred years...
violets
1808
flowering mustard
barging in, blooms...
Yoshino Hill
1808
mustard flowers bloom
while lying down...
my hut
1808
flowering mustard--
even on a rainy night
Higashi Mountains
1808
tied to the trellis
it blooms no more...
wisteria
1808
the way things are--
the bark-stripper's plum trees
are in bloom
1808
plum blossom scent--
slurping it in
with the vegetable soup
1808
getting used to this blanket
of plum blossom scent...
straw mat
1808
tucked into folds
of plum blossom scent
I sleep
1808
plum blossoms gone
suddenly Kyoto
looks old
1808
the owl
has a connoisseur's face...
plum blossoms
1808
"Well then, we'll teach you
how to die..."
blossom shade
1808
the beggar too
sings a song?
blossom shade
1808
among cherry blossoms
not so soldierly...
Sir Horse
1808
cherry blossoms--
how long
since olden times?
1808
splish-splash!
the sparrow takes
a blossom bath
1808
cherry blossoms scatter--
a bush warbler sings
I cry
1808
cherry trees in full bloom--
colds, no doubt
are spreading
1808
cherry blossoms--
birds with eyes stitched
shut singing
1808
rain of blossoms
and the Tiger's tears...
let them mingle
1808
once again
there's a toll on the bridge...
blossom viewing
1808
a cherry blossom
blizzard...
the dog's bowl
1808
tomorrow and tomorrow
will they still be?
cherry blossoms
1808
polished to a shine
by my sweat...
cherry blossoms
1808
the little boy
goes with his father...
mountain cherry blossoms
1808
even the rice grinders
stop singing...
cherry blossoms scatter
1808
cherry blossoms--
to my lowly sleeve
they cling
1808
that they die hard
is proven again...
cherry blossoms
1808
a soot-grimed
umbrella-hat too...
on cherry blossom day
1808
the cursed cedar
growing fat...
cherry blossoms fall
1808
cherry blossoms scatter--
another day
of life's chaos
1808
under the cherry tree
in bloom
a little gambling shack
1808
sticky rice cakes--
but too late
cherry blossoms fall
1808
the Buddha too
looks this way...
cherry blossoms!
1808
mountain cherry blossoms--
hair decoration
for a bald man
1808
mountain cherry blossoms--
the pine trees
stand guard
1808
his peach sapling
has blossomed...
though he never prays
1808
the servant returns
and welcoming him home...
peach blossoms
1808
in mosquito territory
the double blossom
yellow roses
1808
yellow rose--
the cultivated grasses
blocking your sun
1808
the yellow rose
wants to hang around...
for the cuckoo
1808
even in little nooks
green willows...
Kyoto
1808
killing a chicken--
the willow at the gate
so green
1808
a bird leaves the nest
to see for himself...
short summer night
1808
stitching together
the short summer nights...
croaking frogs
1808
short summer night--
wind-made flaws in bamboo
mend
1808
choking off
the cool breeze...
wild roses
1808
glug-glug goes
cool water...
bees have left their hive
1808
even where I sleep
the June rain
sends its wind
1808
in the cloudburst
paying no heed...
sleeves of the dancers
1808
summer mountain--
dewdrops in the grass
all shapes and sizes
1808
from the plume grass
the saint's pure water
flows
1808
the blooming pinks
folded over...
pure water
1808
the beehive dangles
heavily above...
pure water
1808
mountain's pure water--
though shaded by trees
it disperses
1808
deigning to guard
the pure water...
a stone Buddha
1808
old weeds--
the festival's breeze
reaches them
1808
paying no heed
to Buddha's birthday...
wildflowers
1808
a wisteria trellis
joins the fray...
Buddha's birthday flowers
1808
lazy cicada--
wearing only a light
kimono of wings
1808
growing old
with the early chrysanthemum
paper fan
1808
conducting the choir
of evening's insects...
paper fan
1808
it reaches
the bush warbler's bed too...
smudge pot smoke
1808
a four or five foot
yellow rose trembles...
smudge pot smoke
1808
at my humble hut
smoked by mosquito smudge...
wildflowers
1808
dewdrops--
evening's smudge pot smoke
over wildflowers
1808
thin legs--
while cooling myself appraised
by a horsefly
1808
the bats' home
getting on in years...
the post
1808
get a move on, bat!
it's dinnertime
in Kyoto
1808
drinking cheap sake--
this cuckoo
this grove
1808
the bush warbler, too
isn't growing old!
mountain sake
1808
from deep inside
the pretty flower...
a mosquito
1808
drinking at the gate--
mosquito, you too
toast the morning moon!
1808
mosquitos coming out--
such a gorgeous
evening sky
1808
whine of mosquitos--
just stretching your foot
toward the grass
1808
mosquitos whine--
even the rustling bamboo
is slandered
1808
on wet shins
they can't stick well...
mosquitos
1808
a great spot
to hear the cuckoo...
but mosquitos!
1808
swatting a fly
but hitting
the Buddha
1808
chasing a fly
all the way
to the blooming pink
1808
blades of grass--
utterly drenched the cicada
sings
1808
the only thing
the cicada wears...
cool,light kimono
1808
for the cicada too
with outstretched legs...
the noon sky
1808
in one village
late-summer bonito
and bright moon
1808
through blooming bindweed
a large woman
makes her way
1808
in bindweed
"Cricky! Cricky!" a cricket
sings
1808
blooming bindweed--
as red
as the devil's eggplant
1808
bindweed flowers--
even on the smoke-covered
rocks
1808
be a Moon Flower
Rich Man...
just one star
1808
enjoy the moonflowers
O god
of the outhouse!
1808
moonflowers--
the pitter-pattering rain
a good luck god
1808
bamboo shoots--
the bush warbler brings
her children
1808
peeling a melon
in the plume grass...
a breeze
1808
Ninth Month--
the 29th day
the chrysanthemum blooms
1808
autumn begins--
lying down, looking at
snowy mountains
1808
first autumn morning
the mountain snow's wind
arrives
1808
nippy air
turns even nippier...
nightfall
1808
a nippy wind--
quince fruit
quince blossoms
1808
nippy air--
the sold pony goes
on a journey
1808
nippy, nippy air
in the thatched hut...
nightfall
1808
the horse neighs--
the night just as cold
for him
1808
a pine tree
like none other...
a cold night
1808
against the tree
by the gate a ladder...
a cold night
1808
a huge disappointment
nights turning cold...
little house
1808
one and all
faces of the Buddhas
cold tonight
1808
emerging moon--
there's no house
not cold tonight
1808
such cold nights!
behind the barrier gate
he stands
1808
even the gourd
seems to shiver...
a cold night
1808
my paper lantern
is snatched away...
a cold night
1808
hey snail
how do you make your living?
autumn dusk
1808
the owl is happy
in his solitude...
autumn dusk
1808
with the moon out
it seems to shrink back...
little mountain
1808
no sight yet
of the rising moon...
holy men
1808
Shinano road--
how many nights now
that moon on the eaves?
1808
not looking smoky
through hot spring steam...
face of the moon
1808
under my bottom
the stone warms up...
moonlit night
1808
as if stone--
this harvest moon
that woman
1808
blocking completely
the harvest moon...
hackberry tree
1808
lit by the harvest moon
no different...
trashy house
1808
the harvest moon too
turns a cold shoulder...
little house
1808
autumn heavens--
for one little bird
so vast
1808
trusting its fate
to the autumn wind...
duckweed
1808
in autumn wind
this year's crop...
red leaves
1808
autumn wind--
even in the eaves
balls of miso
1808
autumn wind--
death draws closer
with every year
1808
through what teeth
I have left
autumn's wind whistles
1808
dewdrops forming--
each by each no worry
till tomorrow
1808
dew on the grass--
are you watching people
as you tumble?
1808
what do you think
of the silver dew
Mr. Scarecrow?
1808
in the silver dew
I'd like to sow seeds
of plume grass
1808
in silver dew
people with offerings...
rice for Buddha
1808
silver dewdrops--
the house's owner
is ashamed
1808
silvery silvery dewdrops--
I rest my chin
on my cane
1808
happily watching
the dewdrops forming...
a frog
1808
please do form
O dewdrops!
says my hut
1808
stinging bug
you too someday, some time...
dewy grass
1808
the swallow's steady
stare...
lantern for the dead
1808
warrior monk--
Tanabata night's rain
pouring down
1808
watching in an underskirt--
above the moonflower trellis
Tanabata stars
1808
scarecrows at dusk
darkening...
human faces
1808
stored away
with reverence...
the scarecrow
1808
for people
and for scarecrows
the day ends
1808
the young buck cries
with good reason...
rain on the mountain
1808
young buck--
his last cry
thin and long
1808
mountain deer
in bush clover dew...
wash your face!
1808
before the geese
can take their seats...
crows
1808
autumn's first geese
come first
to the poor town
1808
my lantern comes--
the insect breaks out
in song
1808
caged insect--
he's learned to sing
in all this smoke
1808
five or six trembling
rice plants...
my insect cage
1808
the insects' chorus
makes it smaller...
shrine
1808
Buddha and ladles
and everything else...
insect song
1808
Musashi Plain--
in its middle at a inn
an insect cage
1808
singing all
the cool night long...
caged insect
1808
the caterpillar
transformed flies away...
morning moon
1808
hey toad
the caterpillar will grow
and fly away!
1808
he, too, quickly learns
how cold the morning is...
dragonfly
1808
when will it become
a cricket's nest?
my white hair
1808
"The world is good!
Good!" so say
the locusts
1808
not shrinking back
from the sunset...
wildflowers
1808
in grass where the wolf
shed his fur...
wildflowers
1808
wildflowers--
high over people's heads
the bell tolls
1808
out of the grasses
the inevitable
wildflowers!
1808
birds singing--
wild daisies too
are blooming
1808
in the musket's
line of fire...
a maiden flower
1808
my autumn--
time for the ivy
to turn red
1808
decorating the puppy
bush clover
blooms
1808
children play
with the deer
bush clover blooming
1808
bush clover blooming--
the big dog
sound asleep
1808
Miyagi wilds--
one lone bush clover
in bloom
1808
every evening
not growing old...
blooming bush clover
1808
in one sleeve
the plume grass wind
buffets
1808
the autumn fly's
final sleeping spot...
paulownia leaf
1808
morning rain
pitter-patters...
a paulownia leaf falls
1808
dropping plop!
onto the puppy...
one leaf
1808
one leaf falls--
yet the summer weeds
still are lush
1808
after one day
among people...
one leaf left
1808
not a pretty sight
the paulownia leaf
wind-blown
1808
the autumn wind
isn't blowing...
mountain gourd
1808
acorns--
soon to drop down
with the dew
1808
one by one
not noticed by people...
mushrooms
1808
a "Praise Buddha!"
pops to my lips...
mushrooms
1808
a matsutake mushroom
on his head...
high priest
1808
pines shed their needles--
come mushroom-hunting time
who'll be here?
1808
to the mountain's god
the mushroom thief
prays
1808
among the reeds
on the year's last evening...
a wooden drum
1808
standing
in the dying year's sun...
hackberry tree
1808
Sumida River--
all the snow in sight
swept away
1808
snow and sleet
chasing behind me...
a hundred miles
1808
my child too
praising Buddha...
winter prayers
1808
plum blossom viewing
is difficult tonight...
winter prayers
1808
as night falls
even Mount Fuji ages...
winter prayers
1808
let the place I die
have cherry blossoms...
my winter prayer
1808
clueless I bow
toward my house...
winter prayers
1808
plum tree--
the dumping ground for
Kyoto's soot
1808
soot sweeping--
the horse's head
is next
1808
soot sweeping--
the first bush warbler's
singing spot
1808
sweeping soot
the sun sets in peace...
vegetable field
1808
sweeping soot--
plum blossoms at the gate
indifferent
1808
in the tree's shade
pounding rice cakes
for Amida Buddha
1808
pounding rice cakes--
in Kyoto all chickens
are awake
1808
in a Sumiyoshi nook
growing a year older...
sea gulls
1808
despised
by the barrier guard...
a plover sings
1808
rather ugly
the pufferfish thinks...
human face
1808
withering naturally
where it stands...
willow tree
1808
today
exactly like today
in the evening...
1809
cornerstone--
on New Year's morning
a bird without a nest
1809
on New Year's Day
I have company
bird without a nest
1809
on New Year's Day
a balancing act in her sleep...
pretty woman
1809
less and less First Month
as nights pass by...
mist
1809
missing the boat
for First Month...
spring breeze
1809
morning's laugh--
how much to buy
the blossoming spring?
1809
now with homeless eyes
I see it...
blossoming spring
1809
for this homeless body
of mine, spring's
first day
1809
homecoming servant--
pretending the persimmon
is sweet
1809
homecoming servant--
the paulownia tree too
grew up fast
1809
in the mop's
drying place...
my New Year's pine
1809
making charcoal balls
one by one...
a long spring day
1809
the big crane
not stirring a bit...
a long spring day
1809
it's getting dark later
getting dark later...
whispers the wind
1809
in the long spring day
mouth wide, passing by...
a crow
1809
swishing in the tide
this long spring day...
grasses
1809
no one in the village
says a word...
a long spring day
1809
thin smoke rising--
this spring day
is long indeed!
1809
tomorrow spring
will come to an end...
nape of my neck
1809
at spring's last night
the owl
is nagging
1809
paying no attention
to the departing spring...
crows
1809
that village's
floating bridge of dreams...
spring frost
1809
the little shrine
is all azaleas...
spring rain
1809
chrysanthemum seedlings
wet and bedraggled...
spring rain
1809
today too
looking at the same mountain...
spring rain
1809
the willow completely
a willow now...
spring rain
1809
an earthenware
elder sister doll for sale...
spring rain
1809
in spring rain
plucking wilted flowers...
the courtier
1809
this spring rain
won't be enough, I think!
Sumida River
1809
where the spring rain
falls first...
pond snail shells
1809
spring rain--
mud-dumplings too
gifts from afar
1809
spring rain--
better than the flowers of others
my little thicket
1809
at the pole's tip
evergreen and redbud...
spring rain
1809
the spring breeze
blows all evening too...
Higashi Mountains
1809
spring breeze--
drying in the grass
a paper dog
1809
spring wind--
even in the pillar's hole
pollen
1809
spring breeze--
on a night journey to see
Higashi Mountains
1809
spring breeze--
even at night a market stand
on Naniwa Bay
1809
accusing the pine
of foolishness...
evening mist
1809
to my window
he comes as usual...
thin mist
1809
the evening bath
slish-slosh...
mist
1809
it's my umbrella-hat
don't run, geese!
first mist
1809
in heat shimmers
the vines people loathe...
beautiful
1809
heat shimmers--
yesterday it wasn't there
tea-and-dumpling shop
1809
snow melting--
for sparrows at the gate
good as a harvest moon!
1809
snow melting--
at the gate the sparrows'
New Year's bash!
1809
"I'm the first
of the migrating servants!"
a crow
1809
umbrella-hats and kimonos
as evening falls...
threshing tea leaves
1809
a plowman facing
sunset...
Mount Tsukuba
1809
at dawn
the homeless cat, too
cries for love
1809
the lover cat
dandied up like Genji
at the fence
1809
settling into
the penny toss hole...
baby sparrow
1809
chasing the crow
ten or twelve yards...
mother sparrow
1809
baby sparrow--
inside someone's fist
his first cry
1809
fledgling faces
peek out the nest...
sparrows
1809
the bush warbler
hushes to listen...
tea-picking song
1809
accompanying the rain
with its tail...
a pheasant
1809
seeing off
the departing geese...
little pines
1809
an auspicious
twenty fifth day...
the geese depart
1809
traveling geese
my lake is crossed
in no time
1809
a butterfly flits
as if wanting nothing
in this world
1809
butterflies flitting--
pretty little bamboo shoots
shooting up
1809
nothing else blooming
but mustard plants...
my hut
1809
wisteria trellis--
behind it, in the light
wildflowers
1809
plum blossom scent--
I tell you spring
is a night thing
1809
the plum tree
where the stray cat carouses
in bloom
1809
my home village--
even in summer
plum trees bloom
1809
plum blossom scent--
the edict board furnished
with sacred sake
1809
simply trust!
cherry blossoms flitting
down
1809
cherry blossoms scatter--
bad Buddhists
carousing
1809
cherry blossoms!
country bush warblers
country candy
1809
one cherry tree
has kept blooming...
the corrupt world
1809
secluded house--
the cherry blossoms late
the bonito...late
1809
a windy place!
but one cherry tree
in bloom
1809
fifty years
of gazing, gazing...
cherry blossoms
1809
in a Sumiyoshi nook
blooming
cherry blossoms
1809
simply trust!
cherry blossoms fall
pit-a-pat
1809
even the frog's eyes
can't turn away...
cherry blossoms!
1809
almost criminal--
blooming cherry tree
and a little house
1809
the old cherry tree
blooming
till it drops
1809
mountain cherry blossoms--
in all 88
sacred sites
1809
my mean peach tree
nice and chubby
with blossoms
1809
peach tree in bloom--
but first a prayer
for the dewy wheat
1809
green willows--
at ten different holes
gamblers tossing pennies
1809
rustling
in Goddess Kannon's heart...
the willow
1809
planting a willow--
someday, in summer
who'll enjoy its cool air?
1809
again there is splendor
beyond the gate...
willow tree
1809
coming now
is it a Kiso cloudburst?
Mount Asama
1809
under the cloudburst
standing tall...
lamps in the grove
1809
in the cloudburst
there's not a gate
without a pink
1809
extending from my pillow
in the downpour...
plume grass
1809
every evening
"Rain is coming!"
cloud watchers
1809
night festival--
the big cloudburst
has passed on
1809
in the pine breeze
the saint's pure water
flows
1809
planted for
my summer retreat's scenery...
little pine
1809
a praying mantis
to the base of Mount Fuji
clings
1809
it's Mount Fuji's grass
but no trace
of cool air
1809
no Mount Fuji
I can almost straddle
this year
1809
let's thatch with irises--
Mount Asama's smoke
looks calm
1809
swallows return
on the day eaves are thatched
with irises
1809
from the mountain
I see my own gate...
summer banner
1809
pit-a-pat pearls
of sweat drip down...
rice plants
1809
it's the bush warbler's
dinnertime...
I change to a summer robe
1809
new summer robe--
from morning on used
by the pine
1809
Kasuga Field's deer
sniff it...
my summer kimono
1809
first day of summer
my summer kimono...
rustic
1809
watching the whiteness
of summer kimonos...
Sumida River
1809
a boor with the ladies
but he puts one on...
thin summer kimono
1809
tomorrow night and the next
the same?
in my mosquito net, alone
1809
stopping to count
my mosquito net's holes...
sickle moon
1809
high noon--
inside the mosquito net
wildflowers blooming
1809
stroke victim--
even holding a paper fan
an ordeal
1809
smoking out mosquitos--
soon the fireflies
are gone too
1809
veiling the face
of the evening moon...
smudge pot smoke
1809
they're all slandering
my rice field!
evening cool
1809
stitching her eyes shut
makes the bird cry...
cool air at the gate
1809
the ice vendor
cools himself...
with just plume grass
1809
a soft pillow
for the fawn...
azalea bush
1809
growing up
with the bush clover...
a fawn
1809
Mokubo Temple
even at night can be seen...
cuckoo
1809
hey cuckoo
did you call out?
logs for the temple
1809
cuckoo--
in a province without rice fields
splendid
1809
it has a sky
for singing cuckoos...
farmhouse
1809
three raindrops
and three or four
fireflies
1809
a softly blowing
world-improving breeze...
fireflies flit
1809
into my pitiful kettle
one by one...
fireflies
1809
"Come, fireflies!"
a single stalk of bamboo
makes my night
1809
sparkling fireflies--
even the frog's mouth
gapes
1809
evening falls--
dampened by fireflies
my thin tatami mat
1809
the pesky mosquito's
birthplace...
temple flower
1809
a swallowtail butterfly
flutters in...
mosquito-scorching fire
1809
do you also miss
your mother?
cicada
1809
the world-healing
bamboo! little thicket!
cicada chorus
1809
come what may
won't you trust in the Buddha
snail?
1809
it's Buddha's rain
that's falling!
snail
1809
moonflowers--
world-improving rain
so refreshing
1809
the peony has bloomed!
the whole day
sparrows chirping
1809
the cat's bell tinkling
in the peonies
here and there
1809
at my hut--
rascally crows
emaciated peonies
1809
staring at the shoots
of new bamboo...
Buddha
1809
"Grow, grow, grow
melons!"
buzz the bees
1809
thick drapes over
the deutzia blossoms...
willow
1809
deutzia blossoms--
by lantern light
I bury the frog
1809
blooming deutzia--
both of us
Buddha's devotees
1809
a plum drops
and then another...
beads of dew
1809
without fanfare
they've borne plums!
trees in the field
1809
mountain mansion--
the plum trees
stand ripening
1809
moon in the autumn dawn--
to the pretty sky flies
a mosquito
1809
rubbish dump--
yet still the harvest
moon arrives
1809
tonight's so-called
harvest moon...
a mountain
1809
the harvest moon
hangs over it...
rice cake gift
1809
harvest moon--
in the pine planted
by a nondrinker
1809
harvest moon--
I tell you it's cold
on Shinano Mountain!
1809
harvest moon--
wherever you are
someone's annoyed
1809
harvest moon--
a Fukakusa ceramic
Princess Kaguya
1809
autumn rain--
the weaned pony
goes to market
1809
hey snail
how do you make your living?
autumn rain
1809
the horse drinks
medicine too...
autumn rain
1809
even in Sarashina
one by one...
rainy autumn nights
1809
making what teeth
I have left wiggle...
autumn wind
1809
autumn wind--
the untrimmed hair
of my fifty years
1809
autumn wind--
blowing from mountainside
lanterns
1809
his hair tied with straw
but joyous...
autumn wind
1809
silver dewdrops--
and just as precious
irises
1809
mountain temple--
fog covers up
the wood shavings
1809
almost halfway
burned out...
lanterns for the dead
1809
katydid--
caught by someone
waiting for the stars
1809
it'll probably wreck
Tanabata...
smudge pot smoke
1809
instead of Tanabata
all I can see...
smudge pot smoke
1809
on Tanabata night
he brings his cow...
first plume grass
1809
shine through to my bedroom
Tanabata stars!
smudge pot smoke
1809
awaiting the stars
throwing out tea grounds...
Chikuma River
1809
the wild pony
is led away from Kiso...
his tail waving goodbye
1809
the cricket's song
is accompaniment...
the rice field drains
1809
evening smoke--
on the man playing pigeon flute
it hangs
1809
for pine and bamboo
it's like olden days...
cloth-pounding
1809
like in Old China
Yoshino, too, clonks...
evening cloth-pounding
1809
still green--
miso beans at my hut
yanked up at last
1809
this year's sake--
first toast:
to the weeds!
1809
buckwheat blooming
chrysanthemums fluttering...
new sake!
1809
emptied so quickly--
this year's
sake from Kasai
1809
in deep grass
a quail sings...
grandma starches clothes
1809
Asazawa Marsh--
arising yet again
call of a snipe
1809
a snipe flying
finishes off the day...
dusk
1809
a snipe flies up--
the sinless cow
only wants to sleep
1809
flying snipe--
skimming over crossing
the tall grass
1809
the snipe standing
on one leg...
deep in thought
1809
migrating birds--
how many of your flocks
have overtaken me?
1809
migrating birds
haven't you seen me before
in Japan?
1809
bagworm--
hanging in the plum tree
his job
1809
bagworm--
hanging from flowers
his job
1809
a cicada chirrs--
suddenly light breaks
toward the lake
1809
atop the magistrate's
folding fan...
a locust
1809
flying locusts--
the willow tree too
grows old
1809
Eighth Month--
on the raw fish salad
locusts gather
1809
locust swarm--
suddenly in a mood
for humming
1809
the mountain lord's
beloved ivy...
also turns red
1809
grasses and bush clover
clog it with blooms...
doorway
1809
bush clover blooming--
the butt print
of Tokiwa Gozen
1809
over the bush clover
under the bell-flowers
mosquitos whisper
1809
beside the road
wildly disheveled...
bush clover blooms
1809
field of graves--
a red cock's comb
blooms alone
1809
"Praise Buddha!
All praise to Amida Buddha!"
manjusa flower
1809
the rice I planted--
I know it
by sight
1809
four or five rice stalks
at my gate...
evening falls
1809
the bush warbler struts
crunch crunch...
red leaves
1809
autumn's goddess
allows the piddle splashing...
red leaves
1809
the shrine's snipe
spots a red leaf...
snatches it
1809
everyone on good terms
smoke from three or four pipes...
red persimmon leaves
1809
even the suckling
kitten watches...
falling leaf
1809
red roses of Sharon
enough to cool
a man
1809
trodding on acorns
big and round...
I wander
1809
little chestnuts
it's not yet your day
to burst
1809
a reedy place--
from the gate onward
gathering mushrooms
1809
the horsefly calls
"Surely the mushrooms
are this way!"
1809
"This way
to the mushrooms!"
the horsefly flies
1809
one by one--
even the mouse's hole
has mushrooms
1809
it suits me--
even the former owner's
winter cold
1809
first snowfall--
what are you praying for
katydid?
1809
my hometown's
sleeve-dragging snow
flitting down
1809
red leaves fall--
one in my dear one's
little pan
1809
will I be the next one
you caw over?
crows
1810
homeless, too
seeing in the new year
in Edo
1810
even cows and horses
with New Year's faces...
mountain home
1810
my home village--
even the horse
with a New Year's face
1810
taking stock
of this old body...
spring's first dawn
1810
great Edo--
even for a monkey without tricks
spring blossoms
1810
Shimogyo Town--
in the dark before dawn
spring blossoms
1810
for my lonely life too
help arrives...
spring blossoms
1810
my hut--
just two green leaves
my blossoming spring
1810
muddy clogs
at the gates reveal...
it's spring!
1810
how do the words
"Spring's begun" strike you?
Ueno Hill
1810
even my ramshackle
hut, home
to the New Year's god
1810
big field--
the late homecoming servant
late plum blossoms
1810
homecoming servant--
behind the graveyard's pines
the wind
1810
a kite flies--
it's practically already
a world of wheat
1810
New Year's Day--
a one-penny kite, too
in Edo's sky
1810
the monkey with
a dancer's fan...
a tear rolls down
1810
morning shadows--
someone who has parents
picking herbs
1810
I too
live in this world...
New Year's herbs
1810
slick and slippery
in the spring day...
sacred branches
1810
go ahead, clamor
this long spring day!
geese at my gate
1810
trembling in seaside rice...
for the crane too
the day is long
1810
"just today
spring comes to an end..."
field of grass
1810
the long spring
finally at an end...
Sumida River
1810
the young sparrows
clamor at spring's
last day
1810
the horned owl
regrets spring's passing...
those eyes!
1810
crossing the field
with a paper lantern...
spring rain
1810
in spring rain
chasing the elusive fish...
dog on the shore
1810
spring rain--
showing a sake cup
calling foxes
1810
in spring rain
a bit bedraggled...
Tone River crane
1810
spring rain--
a world of vegetables
at Yone shrine
1810
pigeons mating
crows mating...
the spring rain falls
1810
seeing it
on a spring breeze night...
my house
1810
spring breeze--
completely gone now
the holy men
1810
in the spring breeze
already casting shadows...
irises
1810
father's steady glare
another thing
in the mist
1810
in spring mist
three pines, two cranes
husband and wife
1810
at the gate
so many in the mist!
Sumida River cranes
1810
at my hut in the mist
so many legs!
Sumida River cranes
1810
hurry into mist
hurry, hurry!
a bird set free
1810
evening falls--
from mist the bell
of life passing
1810
in one spot
the crows congregate...
snow is melting!
1810
the geese awake
"snow is melting!
melting!"
1810
a winter's worth of snow
melting...
a humongous moon
1810
snow melting--
tonight a fat round
moon
1810
melting snow--
the morning voices
of pilgrims
1810
snow melting--
where ducks are nesting
soft moonlight
1810
"Snow's melting! Melting!"
pigeons celebrate
in the tree
1810
talking things over
in the plum tree...
migrating servants
1810
this same hazy night
somewhere else...
the Doll Festival
1810
the beggar child prays
with trembling voice...
for a doll
1810
looking like she's enduring
my crappy house...
the doll
1810
first one to blow
on the hot herb cakes...
Mount Tsukuba's east wind
1810
herb cakes--
the garden's bush warbler
wants this one
1810
from the tip
of the bush warbler's beak
the tide rushes out
1810
sparrows chirp
in a garden nook, here too...
low tide
1810
now and then deer
move in close...
tea pickers
1810
what day then?
all the hut's sparrows
leave the nest
1810
sing, sing!
orphan sparrow...
so quiet
1810
she cries and attacks
the human goblins...
mother sparrow
1810
"Beware the human goblins!"
is that what you're chirping?
mother sparrow
1810
a happy family--
the sparrow has
both parents!
1810
evening falls--
how the orphan sparrow
cries!
1810
Asakusa--
behind the house Mount Fuji
and a singing lark
1810
today too
a single skylark...
Mount Matchi
1810
completing
the green mountain
a pheasant cries
1810
looking like ants
people at dusk...
a pheasant cries
1810
the sake bucket--
where the pheasant
goes to sing
1810
the crying pheasant
teases it with his tail...
Sumida River
1810
my hut's thin
thread of smoke...
a pheasant's cry
1810
my evening--
a village dog barks
a pheasant cries
1810
dawn--
a Buddha-praising goose
flies too
1810
in a mood for farewell
farewell!
the wild geese
1810
to returning geese
what I am...
a worthless nobody
1810
don't go, geese!
now I'm unlocking
the house in the trees
1810
wishing them
Buddha's blessing...
departing geese
1810
"First Month!
we want First Month!"
croaking frogs
1810
on a flower petal
clucking his tongue...
a frog
1810
stand of trees--
the inevitable croaking
frog
1810
evening shadows--
separated from his friends
a frog croaks
1810
aware of the sun
setting, the butterfly
flits away
1810
Kiso Mountains--
butterflies fill your sky
so briefly!
1810
butterfly flitting--
I too am made
of dust
1810
she had a husband
when the year was new...
widow butterfly
1810
the flitting butterfly
not bothered at all...
smoke
1810
what a shame--
the butterfly flits off
to the Other Shore
1810
shame, shame!
on the month's last day
a meadow butterfly
1810
"Hey bagworm
are you ready?" asks
the flitting butterfly
1810
first butterfly
don't get caught up!
horse dung raking
1810
living on the mountain
I'm used to the bees...
evening pillow
1810
sunset--
a ruckus of cherry blossoms
a ruckus of trout
1810
"Be brave, cherry blossoms
and fall!"
the little trout
1810
the bamboo grass shade
an empty hope...
little trout
1810
darting to the rhythm
of blossoms falling...
little trout
1810
little trout
swimming west while blossoms
flow east
1810
letting clams
vomit mud...
a moonlit night
1810
mountain grass--
soon as it sprouts
it's sold
1810
the grasses too
are in their youth...
flock of sparrows
1810
the dandelions too
have shaved heads...
festival day
1810
straggly violets--
the cherry blossom spring
has passed
1810
the katydid
born just today...
blooming violets
1810
in a Sumiyoshi nook
violets have
their capital
1810
his detested wife's
violets...
all have bloomed
1810
violets blooming--
the camellia spring
has passed
1810
do your headwaters horde
all the violets?
Sumida River
1810
herb cake herbs
join in the rustling
violets
1810
flowering mustard--
the little beauty
worries about her sleeves
1810
deep mountain trees--
soon as buds appear
they're eaten
1810
plum blossom lovers
who planted plum trees...
parents
1810
plum blossoms--
spreading into the countryside
lice of Edo
1810
the child
clutches them tightly...
plum blossoms
1810
world of man--
even in the country bowing
to plum blossoms!
1810
to be alive like this
is a wonder...
cherry blossom shade
1810
among cherry blossoms
a long stay
in this world
1810
amid cherry blossoms
he speaks bluntly...
old man
1810
cherry blossoms--
residents of this world
a short time
1810
ripples on water--
mingling with cherry blossoms
an old clog
1810
cherry blossoms scatter--
my life too is heading
downhill
1810
blossoms scatter--
my years too
on a downhill slide
1810
all by itself
without any help...
blossoming mountain
1810
cherry blossoms
in a nook in this floating
world of craving
1810
in falling blossoms
growling to Amida Buddha...
temple dog
1810
rain of cherry blossoms--
not a face
without a fan
1810
cherry blossom shade--
a fox spirit
has enchanted me!
1810
just touching
the cherry blossom petals
brings tears
1810
even my inner devil--
come out, look!
blossoming mountain
1810
as evening falls
my usual journey...
blossoming mountain
1810
a defiled priest--
before the cherry blossoms
he stands
1810
trampled demons
supporting Buddha's way...
cherry blossoms
1810
at the outcastes' temple
with cool defiance...
cherry blossoms
1810
the puppy is escort
on the pilgrimage...
cherry blossoms!
1810
the devil's horns
snap off!
cherry blossoms
1810
where Goddess Kannon
is found, expect
cherry blossoms!
1810
before blooming
they already seduce...
cherry blossoms
1810
cherry tree--
the same blooming splendor
for Father Emperor
1810
cherry blossoms
cherry blossoms
Third Month, 30th day!
1810
hey cherry blossoms--
why the rush
to scatter so soon?
1810
ripples on water--
only so-so
cherry blossoms
1810
"Get ready, get ready
for death!"
cherry blossoms
1810
to saintly eyes
they are bodhisattvas...
cherry blossoms
1810
cherry blossoms
brush my sweaty underwear...
windblown
1810
fall, cherry blossoms--
stop up
their foul mouths!
1810
is today the 30th?
the 30th?
cherry blossoms scatter
1810
even to these old eyes--
cherry blossoms!
cherry blossoms!
1810
how they bloom
even in the west...
cherry trees
1810
mountain cherry blossoms
cherry blossoms!
even on the 29th
1810
mountain cherry trees--
the blossoms quite
sickly
1810
seeing the mountain
cherry blossoms...
I miss my teeth
1810
evening cherry blossoms--
the devil is moved
to tears
1810
evening cherry blossoms--
today too
like olden times
1810
growing old--
even the cherry blossoms
a bit annoying
1810
yellow roses--
hidden in the grass
they rustle
1810
summer evening--
how many fields crossed
fish from Mito?
1810
in the summer night
out the back door too...
Mount Matchi
1810
summer's early dawn--
in a dark little corner
a willow
1810
five blades of grass
go swish-swish...
nights grow short
1810
the hot night's
great, great thing...
weeds!
1810
hot night--
in an Edo nook
bickering
1810
a big sky's
splendiferous sunset...
the heat
1810
a wasteland
of lush green life...
the heat
1810
staring at straw sandals
with stripes...
the heat
1810
morning coolness--
the mountain pine's
fever drops
1810
evening at the gate--
a cool sky
coming soon
1810
a cool breeze--
the katydid
bursting with song
1810
the cool breeze
a gift from Buddha...
pine by the grave
1810
in this cool air--
grateful drops
of evening dew
1810
in cool air
my stringed money purse...
stolen
1810
cool air--
now I must leave you
green bamboo blind
1810
cool summer air--
viewed from the mountain
a big sitting room
1810
cool air--
a dark little nook
on Sumida River
1810
cool moon
and a cool pine tree
standing
1810
June rain--
pressing on my chest
Chichibu mountain
1810
with dignity
in the cloudburst drooping...
willow
1810
little festival--
people in the tree shade
while it pours
1810
evening market--
the cloudburst caught
in sandals for sale
1810
in the cloudburst
an enormous morning glory
has bloomed!
1810
summer mountain--
the maiden flower
happy by herself
1810
watched over
by hot peppers...
pure water by the gate
1810
in an old, old kettle
from olden times...
pure water
1810
evening shadows--
he throws pure water
on the horse
1810
flute pratice--
the rice fields one and all
so green!
1810
youngest child--
for this year's festival
a red fan
1810
splashing about
the sparrows bathe...
Buddha's birthday tea
1810
Kasuga Field's deer
also attend...
Buddha amid birthday flowers
1810
village children
and crows mingle...
Buddha amid birthday flowers
1810
traveling crow
at Edo's purification...
now you're old
1810
toad parents
bring their children...
evening purification
1810
evening's shrine boats--
about ten snipes
stand guard
1810
purification hoop--
the first three times
for Mother
1810
purification dolls lag behind
others in the lead...
Sumida River
1810
purification dolls--
how wise of them
drifting west
1810
purification dolls--
setting them on the water
heavy traffic
1810
night storm--
I rely on my little
purification doll
1810
bullheads sing--
he fishes the moonlit
mountain stream
1810
night fishing--
the pleading
of a katydid
1810
grow old
with the cormorant fisherman
little pine
1810
the cormorant fisherman
tends to his cormorants...
wildflowers
1810
beyond the pretty
grasses...
a cormorant boat
1810
wind wafting
it now sets forth...
cormorant boat
1810
watching wildflowers
flit and flutter...
cormorant boat
1810
the man's child
tends to the cormorant...
wildflowers
1810
evening dew hangs
on the man who watches...
cormorant boat
1810
in their new summer robes
today too...
mountain, little thicket
1810
doing what I can
to shrink the belly...
new summer robe
1810
the bush warbler
sings to it!
my summer kimono
1810
Fourth Month, second morning
I put on
the summer kimono
1810
grateful
for the summer kimono
evening dew
1810
soft-blowing grasses
and soft, soft
green bamboo blind
1810
green yesterday
in the blowing wind...
bamboo blind
1810
empty boat--
three herons guard
the mosquito net
1810
O owl
don't tell the world my house
has no mosquito net!
1810
evening falls--
on the tip of my fan
Mount Asama
1810
smoke from the mountain--
my paper fan
speeds it along
1810
pretty--
beyond the smudge pot smoke
Sumida River
1810
rushing into
the smudge pot smoke...
evening crow
1810
in grasses' shade
where soon I'll enter...
evening cool
1810
back gate--
under the big hackberry tree
nobody cooling off
1810
the empty purse
floats away...
evening cool
1810
tea smoke--
Buddha's little rice field
is planted too
1810
Great Japan!
an evening of deer
does and fawns
1810
following behind
the hunter with his bow...
a fawn
1810
like it's throwing a party
for the bats...
grove of new bamboo
1810
placing its trust
in human goblins...
molting bird
1810
gobble up
my dawn dream...
cuckoo!
1810
morning after morning--
what day is it now
cuckoo?
1810
he's not the type
to wait around...
cuckoo
1810
ten cloudy days--
this is getting old
cuckoo!
1810
it's New Year's
for the blooming pinks...
"Cuckoo!"
1810
wake up, pinks
and plume grass...
"Cuckoo!"
1810
you too
should grow old...
cuckoo
1810
cuckoo--
he even scolds
the tree planter
1810
hey cuckoo--
this lake doesn't
belong to me!
1810
in all Musashi Plain
just one...
cuckoo
1810
useless me
useless weeds...
the cuckoo's opinion
1810
he's hated
by the young folk...
the dear cuckoo
1810
I've waited long
for thee
O cuckoo!
1810
come what may
praise Buddha!
mountain cuckoo
1810
cheered on
by a reed warbler
the incompetent thief
1810
cooling off
in the long day...
floating nest
1810
a flower big
as an umbrella-hat...
flitting firefly
1810
an arm for a pillow--
though there's nagging
a firefly guest
1810
fireflies flitting--
yet still absentmindedly
calling for them
1810
so quickly they join
the human goblins...
fireflies
1810
the owl
seems to be hooting
for fireflies
1810
pre-festival evening--
a huge firefly
comes out
1810
the mountain hermit
doesn't suit their taste...
flitting fireflies
1810
though a poor-soiled
province...
such fireflies!
1810
tomorrow, tomorrow
and tomorrow...
Mount Mi's mosquitos
1810
in old age
mosquito-burning
the only great feat
1810
the bell clangs
"Come to mosquito country!
Come! Come!"
1810
swarm of mosquitos--
a five foot tall
chrysanthemum
1810
just seeing
a willow being planted...
mosquitos come out
1810
evening after evening
alive with mosquitos...
cherry tree
1810
mountain hermit--
deep in his sleeve
singing, a cicada
1810
morning rain--
look! next to me
a snail
1810
just as you are
become Buddha!
snail
1810
the potted bamboo
rustles, rustles...
bonito!
1810
simply trust
mountain cuckoo!
summer's first bonito
1810
for a traveler
rainmaking flowers
have bloomed
1810
when the tofu vendor
comes by, bindweed
blooms
1810
just being alive
I
and the poppy
1810
a vast wheat field
dotted with blooming
peonies
1810
floating leaves, floating leaves
lotus blossom horseflies
feed
1810
after biting the horse
the horsefly hides out...
lotus blossoms
1810
lotuses at their peak
horseflies and mosquitos
feast
1810
from today on
hear my "Praise Buddha!"
lilies
1810
amid blooming lilies
many, many prayers
to Amida Buddha
1810
quietly the lilies
have bloomed...
a skylark sings
1810
the cow sleeps--
the lilies must
have happy hearts
1810
lilies blooming
sanctioned by no one...
evening
1810
lilies blooming!
giving his all to his song
the skylark
1810
bush warbler--
in a floating world nook
ripened wheat
1810
blooming in a nook
of ripened wheat...
what's that flower?
1810
with all your might
wiggle young bamboo
while you can!
1810
wiggle wiggle
wiggle young bamboo
while you can!
1810
young bamboo--
just two or three days
of youth
1810
for bamboo shoots
a dark night
for bamboo shoots
1810
living apart
from the bamboo shoots...
wildflowers
1810
bamboo shoots--
big brothers, little brothers
growing up
1810
bamboo shoots--
scraggly yellow roses, too
grew overnight
1810
night after night
the gate's bamboo shoots
rise in the world
1810
morning and night
yet still not smoldered...
fresh green leaves
1810
mulberry tree--
tomorrow, tomorrow
your new leaves
1810
deep tree shade--
some bush clover-like grass
in bloom
1810
hard tofu--
amid deutzia blossoms
a farmhouse
1810
the closer I get
to my village, the more pain...
wild roses
1810
boat in the reeds--
truly, truly
a cold night
1810
little post--
on a cold night
my good luck god
1810
my home village--
Lord Buddha
in the cold night
1810
red-laced straw sandals
pass by too...
autumn evening
1810
red-laced straw sandals
pass by too...
autumn dusk
1810
bickering in the long night
in a nook
of Sumida River
1810
to my rib cage bones
O the night
is long!
1810
autumn's end--
a big man strolls
along
1810
autumn ends--
already the Buddha
fills Kyoto's sky
1810
trying and trying
to grasp the harvest moon--
toddler
1810
aimed at the face
of the harvest moon...
tea smoke
1810
harvest moon--
tonight even you
are busy!
1810
harvest moon on a journey--
bush clover
and plume grass
1810
the harvest moon
drifts with the tide...
a little boat
1810
evening falls--
like demons emerging
autumn clouds
1810
autumn rain--
a little sumo wrestler
passes
1810
the autumn wind
blows him along...
Tada the musician
1810
on autumn wind
from the thicket...
the usual smoke
1810
autumn wind--
he was good-looking too
in olden times
1810
autumn wind--
landing on my belly
a katydid
1810
from the midst
of swimming servants...
autumn wind
1810
grassy field--
over tofu dregs
the autumn wind
1810
from which star
did you tumble?
autumn wind
1810
morning dew--
the gigantic shape
of a butterfly
1810
blades of grass--
lost among the raindrops
autumn dew
1810
here for as long
as the silver dewdrops...
mountain ascetic
1810
over silver dewdrops
the usual smoke...
wafting
1810
silver dewdrops
drop by drop leading...
to Buddha
1810
in silver dewdrops
what is he praying for?
my neighbor
1810
in silver dewdrops
holding out his bowl...
holy man
1810
in the silver dewdrops
vanishing...
my house
1810
silver dewdrops--
a sparrow sings
of next-life enlightenment
1810
silver dewdrops--
the treasures
or Sir Yasuyori!
1810
grateful
for the cool, cool air...
evening dew
1810
dewdrops scatter--
the sparrow sings
of next-life enlightenment
1810
in dewdrops dewdrops
like it's drifting...
the pillar
1810
the dewdrop world's
great helper...
his boat of prayer
1810
amid dewdrops
of this dewdrop world
a quarrel
1810
amid weeping dewdrops
pigeons coo
"Praise Buddha!"
1810
even viewing dewdrops
an occasion for sake...
this year
1810
face of a toad--
adopt the mood
of dewdrops!
1810
coveting--
dewdrops on evening's rice field
dewdrops on grass
1810
a treasure at my gate
pearls
of dew
1810
someone's young pine
enjoys it too...
Tanabata stars
1810
bell for the ancestors--
in falling dewdrops
it rings
1810
my ancestors--
today too they wander
to points unknown
1810
delighted by bonfires
for the dead...
children
1810
in the grassy meadow
flickering red...
lantern for the dead
1810
a clumsy festival!
my love wrecks her chopsticks
of plume grass
1810
morning glories
make the fence bloom...
sumo wrestling
1810
sumo wrestler--
for you this maiden
flower
1810
a scarecrow stands--
now the age
of moonlit nights!
1810
where did this cold
come from...
Mr. Scarecrow?
1810
flute melody--
thanking the mountain
scarecrow
1810
Great Japan!
a cowherd's flute
and evening cloth-pounding
1810
the lover cat
watches with one eye...
evening cloth-pounding
1810
singing with
the young pine nearby...
pounding cloth
1810
one pink
has bloomed...
evening cloth-pounding
1810
home village--
pounding cloth at the temple
and evening rain
1810
home village--
mother's cloth-pounding
faintly heard
1810
old pine--
my own life's autumn
is like that
1810
old pine--
my own life's autumn
fills my eyes
1810
back door--
three spears of plume grass
and Mr. and Mrs. Goose
1810
big bridge--
the hunter is followed
by a goose
1810
evening falls--
wild geese, smoke
and my bended knees
1810
the moon's out!
in the gate's rice field
polite geese
1810
the red dragonfly
savors the evening too...
doesn't he?
1810
evening tide--
on the grass blade's tip
a red dragonfly
1810
crickets sing
"Cricky! Cricky!"
two young lovers
1810
making love
in the withered fields...
locusts
1810
night in the hut--
a katydid forages
for food
1810
a katydid walking
searching...
my hut's shelf
1810
trampling the god's
sticky rice cake...
katydid
1810
stomping and singing
on sticky rice cake...
katydid!
1810
at evening tide
clinging to flotsam...
a katydid
1810
wildflowers--
all we say or speak about
is autumn wind
1810
when the owl hoots
how many are left?
wildflowers
1810
singed by a bolt
of lightning...
maiden flowers
1810
you can't beat me
in trembling!
maiden flower
1810
dawn--
the rice blossoms of a man
with parents
1810
four or five rice plants
rustle still...
ears left behind
1810
tea smoke--
the upland rice
trusts in the dew
1810
a great thing
under the harvest moon...
rice blossoms!
1810
evening moon--
and reaching to the sky
rice blossoms!
1810
the young face
of the sickle moon...
a paulownia leaf falls
1810
looking at persimmons--
someone's parents
planted seeds
1810
spilling from the sleeve
of a mountain goddess...
cherries
1810
chestnuts dropping--
a tea-drinking bridge
not there yesterday
1810
Tenth Month
on the tenth day...
hail
1810
first winter month--
dimly in the mist
selling temple cotton
1810
unpleasant tonight--
full moon coming
cold weather coming
1810
the year ending--
one bundle of firewood
a luxury
1810
straw fire--
this year goes up
in smoke
1810
the bush warbler follows
his mother...
first winter rain
1810
without fail
the bathhouse, closed...
first winter rain
1810
first winter rain--
the world drowns
in haiku
1810
in winter rain
how they scowl...
the Buddhas
1810
enduring the winter rain
for whom?
stone Buddha
1810
on my sleeping mat
the winter rain suddenly
gives off light!
1810
wrapping dinner
in butterbur leaves...
winter rain
1810
tripping over the dog
again...
night of winter rain
1810
in the mountain village
the clonk of a hammer...
winter rain
1810
bush warbler and granny's
winter wind...
blowing hard
1810
today too
the winter wind has strewn about
the vegetables
1810
in the winter wind
a great thing, the great
moon!
1810
winter wind--
a topic of conversation
for sparrows too
1810
in winter wind
my forehead throbs...
Higashi Mountains
1810
the first snowfall
becomes a nuisance...
evening
1810
first snowfall--
the worms in my belly
sing
1810
first snowfall--
early morning at my gate
a beggar
1810
first snowfall--
for a dog-less village
the garbage remover
1810
first snowfall--
a big deal for people
in the world
1810
first snowfall--
the rooster's morning crow
at Senso Temple
1810
first snowfall--
from Buddha's direction
pure water gushes
1810
first snowfall--
the temple walkway
misty dim
1810
"First snowfall, snowfall!"
he says
without teeth
1810
watching first snowfall
in a rotten mood...
Shinano Mountain
1810
morning snow--
my piss is also
for sale
1810
as snow falls
a seventy year-old face...
evening soba shop
1810
snow falling--
bird and maiden flower
don't care
1810
snow falls--
scratching my door at night
cherished cat
1810
a sudden flare
like a straw fire...
snow is falling
1810
hailstones--
even the gargoyle demon
seems to cry
1810
hailstones--
the nightjar returns
to the moon
1810
hailstones falling--
the pigeons hear
their fate
1810
in a tizzy
worried by hailstones...
the sparrow
1810
today even the pigeon
coos a prayer...
first winter rain
1810
winter rain falling
on the thicket...
on the Old Man's grave
1810
big fat drops
his favorite kind...
first winter rain
1810
click-clack
in a soot-sweeping mist...
Mount Matchi
1810
sea gull--
even you
are covered in soot
1810
Twelfth Month singers
look! over there!
plum blossoms
1810
don't tell anyone
about my singed paper robe!
maiden flower
1810
not crossing
Kamo River twice!
paper robe
1810
on winter's first day
big toes emerge...
toe socks
1810
the cricket's
winter residence...
my quilt
1810
two neighbors walk along
toting it...
a wooden brazier
1810
reciting a "Praise Buddha!"
for you...
wooden brazier
1810
what joy!
sawtooth oak charcoal
from a mountain
1810
funny--
my neighbor's charcoal scale
looks like mine
1810
someone's charcoal fire
hidden...
by the chrysanthemum
1810
the charcoal scale's
first purpose a treasured
child's laughter
1810
a slice of sky
over the charcoal kiln...
floating world
1810
staying glued
to the banked fire...
a priest
1810
eyeing the rice cake
on the banked fire...
crow
1810
banked fire--
the god of the poor's
poor fan
1810
tossing 'em on
the banked fire...
stolen chestnuts
1810
rapping on
the banked fire's head...
my pipe
1810
banked fire--
with my pipe rapping
its head
1810
banked fire--
hot water burbles too
evening rain
1810
frozen pickle water--
my teeth
crackle
1810
morning after morning
just a half portion...
natto
1810
dawn--
for a bellyful of natto
a trip to Kyoto
1810
at dawn red leaves
blowing down...
pufferfish soup
1810
O owl--
let me shop for food
first!
1810
bush warbler--
with a shrill voice
calling mother
1810
birdsong in bamboo grass--
too shy
for the fence
1810
evening plovers--
bills are due
people are crying
1810
you call that
your morning mood?
river plover
1810
even flying
into my sleeve...
a plover
1810
without thought
a new year begins as usual...
pond of ducks
1810
ducks quacking--
a cold new rice field
at Gokai
1810
if they were people
they'd be Buddhas!
sea slugs
1810
following custom
all have withered...
wild chamomile
1810
Katsushika--
a heron guards the radish
in the mud
1810
leaves falling--
a prayer-chanting monk
passes by
1810
behind Yoshiwara
look!
leaves are falling
1810
forming a mountain
for the bush warbler...
fallen leaves
1810
killing frost--
"No Begging Allowed"
at the thicket's inn
1810
mercy and compassion
a hoax...
out-of-season blooms
1810
old tree--
till it crashes down
out-of-season blooms
1810
moon! blossoms!
secular devotees
adore you
1811
a classic New Year's
Day spent...
with plum blossoms
1811
spring's first month
in the town...
snow falling
1811
First Month--
such a night
of bright moon!
1811
First Month--
on the servant no sign
of a beard
1811
first spring morning
my 49th year
of blossoms
1811
this morning
just a tiny bit of mist...
it's springtime!
1811
my spring
is lucky, lucky!
plum blossoms
1811
spring's begun--
I even dream about
the grove of young pines
1811
hole in the wall
pretty
my year's first sky
1811
to the year's first sky
the lion puppet
rears his head
1811
it's forming
the New Year's sky...
smoke
1811
so that the year's
first sky might come to be...
tea smoke
1811
the color of the year's
first sky fades--
people's faces
1811
village at the edge
of the year's first sky...
must be cold
1811
under the brilliance
of the year's first sky...
a hut
1811
rising into
the year's first sky...
smoke
1811
year's first sky--
please allow
my tea smoke!
1811
year's first sky--
at the edges its color
is faded
1811
to the eternal
youth ornament the child
prays
1811
day breaks
over the eternal youth ornament...
Sumida River
1811
from under the eternal
youth ornament rising...
sun
1811
my eternal youth ornament--
just three cents
of emperor's pine
1811
eternal youth ornament's
first landmark...
imperial pine
1811
my dream came true--
about the god of the poor
this early spring
1811
a trendy kite soars--
below
a beggar's hut
1811
a trendy kite soars
a mountain home
below
1811
in a silent village
one by one...
rising kites
1811
the street singer's
kite also...
rising and rising
1811
someone's parent
steps over a kite
in passing
1811
loud voices--
over twenty days now
of begging actors
1811
begging actors--
even the horse's rump
gets a song
1811
begging actors at the gate--
pigeons and sparrows
in a row
1811
begging actors--
how many plum blossoms
have you?
1811
begging actors--
even the wheat field
gets a song
1811
the lion puppet
opens wide...
plum blossoms
1811
not shutting up
New Year morning's late riser...
the crow
1811
Second Month--
the heavenly gods'
plum blossoms!
1811
moon shining
on a one-penny bridge...
springtime
1811
spring peace--
smash goes the sake bottle
on Mount Matchi
1811
a pigeon coos--
"That great thing, spring
has passed!"
1811
swish-swish
spring is departing...
field of grass
1811
hey birds!
even if you shut up
spring would go
1811
a big bridge
with guide ropes...
spring rain
1811
the tree at the gate
trusts in Kannon...
spring rain
1811
it this post
just for you, crow?
spring rain
1811
warding off crows
in the radish field...
spring rain
1811
in bush clover
a deer are gone...
spring rain
1811
in the spring rain
a big yawn...
pretty woman
1811
spring rain--
a little island too
blooms gold
1811
spring rain--
here's my house's
evening pine
1811
spring rain--
a doghouse thatched
with azaleas
1811
spring rain--
in an old keg
a plum tree blooms
1811
spring rain--
evening's mountain
shaped like a frown
1811
someone recites
the Lotus Sutra...
spring rain falls
1811
make way
for the God of Laziness...
spring rain
1811
fresh-bought rice cakes
in the box lantern...
spring rain
1811
crumbling rice cakes
with a stone...
spring rain
1811
steam rising
from straw-wrapped tofu...
spring rain
1811
spring breeze--
going down to the east
a sumo wrestler
1811
spring breeze--
a cow leads the way
to Zenkô Temple
1811
O peach
come float to me!
spring mist
1811
a death bell too
can be heard...
misty field
1811
so quickly
the mist is mended...
mountain home
1811
my home village--
a poor "Praise Buddha!" too
in spring mist
1811
the lake steams
like a hot bath...
evening mist
1811
heat shimmers--
Lord Dokan's
lookout mound
1811
today
my hut's little herbs too
become cakes
1811
my child--
today's low tide
little guide
1811
Fukagawa--
even in a five-foot garden
low tide shell-gathering
1811
"Praise Amida!
Praise Amida!"
threshing tea leaves
1811
mixed in
with the second tea harvest
azaleas
1811
plowing the rice field--
the sky a deeper and deeper
blue
1811
plowing the field
wiping snot
on plum blossoms
1811
he grafts the branch
perfectly straight...
sacred branches
1811
blown by the red
horse's nose...
baby sparrow
1811
children crowded 'round
wear her out...
mother sparrow
1811
rising to the blue sky
baby sparrow's
first cry
1811
evening falls--
a stepchild sparrow
cries in the pine
1811
the bush warbler
wipes his feet...
on plum blossoms
1811
the bush warbler
makes a face in the smoke...
fence sitting
1811
a bush warbler
is singing...
in the kettle
1811
listening to the bush warbler's
Lotus Sutra...
Shinano
1811
a bush warbler--
and made to order
plum blossoms
1811
in deep mountains too
now the bush warbler
sings!
1811
drinking country sake--
a country bush warbler
singing
1811
on the hoe's handle
a bush warbler sings...
Little-Plum village
1811
even the bush warbler
of Shinano sings it...
Lotus Sutra
1811
sickle moon--
through plum blossoms softly
the bush warbler
1811
daybreak--
a bush warbler sings
a bell rings
1811
at a little shrine
dragging his tail...
evening pheasant
1811
poking his head
out the little shrine
crying pheasant
1811
Third Month--
come the 30th day
the geese depart
1811
in tufted grasses
croaking while walking...
a frog
1811
Kisa Lagoon--
bathing in cherry blossoms
croaking frog
1811
frogs at my hut
from the beginning have sung
"We grow old!"
1811
butterflies flit--
deep in Shinano
tracks of sandals
1811
such sweet harmony
to be reborn
a meadow butterfly!
1811
this world--
the butterfly also toils
busily
1811
though infested with lice
blossom viewing...
Yoshino Hill
1811
the holy man's
westward waves of wisteria
rustling
1811
the holy man's
westward waves of wisteria
fresh-bloomed
1811
black kite--
the rice cake dealer's wisteria
in bloom
1811
wisteria in bloom
on the 30th day...
Ryodaishi Temple
1811
for the bush warbler
parents and children...
plum blossoms!
1811
plum blossoms--
a new year begins
on Mount Tsukuba
1811
at the edge
of the big sky...
plum blossom farmhouse
1811
the antelope's
mouth opens wide...
plum blossoms
1811
making dumplings
from black mud...
plum blossoms
1811
black mud--
stuck to my straw sandals, too
plum blossoms
1811
the rice husker sits
on his rice cake tub...
plum blossoms
1811
for every three feet
of mountain's foot...
plum blossoms!
1811
on the offering stand
five or six pennies...
plum blossoms
1811
cloth monkeys
three in all...
plum blossoms
1811
my home village--
a dog stands guard
over plum blossoms
1811
from plum blossoms
he calls to the peddlar...
country villa
1811
plum tree blooming--
my blunt and plain
little house
1811
the teahouse
is roofed with shells...
plum blossoms
1811
amid cherry blossoms
the smell of smoke...
pipes
1811
holy Nyoirin
in cherry blossom shade...
sleep talk
1811
cherry blossoms--
with the Founder's blessing
eating fish
1811
spring blossoms--
in the cherry grove
a worldly priest
1811
in blossoming trees
suddenly he's hidden...
my son
1811
on cherry blossom day
fasting too...
wild dog
1811
someone has slapped on
a price tag...
cherry tree
1811
the big cherry blossoms--
no buyers
at all
1811
click-clack
go the wooden clogs...
cherry blossoms!
1811
even while walking
through cherry blossoms...
nagging!
1811
born poor
viewing them even at night...
cherry-blossoms
1811
a rear sitting room
no one enters...
cherry blossoms
1811
flower guard
at night they're yours...
mountain cherry blossoms
1811
the baby at her breast
wants to eat...
cherry blossoms
1811
the roof sweeper
stands still...
evening cherry blossoms
1811
soon as the mountain
cherry trees bloom...
Buddhist whatnots are attached
1811
mountain cherry blossoms--
for you too
an end-of-month sky
1811
mountain cherry blossoms--
over you too
an end-of-month sky
1811
evening cherry blossoms--
the ants also
have a place to sleep
1811
the whole gang
forced to merriment...
cherry blossoms
1811
wheat and all
fattening nicely...
peach blossoms
1811
a yellow rose
offered as a gift...
by the fence
1811
the geese and ducks
are brazen...
willow at the gate
1811
keeping their cool--
the wild goose
the willow
1811
one strand dangles
toward Shimosa...
willow tree
1811
with each willow tree
he plants
"Praise Buddha!"
1811
the ducks have gone--
peace and quiet
of the willow
1811
on a short summer night
setting on the mountain pass...
moon
1811
cool breeze
you, too, surrender to Buddha
this life!
1811
cool breeze--
reaching even nooks
the mouse doesn't know!
1811
on the cool air
one blade of grass also
relies
1811
in summer cool
ambling down my road
to hell
1811
cool air--
evening brings to my gate
the age of Buddha
1811
cool air--
admiring the pine
the shrine's snake
1811
cool air--
the shape of the cloud
is Buddha
1811
the cicadas' world
and my world of cool air...
coming soon
1811
trusting the cloudburst
to water it...
back door Fuji
1811
rainstorm--
plume grass, reeds,
maiden flowers
1811
rainstorm--
a crossroads beggar
with a potted pine
1811
I swear
I see a demon...
billowing clouds
1811
I'd like that little one
for my gate...
billowing clouds
1811
the little ones
are all to the front...
billowing clouds
1811
a good wind!
in it, a tiny
mountain of cloud
1811
my humble hut--
trusting in the sun
rice field greening
1811
Buddha--
all the way to Hokkaido
your birthday party!
1811
the swallows too
pray for the town...
river shrine
1811
trying to yank
the thatch of irises for its nest...
sparrow
1811
the young folk
lick the iris leaves...
bath time
1811
the toddler's head fresh-shaved
his summer kimono
pretty
1811
umbrella-hats
sun hats...
trust in Buddha!
1811
fifty, sixty feet away--
the willow
the parasols
1811
Katsushika--
the cat seeks shelter
in the mosquito net
1811
a white fan--
"Who gave it to you?"
they ask
1811
cooling at the gate--
the old man's swallows
behaving
1811
even Mr. Moon
is slandered!
evening cool
1811
even the moon
is slandered...
evening cool
1811
rice planting--
today too, traveling geese
flutter down
1811
somebody giving
roadside drinking water...
to wildflowers
1811
mother deer
kneeling on one knee...
what's she saying?
1811
Asakusa--
the cuckoo stays close by
in Ueno
1811
Asakura--
introducing himself in passing
a cuckoo
1811
announce yourself
to Lord Pine...
cuckoo!
1811
outcaste village--
instead of a cuckoo
a mountain cuckoo
1811
is night
like this in China?
cuckoo
1811
oh cuckoo
you also hate Kyoto
don't you?
1811
a cuckoo--
the bridge beggar
listens too
1811
are you a fool, too
bush warbler?
singing no more
1811
clinging to the grave
of the lady-turned-nun...
firefly
1811
scattered by
Kumasaka's halberd...
fireflies
1811
they have kids--
bridge beggars too
calling fireflies
1811
a night of fireflies
has arrived...
the willow I planted
1811
the mouth that
praised Amida Buddha
calling fireflies
1811
don't turn into
a thorn bush!
flitting firefly
1811
evening falls--
in Kasai Village
fireflies and flowers
1811
hut's mosquitos
in this year of suffering...
feasting
1811
evening sky--
the whine of mosquitos
pretty
1811
in this world
they linger too long...
whining mosquitos
1811
in a sake cup
a flea
swimming! swimming!
1811
a bug resembling
a flea tsk-tsk...
pitiful
1811
mountain village--
begging I borrow
a flea-infested mat
1811
raising their chirr
on their last day...
summer cicadas
1811
cicadas chirr
herons stand at attention...
temple sitting room
1811
in a dewdrop world
singing of dewdrops...
summer cicada
1811
a refreshing evening
for the moonflowers
dies away
1811
moonflowers--
in this so-so land
a flute plays
1811
in a Sumiyoshi nook
here too
blooming irises
1811
Bancho Town--
deep in the valley
melon blossoms
1811
evening shadows--
a pigeon watches
the melon cool
1811
a blizzard
of deutzia blossoms
on the fence
1811
behind me--
big cold, little cold
night cold
1811
just looking at the shark skin
of a cactus...
the night turns cold
1811
without a blink
a mouse walks in...
a cold night
1811
Kisa Lagoon--
on an island in a rice field, too
autumn dusk
1811
every little island
in its own way...
autumn dusk
1811
quite remarkable
being born human...
autumn dusk
1811
little pine islands
fist after fist...
autumn dusk
1811
this is Yoshiwara
and yet...
autumn dusk
1811
autumn evening--
wind in the window's little hole
plays flute
1811
autumn evening--
the hole in the paper door
blows flute
1811
delightful, the view
from the gate in the long night...
all four directions
1811
autumn departs
trailing the pickled radish
vendor
1811
which of you owns
that red moon
children?
1811
granny walks along
drinking sake...
a moonlit night
1811
harvest moon--
unbefitting a woman
a tavern drinker
1811
harvest moon--
from my gate then up
Shinano Mountain
1811
just a tip remains
of the harvest moon...
Sumida River
1811
harvest moon--
at the divine knees
of Kannon
1811
harvest moon--
Sumida River thick
with mosquitos
1811
the calf begins
his journey...
autumn rain
1811
in autumn wind
how's life over there?
partner island
1811
autumn wind--
the rice field heron's face
darkens too
1811
autumn wind--
graffiti on a wall
the monk Hemamushiyo
1811
autumn wind
stripping the birch tree's
bark
1811
autumn wind--
the face of the man
who planted pines
1811
the calf begins
his journey...
autumn wind
1811
just looking at the shark skin
of a cactus...
autumn wind
1811
dazzling moon
over the autumn gale...
nice and hot
1811
the toasty warm moon
dazzling bright
over the autumn gale
1811
blowing two people
after their fleas...
autumn gale
1811
the forming dewdrops
don't struggle...
"Praise Buddha!"
1811
holy Jizo
is proclaiming something...
dew dripping down
1811
Katsushika--
the dew on bamboo too
gets a prayer
1811
dew at the gate--
the sparrow licks it
clean
1811
heron on a post
gazing down, it seems
at dewdrops
1811
this morning
an auspicious number...
dewdrops in grass
1811
dew turns to steam
trickling down selflessly...
farmhouse
1811
into the silver dew
splashing struts
the crow
1811
watching dewdrops
shows what life is...
my home
1811
passing briefly
through this world...
dewdrop pearls
1811
my humble hut--
washing arms and legs
in dewy grass
1811
the thin fog
in a tangle...
hedgerow
1811
bonfires for the dead
sputter and die...
a flood of memories
1811
placed perfectly straight
by people...
branches on graves
1811
the man in the tree
can't be blamed...
outdoor sumo match
1811
the owl sleeps
nevertheless...
sumo wrestling
1811
not caring
that evening falls...
the scarecrow
1811
the owl high above
laughs to the beat...
pounding cloth
1811
suddenly alighting
a cicada starts his song...
buck's antler
1811
young buck--
on his antler again
the cicada sings
1811
hesitating
at my hut
the stray deer
1811
little eaves--
"It's smoky! smoky!"
sings the quail
1811
big marsh--
calling to returning snipes
snipes
1811
little smoke rises--
once again a snipe's
silhouette
1811
snipe-like a man
rises from tall grass...
evening
1811
a snipe flies up--
behind one man
another man's face
1811
the rising snipe
face to face...
with Buddha
1811
geese at my gate
cry all you like...
no rice
1811
stretching her neck
the goose peeks in
my gate
1811
rice field geese--
the village's population
surges
1811
autumn's first geese
crapping on people
as they go
1811
autumn's first geese
hitting the mark...
field by my hut
1811
autumn's first geese--
plume grass beckons
people chase
1811
Mr. Long-Beard's coming
hush up!
rice field geese
1811
where did you
leave your parents?
rice field goose
1811
the cricket moves
to a new post...
on the post
1811
crying and crying
at Kisa Lagoon...
the katydid
1811
the katydid
breaks out into song...
on the deer's antler
1811
like one long ago--
the katydid rips
its paper cage
1811
stone Buddha--
who gave you wildflowers
to hold?
1811
Katsushika--
praise the twentieth-day moon
wildflowers!
1811
Katsushika--
growing in a mosquito net
a chrysanthemum
1811
blooming chrysanthemum
like me
a pseudo-hermit
1811
the dragonfly
takes a crap...
chrysanthemum
1811
my hut
with its morning glories
a palace
1811
on the month's first day
last day, no vacation?
maiden flowers
1811
graveyard--
all alone a maiden flower
twisting
1811
the young buck
silently bows...
blooming bush clover
1811
the stray cat also
picks this inn...
bush clover blooming
1811
mountain village--
an old-style cat
and bush clover
1811
pushing and shoving
into this dewdrop world...
bush clover in bloom
1811
green rice field--
razed to the ground
still blooming
1811
waving in
a fruitful year...
plume grass
1811
the big temple's doors
slamming shut...
evening's red leaves
1811
staring at the man
burning leaves...
stone Buddha
1811
red leaves--
an old man crushes them
a child collects them
1811
evening's red leaves--
cooling off
the grilled yams
1811
have you forgotten
blooming season's over?
roses of Sharon
1811
surviving
and surviving...
how cold it is!
1811
all according to plan, yet
I'm cold!
poor!
1811
in darkness
even on the tatami mat...
ice
1811
children--
Edo's ice tastes sweet
I bet!
1811
my hut--
from which hole
will spring come?
1811
geese and ducks
sing! sing!
stop the year from ending
1811
like he's biting
the cold moon...
gargoyle
1811
green brushwood
weighed in the scales...
first winter rain
1811
"Why's this winter
rain so late?"
the crow caws
1811
its name tag blowing
in the winter rain...
bag of rice
1811
in winter wind
a churning, churning
in my belly
1811
winter wind--
and there's the Buddha's
two-day moon
1811
winter wind--
for thousands of generations
the big hackberry
1811
first snowfall--
the worms in my gut
raise a ruckus
1811
first snow--
the outhouse attendant's
little lantern
1811
tamping down
my belly's worms...
morning snow
1811
frost has formed--
I see whiteness
in my nostrils!
1811
frost on the graves--
the pilgrim geese above
honking
1811
the bill collector
with shoes on steps inside
to the hearth
1811
stowing the good luck
of roasted beans...
in my heart
1811
a year older
sparrows in the bamboo...
warm and snug
1811
wood fire--
my white hair's luster
gets a compliment
1811
eyeing the potato
on the banked fire...
crow
1811
on Musashi Plain
who are they?
eating pufferfish soup
1811
"Shameful, that piss-pot!"
the flock of plovers
sing
1811
even in the tub
where reeds are burning...
a plover!
1811
on friendly terms
with the dog of Iosaki...
a plover
1811
on holy Jizo's lap!
in his sleeves!
plovers singing
1811
plovers singing--
"It's the last day
of Ninth Month!"
1811
a plover sings--
with a rice bag on his head
he passes
1811
the winter fly
I spare, the cat
snatches
1811
on people
and on pufferfish
the same moon shines
1811
beggars under a bridge
give it a toss...
pufferfish
1811
pufferfish face--
indeed indeed
brazen and bold
1811
presenting itself
to Musashi Plain...
the pufferfish
1811
wrap it in straw
or it'll show...
face of the pufferfish
1811
wrapped in straw--
of course! a pufferfish
and plum blossoms
1811
winter trees--
an old sound
from olden times
1811
leaves fall
in other word, die...
evening rain
1811
let the fleeing people
alone!
red leaves falling
1811
Mamasan Temple--
they pick up by hand
the red leaves
1811
amid frost-killed
grass see!
Great Master Ryogen
1811
killing frost--
the deer of Kitsuji
clickety clack
1811
up to today
still no decision to scatter?
out-of-season blooms
1811
the bush warbler's
son is singing...
blooming silverleaf
1811
an offering
for Jizo's fox-god...
silverleaf blossoms
1811
moon! blossoms!
forty-nine years walking around
a waste
1811
"moon" and "blossoms"
empty babble
of a floating world
1811
an Edo cat
in a restless hurry...
Sumida River
1812
even for the tongue-tied
crow of the east...
spring's first dawn
1812
the baby given chopsticks
digs in...
spring's first morning
1812
well, well...
now I've seen fifty
blossoming springs
1812
amazing to reach
my fiftieth year...
blossoming spring
1812
spring begins--
no reed mat over my head
fifty years now
1812
spring begins--
at least I'm human
fifty years now
1812
spring begins--
the Future Buddha's tenth
Year of the Dragon
1812
creating a pretty
spring...
the evening rain
1812
to the same world
one after another...
temple coin souvenirs
1812
a few broken twigs
this too
is a New Year's pine
1812
just a foot long
but it'll do...
New Year's pine
1812
a greenfinch--
Second Month, eighth day
is lucky too
1812
a crossroads sermon
gibberish
spring peace
1812
spring peace--
in the great courtier's hem
dust
1812
all of a sudden
he shuts up...
crow
1812
in the long spring day
they eat, they don't eat
pond turtles
1812
feel better, bush warbler!
it's the last
night of frost
1812
how many mountains
of seashells!
spring rain
1812
the field crow
slips so cleverly...
spring rain
1812
even the field mouse
squeaks, "What luck!"
spring rain
1812
in spring rain
what to eat tomorrow?
house on the shore
1812
in spring rain
with a paper lantern...
little beauty
1812
potted tree--
I blow a spring breeze on you
again today
1812
spring breeze--
the pleasure quarter's
night life
1812
spring breeze--
over the game stones
ten at a time
1812
spring wind--
my thatched roof
blown flat
1812
spring breeze--
where my feet are pointed
I'm on my way
1812
spring breeze--
when did you come out
day moon?
1812
long and narrow
the spring breeze blows...
gentle slope
1812
turtle shells
blown into a row...
east wind
1812
spring mist--
the place where money trees
are planted
1812
on a misty day
they chat...
horses in the field
1812
misty day--
no doubt Heaven's saints
bored stiff
1812
an old temple bell
and voices too
muffled in mist
1812
the old bowl
quickly misted over...
Sumida River
1812
even the wheat
in a morning mood...
blue mist
1812
imitating me
the good-for-nothing mountain
in the mist
1812
old pine
starting a new year...
how many spring mists?
1812
out of mist
one by one they come...
Kan-ei Temple
1812
the night guest's
lantern, misty
temple in a field
1812
heat shimmers--
how the cat talks
in her sleep!
1812
in heat shimmers
covering the rice...
crows
1812
heat shimmers--
the lackey turns to look
behind him
1812
the little tavern
open for business...
spring mountain
1812
brushed by her sleeves
every mountain
is greening!
1812
herb cakes--
when did you get here
little butterfly?
1812
even tossing rice
is a sin...
sparring chickens
1812
blue skies
nothing but blue skies...
low tide
1812
picking herbs--
the foxhole gets
a thank you
1812
the village child
picking herbs, reveals
a foxhole
1812
from mother's back
the baby monkey watches...
burning field
1812
planting one
pine sapling...
my grandchild's face
1812
snatched
by the spoonbill...
the grafted tree
1812
mountain crow--
laughing at the tree
I grafted
1812
mountain crow--
he sees my grafted tree
and laughs
1812
cats' love calls--
between them flows
Sumida River
1812
the Edo cat
in a frenzy...
Sumida River
1812
jumping so well
over the fire...
the love-crazed cat
1812
Musashi Plain--
just one house
one love-crazed cat
1812
parent sparrows
baby sparrows...
a happy mountain
1812
baby sparrow--
his face unaware
of his parents' fights
1812
are you the bush warbler's
only daughter
behind the others, singing?
1812
hey bush warbler--
up close you don't look
like a big shot
1812
lining up
with newcomer's face...
a swallow
1812
at the little gambling shack
the swallow
prattles
1812
lovely--
the sky after a lark
has sung
1812
lovely--
the sky where a noon lark
is singing
1812
come down! come down!
brushfires have started...
singing lark
1812
today too
over in the bamboo
a lark sings
1812
missing people
by two or three feet...
skylarks
1812
seeing the inn's
inner garden, the lark
sings
1812
down a narrow alley
the ocean...
a singing lark
1812
the mountain man's
hoe is his pillow...
singing lark
1812
a pheasant
loitering about, peeks
in my gate
1812
crying pheasant, pounding mill
till past noon
at the temple
1812
crying pheasant--
swallow the Eight Provinces
in a gulp!
1812
the pheasant cries
as if catching sight
of a mountain
1812
a pheasant rushing
to the mountain, missing
his darling wife
1812
the green willow too
tires of watching...
departing geese
1812
departing geese--
human beings miss them
terribly
1812
after the geese depart
back to normal...
Sumida River
1812
in the Karasaki pine
jet black...
a frog
1812
in grassy shade
the frog's wife also lives
in seclusion
1812
get ready to see
my piss waterfall!
croaking frog
1812
brazenly squatting
on the tatami mat...
a frog
1812
in every direction
ten thousand blessings...
croaking frogs
1812
taking flight
and a leak...
croaking frog
1812
crossing the bridge
behind the blind man...
a frog
1812
paying a visit
to the flower's root...
a frog
1812
just one foot
on a butterbur leaf...
croaking frog
1812
like he's tugging
at his loincloth...
a frog
1812
the yellow rose's
honorable ally...
a frog
1812
scowling
at the evening sky...
a frog
1812
next to evening's Mount Fuji
his butt...
croaking frog
1812
wake up! wake up!
sparrows, butterflies
are dancing
1812
don't be lazy!
sparrows, butterflies
are dancing
1812
making their living
butterfly couples...
three...five!
1812
the poop scooper
utterly smeared...
with butterflies
1812
little straw mat--
Bodhidharma, butterfly
and sparrows
1812
clinging to
the boar hunter's arm...
little butterfly
1812
one came
and two left...
garden butterflies
1812
the butterfly
and the deer, best
of friends
1812
butterfly dances
'round the arrow
in a dying deer
1812
three feet
from the musket's barrel...
little butterfly
1812
temple mountain--
a baby tumbles
a butterfly flits
1812
from dawn to dusk
the butterfly couple
makes their living
1812
a green lawn--
come have a seat
Sir Pond Snail!
1812
little tub--
pond snails ready for shelling
play sliding games
1812
making no fuss
they are captured...
pond snails
1812
pond snails sing
they're in the kettle
but don't know it
1812
sound asleep
there is peace on earth...
pond snail
1812
Mokubo Temple--
a blossom-viewing pond snail
and Mount Tsukuba
1812
a pretty thing
on the beggarly vine...
buds
1812
this changing world--
even my hut's grasses
so young!
1812
new grass--
at the town's back door
Mount Fuji
1812
croaking frogs--
"Mustard in the ditch
has bloomed!"
1812
in the flowering mustard
Kazusa-style
"Praise Buddha!"
1812
in the flowering mustard
well, well
the great god Inari!
1812
beyond the gate
of flowering mustard...
Sumida River
1812
at the far edge
of flowering mustard...
Mount Fuji
1812
Praise Buddha!
my little side-field
has bloomed with rape
1812
flimsily
the beggar's mustard flowers too
have bloomed
1812
like they're calling
to the bush warbler...
the bracken
1812
plum in bloom--
a beggar's blossoms too
next door
1812
on his scrap of mat
four or five pennies...
plum blossoms
1812
in the field
of the Buddha of Misfortune
plum blossoms!
1812
though they bloomed
they're not much to look at...
plum blossoms
1812
in hell's mirror
the plum-blossom thief's
reflection
1812
brother, look!
Sakubei's shop has
plums
1812
coins clattering
he thanks them politely...
plum blossoms
1812
at the end of the money-
begging rope...
plum blossoms
1812
in the woods where
a wild boar was spotted...
plum blossoms
1812
an uproar 'round
the penny toss hole...
blossom shade
1812
spreading as far
as Hokkaido...
Buddhism and blossoms
1812
squirming
through the cherry blossoms...
people
1812
in scattering blossoms
Buddha and Buddhism
unknown
1812
scattering cherry blossoms--
thirsty for that faraway
mist
1812
year after year
the sin of blossoms...
wrinkled now
1812
bloom, cherry trees!
Buddha's law spreads
to Hokkaido
1812
in this world
over hell...
gazing at blossoms
1812
stepchild cherry blossoms--
not stunted
at all
1812
where they dug up
the blooming cherry tree
the wind blows
1812
second day
at market, drying up...
cherry blossoms
1812
like they fell
from heaven...
cherry blossoms
1812
the month's
Mr. Ten and Mr. Nine...
cherry blossoms
1812
he's a mountain
cherry blossom-crazed
old man
1812
as soon as it bloomed
they dug up
the cherry tree
1812
yellow roses--
a horse tied
to an old Jizo
1812
dangling
in the yellow roses
the bull's balls
1812
Sixth Month--
the brutal heat
is no more
1812
over my head
a Sixth Month night
of moon
1812
summer's early dawn--
dwindling night reveals
a willow
1812
nighttime in Edo
is especially short...
it seems
1812
nights growing shorter
a delight...
sweet nostalgia
1812
all the short summer night
hard at work puffing...
Mount Asama
1812
short summer night--
seven villages shaded
by tall grass
1812
short summer night--
little puff-ball flowers
have bloomed
1812
"The summer night
so brief, so brief!"
people and blossoms agree
1812
in the hot day
what's buried there?
crow
1812
a hot day's treasure
they say, little clump
of trees
1812
a bit of joy
on a hot day...
sitting in the kneading tub
1812
fierce heat
in Great Nagoya...
fierce heat
1812
the beards of millet
in good health...
such heat!
1812
a bush warbler hides
in the grass...
such heat!
1812
on Musashi Plain
getting used to the heat...
teahouse smoke
1812
herons in a row--
everywhere the same
cool breeze
1812
a cool breeze
with a moon thrown in...
for five pennies
1812
trailing behind
the cool air...
the month's last day
1812
summer cool--
the puffy clouds
like handballs
1812
when evening falls
the willows of Edo
chill
1812
old age--
even the cool moon
soon grows tiresome
1812
if you unwisely go out
feel it blow...
midsummer east wind
1812
morning's black kite
glides stealthily along...
June rain
1812
a crab hangs on
to a reed--
June rain
1812
Sakamoto--
thatched huts, thatched huts
and June rain
1812
June rain--
not a rock
without azaleas
1812
June rain--
the reedy field
starting to flower
1812
swallows--
children sent forth
in June rain
1812
Mr. Toad--
the June rains
have begun!
1812
the bagworm
has strong karma...
June rain
1812
just three raindrops
and they call it
"A stormy night!"
1812
just three raindrops
"A cloudburst!
A cloudburst!"
1812
rainstorm--
at the edge of the sea
it starts
1812
in the cloudburst
a crane-tortoise-pine-bamboo
attitude
1812
touching the head
of the raining cloud...
plume grass
1812
the cloudburst's
target...
teahouse in a field
1812
the cloudburst's
answer to sunlight...
a night sky
1812
like he's snapping
at the downpour...
gargoyle
1812
standing in the cloudburst
keeping her cool...
maiden flower
1812
a cloudburst--
even His Majesty the Emperor
loves it
1812
rainstorm--
a poor sake bottle
rolls along
1812
the cloud mountain
behind one blade of grass
vanishes
1812
the peaks of clouds
hiding
in the grass
1812
have a festival!
even you little clouds
forming peaks
1812
don't run away
from the sickle moon
billowing clouds!
1812
Musashi Plain--
the flea also heads
for the peaks of clouds
1812
Kisa Lagoon--
a summer moon worthy
of Noin
1812
goddess of spring's
shrine maiden, come out!
summer moon
1812
crossing the river
taking a leak...
summer moon
1812
the hairy bug
becomes a butterfly...
summer moon
1812
the door opens
to Naniwa Bay...
summer moon
1812
summer moon--
there's no such thing
as a flawless night
1812
bush clover leaves
have a deeper meaning...
summer moon
1812
guarded by the goddess
Kannon...
pure water
1812
pure water over moss--
come, pigeons!
come, sparrows!
1812
praise Buddha's
mercy mercy mercy!
pure water
1812
my home village--
even behind the outhouse
pure water gushes
1812
come nightfall
it still gushes diligently...
pure water
1812
in tufted grasses
it rustles again...
rice dumpling wrapper
1812
rustle-rustle
nibbling on a rice dumpling...
a pretty woman
1812
clamorous cormorants
see in the New Year
too
1812
granny's cormorant too
celebrates the third day
of First Month
1812
for the geese and ducks
of this world...
new summer robes
1812
even no-good me
somehow pulls it off...
a new summer robe
1812
the morning willow
is first...
a new summer robe
1812
chanting "Praise Buddha!"
changing into
my summer robe
1812
in the beggar's town, too
in thicket shade
new summer robe
1812
dawn--
through my summer kimono shining
moon in the pine
1812
a catfish caught
in a gourd...
summer kimono
1812
like blue sky
the summer kimono
I'm wearing
1812
a kimono for a sail
rushing along...
little boat
1812
printed small
on the summer kimono
Mount Matchi
1812
like a felled tree
in his summer kimono...
big man
1812
summer kimonos, too
cut to show shins...
festival
1812
in the deep heart
of the tall bamboo...
an afternoon mosquito net
1812
my home village--
from inside my mosquito net
I watch
1812
wildflowers
at full bloom...
her paper fan
1812
shading my eyes
with Saigyo's Mount Fuji...
paper fan
1812
a gift
from the god of the poor...
paper fan
1812
whew!
cooling off in Edo
is also hard
1812
behind my back
fingers rolling prayer beads...
evening cool
1812
the horse's bell
the insects' weaving...
evening cool
1812
nights in Edo
today and tomorrow...
cool air at the gate
1812
on a deserted mountain
pinching fleas...
evening cool
1812
a beggar offers
his services...
evening cool
1812
a soot-grimed Amida Buddha
at my side...
evening cool
1812
the holy hermit
puts on a lined robe...
evening cool
1812
live long!
in your ceremonial robe
enjoy the evening cool
1812
life in town--
while enjoying the cool air
"Praise Buddha!"
1812
the moon departs--
in Kyoto even she enjoys
the cool breeze
1812
night after night--
even the beggarly vine
enjoys the cool air
1812
hey bush warbler
what blooms at the icehouses
of Edo?
1812
in my palm
next to one of my lice...
ice
1812
a day to celebrate
snow country's snow!
a pale blue sky
1812
following behind the fawn
a crow
of Nara
1812
morning after morning
blossoming Fourth Month's
cuckoo
1812
at dawn
Edo's new arrival...
"Cuckoo!"
1812
always around now
from the palace...
"Cuckoo!"
1812
entering Edo
the first voice I hear
"Cuckoo!"
1812
Oyodo Town--
leave in silence
cuckoo
1812
worthy of Sir Cuckoo--
the moon
in the pine
1812
cuckoo--
escaping the palace
at night
1812
cuckoo--
if you don't like the bamboo
stay in the tree!
1812
cuckoo--
azalea clotted fields!
mountains!
1812
cuckoo--
azaleas adorn
my umbrella-hat
1812
oh cuckoo--
swallow blossom-filled Edo
in a gulp!
1812
a good match--
the sickle moon
the cuckoo
1812
don't let Muen Temple's
prayers drown you out...
cuckoo!
1812
mountain country--
why do you dislike it
cuckoo?
1812
the boat departs--
right next to his head
a cuckoo
1812
all our doctrines
just a lot of noise...
to the cuckoo
1812
a mountain cuckoo sings
"Don't fall off
that horse!"
1812
looking down at the village
of white walls
mountain cuckoo
1812
just one reed
for the reed warbler...
Sumida river
1812
hey reed warbler--
it's four or five inches tall
Mount Tsukuba
1812
a reed warbler--
Mount Tsukuba
in a corner of the sky
1812
to the rhythm
of a moorhen's cries...
a cloud speeds by
1812
mocking Mokubo Temple's
prayer gong...
a moorhen calls
1812
old cat
will you catch that snake?
"Hell no!"
1812
reed-thatched house--
no one comes
except fireflies
1812
if a firefly comes
it comes to lick...
lamp oil
1812
a single blade
of grass beckons...
the firefly
1812
kept as pets
by citizens of Edo...
fireflies
1812
he likes the grass
of my umbrella-hat...
flitting firefly
1812
the grass sniffed
by the dog...
a firefly flies
1812
over the crunch-crunch
of my eating...
a firefly flits
1812
"Don't bump your head
on that stone!"
flitting firefly
1812
fly away, firefly
my hut's smoky!
smoky!
1812
called forth
by Mr. Long-Beard...
the first firefly
1812
firefly lights?
though no one comes
the hut is good
1812
a mouth calling fireflies--
one
flies in
1812
evening falls--
to the just-sold grass
fireflies flit
1812
evening firefly--
giving my moxa cautery
a good licking
1812
flit firefly!
to the sound of hands
of hands
1812
one cocoon
in the stone Buddha's
lap
1812
tiger moth--
people acting like people
are hateful
1812
beyond the swarming
mosquitos, the no-good
hackberry tree
1812
one mosquito
flies down my throat...
still whining!
1812
my hut's fleas
how cute!
they sleep with me
1812
a flea jumps
in the laughing Buddha's
mouth
1812
evening falls--
in a big sake cup
moon and a flea
1812
cicadas chirr--
a red leaf
flutters down
1812
"first cicada!"
he says
while it pisses
1812
cooling his butt
toward the lake...
cicada singing
1812
the dog turns
in the cicada's direction...
mouth agape
1812
the morning glories
brightly bloom...
and bonito!
1812
a third day
for citizens of Edo...
summer's first bonito
1812
Sir Whiskers
has first crack
at summer's first bonito
1812
Musashi Plain--
Mount Fuji and bonito
on everyone's mind
1812
big tide--
blooming bindweed clings
to the sand
1812
the bindweed
splish-splash in the tide
blooms anyway
1812
kept cool
by moonflowers...
the Buddha
1812
moonflowers--
home for the spots
of the fawn
1812
blowing her snot
on the moonflower...
a young girl
1812
blowing her snot
on the moonflower...
granny
1812
the moonflowers
get a drenching...
from my spoon
1812
moonflowers--
so swiftly they enter
Osugi Shrine
1812
a big field
by a little village...
poppies
1812
words
are a waste of time...
poppies
1812
the naked child crawls--
the blooming
poppies
1812
like a poppy
how it sways...
front tooth
1812
looks like it's built
on lotus leaves...
the hut
1812
days are becoming
absurdly long!
lotus blossoms
1812
holy Jizo
in the blooming pinks...
dead center
1812
a blooming pink--
the big bee
stings it!
1812
geese and ducks
wipe their feet...
on the irises
1812
dangling from
the young buck's antler...
lilies
1812
all stretched out
the dog naps
in the lilies
1812
evening gloom--
a fawn's spots
on the lily
1812
over the duckweed
one by one in a row...
swallows
1812
duckweed blooms
"Come! Come to the old man's
teahouse!"
1812
the duckweed too
may have prayed...
blooming in the west
1812
"wheat's autumn"--
but in the hut of reeds
"fish autumn"
1812
ripened wheat--
the little field's geese
grow hoarse
1812
home village--
even on a thin post
moss has bloomed
1812
the thicket's bamboo
like all young folk
raising a ruckus
1812
depending on
the young bamboo...
little house
1812
summer's young bamboo--
joyful!
joyful!
1812
smelling the melon
shading his eyes to gaze...
a weasel
1812
I smell melons--
where might they be
katydid?
1812
the year's first melon
big as her head...
baby
1812
the morning glories' rustle
mere extra...
eggplant
1812
caressed by citizens
of Edo...
eggplant
1812
the eggplant I'm growing
in my hut...
a horror!
1812
just one blade
of thick summer grass
works fine
1812
candy lined up
on leaves of bamboo...
thick summer grasses
1812
salty candy
for sale...
thick summer grasses
1812
a candy stand in a nook
of Suminoe...
thick summer grasses
1812
spreading so thick
what an eyesore...
hackberry tree
1812
autumn begins--
in a little pine island's
little nook
1812
the red gems
of a flower's buds...
autumn evening
1812
autumn dusk--
a pretty little bird
passes by
1812
going out to fart
about ten times...
a long night
1812
regret autumn's end
regret it!
ancient pine
1812
for all with children--
a Bon Bon Bon
Festival moon!
1812
earthworms singing
mosquitos on rice cakes...
Bon Festival moon
1812
harvest moon--
my eighty thousand
great saints
1812
autumn wind--
the god of the poor
won't come along
1812
autumn wind--
on the loafer's back
it blows
1812
a crybaby
tagging along...
autumn wine
1812
that red jewel
what seed could it be?
morning dew
1812
at dawn
sprinkled with dew...
Chikuma River
1812
old frog
dewdrops are tumbling
look! there!
1812
true words--
before long we too
are dew on grass
1812
though they fret
amid the dewdrops...
such splendor!
1812
this morning
even my thatched hut
made-up with dew
1812
in the dripping
tip of a dewdrop...
such riches!
1812
taking a leak
adding to the dew...
Kogane Field
1812
this world--
the silver dewdrops
aren't lying
1812
such cool air--
big pearls, little pearls
of dew
1812
a knotweed-eating bug
likes what it likes...
evening dew
1812
all four seasons
dew drips down...
ex-river beach
1812
dew dripping down--
even holy Nyoirin
is thinking...
1812
dewdrop world--
clinging to dewdrops...
cormorant fishermen
1812
a dewdrop world--
dewy pinks
big and little
1812
dewdrops fall
drip-drip, this floating world's
Great Thing
1812
dewdrops falling
drip-drip, this world
is good!
1812
three dewdrops--
Ueno's cicadas
break out into song
1812
bees--
stealing your honey
dewdrops evaporate
1812
blowing a flute
to celebrate the silver dew...
my hometown
1812
on loincloth
and little red flowers...
evening dew
1812
trying to catch
the lightning bolt...
a child
1812
dawn--
Mount Asama's fog on the dinner tray
crawls
1812
on a holy shrine
in tufted grasses...
a singing cicada
1812
the first to arise
a mosquito swarm...
ancestors' altar
1812
even on the ancestors' altar
they wriggle...
maiden flowers
1812
ancestors' altar--
for gnawing silkworms, too
a tea offering
1812
like bonfires for the dead
burning to nothing...
autumn dew
1812
bonfires for the dead--
in every direction
Heike crabs
1812
red string
connects their hands...
Bon dance umbrella-hats
1812
just this year
just this year!
Bon Festival dance
1812
a young potted pine
celebrates too...
Tanabata stars
1812
even the insects sing:
"It's great Tanabata!
Tanabata!"
1812
greeting the stars
of Tanabata
at my hut, pinks
1812
come evening
it's a homeland of blossoms...
Tanabata night
1812
the sumo champion
caresses with his chin...
wildflowers
1812
wildflowers caressed
by his chin...
sumo champion
1812
my hut
and two out-of-sync
cloth-pounders
1812
where were you poked
to make that sound...
mountain deer?
1812
the rear goose--
well, well
a sore foot
1812
hut's evening
sparrows in the bamboo
geese in the reeds
1812
behind me--
it's become a night
of wild geese!
1812
rice field geese
glare at me
as I pass
1812
an uproar--
those wild geese
are the Shogun's!
1812
geese honking--
into Mount Asama's fog
a fire
1812
the wild geese
honking! honking!
about me
1812
from today on
you are Japanese geese...
rest easy
1812
settling back
to dead silence...
rice field geese
1812
autumn's first geese--
from you I could learn
where to sleep
1812
autumn's first geese--
from you I could learn
about travels!
1812
not landing
on the lake...
the geese's plan
1812
aiming their butts
at the evening moon...
rice field geese
1812
cricket--
on the young buck's antler's
tip
1812
gorging himself
on the cat's food...
katydid
1812
a grain of rice
stuck to his cheek...
katydid
1812
come again
I'll lend you my lap...
katydid
1812
the wildflowers
a-buzz with flies
making love
1812
blowing her nose
with a morning glory...
a woman
1812
thatched with
morning glories
my little hut
1812
the puppy's morning glory
has bloomed...
at the gate
1812
just today and tomorrow
for your flirting...
maiden flowers
1812
in this world
no wriggling allowed!
maiden flowers
1812
come one! come all!
the rustling
plume grass
1812
keeping Holy Binzuru
from being rubbed...
a red leaf
1812
evening shadows--
a big red leaf
for divine Idaten
1812
stoppoing the flow
of Heaven's River...
one fallen leaf
1812
just about enough
to cool me off...
fallen leaf
1812
one paulownia leaf
good choice!
it falls westward
1812
one paulownia leaf
then two, three, four...
a downpour!
1812
this morning
one snuck off the tree...
paulownia leaf
1812
for my hermitage
something to write on...
paulownia leaf
1812
snagged by the buck's
antler, one
fallen leaf
1812
dying to the beat
of the prayer to Buddha...
one leaf falls
1812
from the thin curve
of the sickle moon...
one leaf falls
1812
pushing up through
seven feet of millet...
rose of Sharon
1812
roses of Sharon--
for generations
thin smoke rising
1812
the aging gourd
and I
cast our shadows
1812
drainage canal--
dragged off by the water
a mountain gourd
1812
the door latch
rusting deep red...
winter cold
1812
cold day--
in the space above the well
a maiden flower
1812
a cold sun
at the very tip...
wind-cutting charm
1812
Shinano road's mountains
bearing down...
the cold!
1812
two or three
red tree leaves...
bitter cold
1812
all night
a mill's pounding echo...
winter cold
1812
the year's not over
but spring comes anyway...
cats making love
1812
truthfully
it's cold, nothing more!
first winter rain
1812
first winter rain--
songs in the tavern
become ripe
1812
the well bucket
for the "starlings"
first winter rain
1812
tea is steaming
at the mountain temple...
first winter rain
1812
first winter rain--
a mad dash
to the mountain house
1812
while tying up
the maiden flowers...
winter rain
1812
one persimmon
on the tree all alone..
winter rain
1812
the blooming cockscomb
droops listlessly...
winter rain
1812
winter rain--
stomping on the mum
the croaking frog
1812
in winter rain
toward the heart of darkness...
honking geese
1812
the winter rain
hurries to a finish...
little house
1812
clumsily wrecking
the dusk of day...
winter rain
1812
first snow falling--
close your mouth
skillet!
1812
in first snow strutting
to digest his rice cake...
the crow
1812
first snowfall--
atop the rice bag
a little lamp
1812
in first snow
the dog goes first...
two-penny bridge
1812
well here it is,
the place I'll die?
five feet of snow
1812
to my open palms
snowflakes flitting
down
1812
softly, softly
blanketed with snow...
my home
1812
snow falling--
mill-pounding echoes
next door
1812
snow falling--
inside Zenkô Temple
people settle in
1812
on my thin legs
smack! smack!
hailstones
1812
wasted offering--
a crow caws for the god
of wealth's rice
1812
joining the festivities
for the god of wealth...
my hut
1812
secluded house--
sweeping soot
off the dog's head, too
1812
harvest moon--
so much soot to sweep
at Zenkô Temple
1812
Twelfth Month singers--
seven feet away
a little one sings
1812
pounding rice cakes--
now, even I return
to my home village
1812
mountain castle--
even in a little field
gifts of new clothes
1812
red leaves also
stuck where they are...
wicker trap fishing
1812
planting a tree
that will turn to gold...
paper robe
1812
first time wearing it
pulled from a plum tree...
paper robe
1812
at the sunset bell
one ear plugged...
winter quilt
1812
the cricket crawls in
chirping...
winter quilt
1812
the owl laughs
hoo-hoo! hoo-hoo!
winter quilt
1812
in dream world
was I laughing at a turtle?
winter seclusion
1812
set aside the sickle!
blow, wind!
it's brazier time
1812
looking up
from my brazier peerless...
Mount Fuji!
1812
holy hermit--
his brazier cold all
the way to Ueno
1812
driving rain--
father rows the boat
child tends the brazier
1812
what's left
of the crushed charcoals...
my arms
1812
laugh, little Juro
and Goro!
charcoal scale
1812
he beckons
with a charcoal-dusted hand...
old peddler
1812
materializing
above a charcoal fire...
Mount Ogura
1812
happy and well--
the Ise merchant's shop
has a charcoal fire
1812
the bush warbler
alit on it first...
charcoal bag
1812
Mount Saga--
with the natto soup
plum blossoms
1812
my natto shares
my pillow...
my night's sleep
1812
"Come and get it!"
boiled pufferfish
at a Sumida River inn
1812
"Come and get
your boar stew!"
Sumida River inn
1812
were you born
Tenth Month, tenth day?
wren
1812
as evening falls
in Nihonbashi, a chorus
of plovers
1812
spanking the big
chrysanthemum's head...
falling leaf
1812
fallen leaves--
not a single crow
is irksome
1812
even newborn leaves
turned red...
fall like tears
1812
on purple clouds
when will I set sail?
western sea
1812
what a shame!
how many canes prop you up
old pine?
1812
old pine--
you'll reap your karma
in the end
1812
even in the god's tree
a painful nail
is driven
1812
a five-inch nail--
the pine tree
is weeping
1812
what karma will follow you
to the next world?
garden's pine
1812
hey thief
no sitting down there!
old pine
1812
potted pine--
this too flows
from karma
1812
even a priceless
pine tree...
one night's storm
1812
not yet Buddha--
the mindless old
pine
1812
in pine-tree shade
sleeping, eating...
sixty provinces!
1812
well, well
a garden of bamboo...
Ishibatake
1812
swishing bamboo
almost scraping heaven...
such snobs!
1812
even for bamboo
there's nothing but
crookedness
1812
bamboo grove--
here, too, there's no
perfection
1812
an anti-plague charm
on Simon bamboo...
door of the inn
1812
some Simon bamboo
hate sparrows...
sometimes
1812
a thousand years
until the next life?
Mr. and Mrs. Crane
1812
at my hut too
holding a child, listening...
evening crane
1812
are your thousand years
ending today?
song of the crane
1812
the crane descends
for sightseeing...
a charming hut
1812
partaking of
the crane's veggies...
sparrows
1812
is water boiling
in the big kettle?
turtle's nightmare
1812
and how old are you
Mr. Turtle?
Mount Fuji
1812
do tell, turtle
of Future Buddha's tenth
year of the dragon
1812
with a thump, thump
the turtle drags
along
1812
though he's not
walking away...
turtle set free
1812
carry me off too
wherever you like...
beach turtle
1812
the stray cat
makes Buddha's lap
her pillow
1812
filled with shame
flat to the ground...
the thief cat
1812
after three days
you've forgotten me?
stray cat
1812
born in the pines
of Matsushima...
this little nook
1812
pine island--
the same floating world
even here
1812
my dead mother--
every time I see the ocean
every time...
1812
where chickens
waged their war...
now they play
1812
deep inside
of everyone, Mount Asama's
smoke
1813
First Month--
instead of plum blossoms
a blizzard
1813
no customary
New Year's Day
for the slob
1813
blossoms--
from this morning on
29 springs to go
1813
joining
the brushwood fire's smoke
morning's blossoms
1813
gums for grinders
I greet the blossoming
spring
1813
just when my house
has gotten used to deep snow...
spring blossoms
1813
do not think me
a poor-spirited soul...
mankind's spring
1813
a world of plum blossoms
and willows!
mankind's spring
1813
Mankind's Day--
but nothing special
in my rice gruel
1813
back from holiday
the servant brings a friend...
Kyoto
1813
Servants' Holiday--
the great festival shrine
passes by
1813
joining the travelers
on Servants' Holiday...
a huge man
1813
a servant on holiday
behind me says a prayer...
Mount Matchi
1813
lucky beans
and lucky tea
just for me alone
1813
spring at my gate--
the first New Year's greeting
from sparrows
1813
a big kite
rising and crashing...
Mount Matchi
1813
a Kyoto suburb--
even flying kites
is hard
1813
mountain temple--
for the child head-shaved tomorrow
a kite
1813
even the beggar
hopes to get rich...
god of wealth singers
1813
god of wealth singers
come dancing...
plum blossoms
1813
a beggar's New Year's song
too
in the mist
1813
spring begins
so simply...
chestnut rice cake soup
1813
one leaf
for the bush warbler...
New Year's herbs
1813
enough for one helping
spills out while running...
New Year's herbs
1813
dirty nails
facing my New Year's dish
ashamed
1813
heavy rain--
splashing and smashing
Third Month blossoms
1813
blatantly the snow
falls pit-a-pat...
spring peace
1813
off to one side
rain dribbles down...
a long spring day
1813
a thread of smoke
a bit of snow...
a long spring day
1813
the lame chicken
dragging, dragging...
a long spring day
1813
to the beat
of a pheasant's cries
spring dusk
1813
hey spear holder!
don't let the spring
escape!
1813
small talk
down in the cellar...
spring rain
1813
first thing after waking up
spring rain
in my eyes
1813
letting her parent carry
the paper lantern...
spring rain
1813
spring rain--
the uneaten ducks
are quacking
1813
spring rain--
hands turned palms up
for flitting snow
1813
spring rain--
a mouse licking up
Sumida River
1813
in one boat
a horse rides too...
spring rain
1813
take a look,
earthenware Saigyo...
spring rain
1813
the haystack
soaked with rain...
spring breeze
1813
smoking a pipe
by lantern light...
spring breeze
1813
his butt cooled
by the spring breeze
roof thatcher
1813
spring breeze--
purified at the shrine
a dog heads home
1813
spring breeze--
a mouse licking up
Sumida River
1813
spring breeze--
Oman's cloth simply
blowing
1813
spring breeze--
the fence's tea strainer
blowing
1813
crane in the reeds--
this evening's haze
is your doing
1813
night of haze
with a bellyful of rice cakes...
Higashi Mountains
1813
even in spring mist
it's snow-covered...
my home
1813
misty day--
with their eyes sewn shut
geese honking
1813
all is misty
even my eyes!
from this new year on
1813
with the pounding
of a pestle
the mist gathers
1813
don't cry, children!
the red mist
has passed away
1813
western mountains--
which cloud of mist
will I ride?
1813
the moon
in Buddha's bucket, too...
mist-covered
1813
you, too, turn to
heat shimmers...
my thatched hut
1813
heat shimmers--
from inside the rice cake tub
one more
1813
heat shimmers--
chasing the village crow
with a hoe
1813
heat shimmers--
the child's lost chicken
struts in the distance
1813
my hut's snow
not very good
at dying
1813
geese and ducks
honking, quacking it away...
melting snow
1813
Shinano road--
when the snow finally melts
mosquitos whine
1813
come, sparrows
in all four corners the gate's
snow is melting!
1813
the momentous snow
has melted away...
late riser
1813
servants take a break
from their migration...
kite flying
1813
migrating servants--
wherever you go, the same
plum blossoms!
1813
the widow, too
leaves a doll
among the cherry trees
1813
picking herbs--
on my coat a croaking
frog
1813
on the old umbrella-hat
smack! smack!
threshing tea leaves
1813
a mountain crow
helps the fire setters...
little thicket
1813
grass fire on its way
to the hot tub
in the field
1813
the children
make it a playground...
burnt field
1813
as if the villagers
are frozen...
burning field
1813
fire on field and mountain--
at night this world
ain't bad!
1813
where I planted seeds
oh well!
morning frost
1813
the chicken
is standing guard...
my grafted tree
1813
hut's cat
deep in the sake goblet
yowling!
1813
hey big cat
shake a leg!
the wife calls
1813
smeared with flowering
mustard here he comes...
lover cat
1813
O flowering mustard
blow the cat's prowling route
shut!
1813
Kasuga Field--
even the rascally buck
sheds his antlers
1813
may I lend you
a head scarf?
buck after antler-shedding
1813
the buck looks
at cherry blossoms...
shedding his antlers
1813
at my house
there's nothing!
the bird's left the nest
1813
on the tip of the
newly sprouted bamboo...
a baby sparrow
1813
taking turns
guarding the nest...
parent sparrows
1813
the baby sparrow
is allowed to play...
tatami mat
1813
baby sparrows, too
arrive for the Buddha's
morning showing
1813
baby sparrow--
the dust in this hut
is filthy!
1813
in the great bronze
Buddha's nose chirping...
sparrow babies
1813
the bush warbler
makes a face in the smoke...
mountain home
1813
staying behind--
the bush warbler's only
daughter
1813
bush warbler
this fence is reserved
for you
1813
catching the spirit
of the bush warbler's song...
samurai
1813
he seems to have
the bush warbler's back...
sparrow
1813
the bush warbler
not at all concerned...
little gambling shack
1813
while imitating
a bush warbler...
a bush warbler!
1813
hey bush warbler--
why the rush
to go so soon?
1813
bush warbler, don't suffocate
from the pipe smoke!
Edo mountain
1813
samurai--
even the bush warbler
gives orders
1813
sing! sing!
though off key
my bush warbler
1813
trying to sleep--
that bush warbler on the eaves
is a bush warbler!
1813
he's a prince
of a bush warbler!
you could say
1813
arriving with faces that say
it's been a long time...
swallows
1813
seeing Oi River
and then...
a lark
1813
a fishing boat rows
over blossoms...
a skylark
1813
coming down
to eat his lunch...
skylark
1813
bobbing and weaving
the pheasant cries...
big sitting room
1813
pheasants cry--
the sacred mountain's
babysitters
1813
a pheasant cries--
soup steam wafts over
wild grasses
1813
"The shrine in the field
is too red!"
the pheasant cries
1813
around noon a pheasant
strolls through...
big sitting room
1813
"The crow took
the fried rice!"
the pheasant cries
1813
the evening pheasant's
sleeping place...
a little shrine
1813
the evening pheasant
runs then stops...
grass and sky
1813
clamorous
wild geese who saw Edo
returning home
1813
Zenkô Temple, too
quickly passed over...
geese flying north
1813
once again
the deer see them off..
geese flying north
1813
don't go geese!
everywhere it's a floating world
of sorrow
1813
trampling Asakusa's
little Fuji...
a croaking frog
1813
"Hey puppy
come here!" croaks
the frog
1813
uncles, nephews
which are the cousins...?
croaking frogs
1813
in leaves of grass
playing hide-and-seek...
a frog
1813
on a brushwood boat
croaking downstream...
a frog
1813
chin-deep
in the fallen blossoms...
a frog
1813
in his retreat
in the flowering mustard
a croaking frog
1813
enjoying your sex
so shamelessly?
frogs
1813
onto a straw lid
marked "Smallpox"
hops a frog
1813
facing every-which way
frog cousins
and second cousins!
1813
never opening
their mouths in vain...
frogs
1813
at Mokubo Temple
bunking on a flower...
a frog
1813
serene and still
the mountain-viewing
frog
1813
even around here
the world is good!
frogs croaking
1813
thinking my cane's
a balancing toy...
croaking frog
1813
my back-alley home--
five feet of sky
but spring butterflies
1813
morning rain--
a butterfly licks
it up
1813
Suruga Road--
even the butterflies dream
about Mount Fuji
1813
weak tea--
every day the butterfly
stops by
1813
tea smoke--
into the butterfly's face
it blows
1813
a butterfly comes
to my good-for-nothing
hut
1813
amid butterflies
little butterflies
mountain home
1813
a butterfly, a cat
deep asleep...
temple sitting room
1813
an arm for a pillow--
every day the butterfly
visits
1813
lending it
to the sleeping butterfly...
my knee
1813
stray cat
look! the butterfly's
well-behaved
1813
stuck to the dog
curled asleep...
little butterfly
1813
mountain bees
buzz-buzz pass through
the temple room
1813
the big crane walks
with great importance...
violets
1813
hopping over the river
of blooming violets...
pretty woman
1813
like playing cards--
mustard blossoms
at my gate
1813
even the bracken
are like nails...
Kyoto
1813
in grassy shade
looking like canes...
the bracken
1813
for Toribe Field's
holy Jizo...
bracken
1813
even wild rose buds--
all eaten
by people
1813
Kamakura--
who planted these camellias
in olden times?
1813
plum blossom scent--
a house with four walls
can't be found
1813
plum blossom scent--
the voices of children
sound reverent
1813
plum blossoms--
the candy bush warbler
opens his mouth
1813
plum blossoms--
riding a dog
the Peach Boy
1813
secluded house--
enough plum blossoms
for brewing tea
1813
nothing special
to the village dog...
plum blossoms
1813
snatched
by the stray cat...
plum blossoms
1813
plum blossoms
of the field dropped...
naughty dog
1813
someone chanting
the Lotus Sutra...
plum blossoms
1813
waterfall's mist--
even here, off to the side
blossom clouds
1813
tucking himself in
under fallen blossoms
puppy
1813
in scattering blossoms
holding their breath...
sea gulls
1813
fallen blossoms--
the stylish woman leaves
her butt print
1813
riding in a palanquin
the blossom thief!
blossom thief!
1813
blossoming mountain--
come out and play
devil in me!
1813
the old fence too
has Third Month, 10th day
blossoms!
1813
donning my umbrella-hat--
cherry blossoms portend
a lucky day
1813
sticking, sticking
to paper umbrellas...
cherry blossoms
1813
lining the bottom
of the trash can...
cherry blossoms
1813
the cherry blossoms fall--
I apologize to a dog
in passing
1813
cherry blossoms
I waited and waited for...
I'm alone
1813
while viewing mountain
cherry blossoms...
a prayer
1813
evening cherry blossoms
to the prayer gong's beat
scatter
1813
from willow tree
from plum tree comes
the fox!
1813
from the willow
a ghost attacks!
the child
1813
Fourth, Fifth Months--
mist at its peak
on Mount Tsukuba
1813
summer night--
like a lump of fried rice
Mount Fuji
1813
dewdrops spilling--
suddenly the nights
grow short
1813
nights for the blossoms
grow shorter...
and shorter
1813
in the middle of the short
summer night blooming...
azaleas
1813
short summer night--
sister's silkworms
in a feeding frenzy
1813
short summer night--
the silkworms' mouths
chomping
1813
short summer night--
the hairdresser's wildflowers
blooming
1813
short summer night--
an umbrella-shaped flower
has bloomed
1813
in the short summer night
wriggling to climax...
maiden flowers
1813
short summer night--
the frogs croaking
trash talk
1813
the flower that looks
like a wind-chime blooms...
the heat
1813
oh cool cool
evening!
the month's last day
1813
it's a down, down
downtrodden land...
but cool!
1813
the cool, windy moon
is shut out too...
thatched hut
1813
the cool breeze
makes it a house...
my house
1813
what cool air--
snow and ice
two cents apiece
1813
in the cool air
me and flame-drawn
katydid
1813
cool air--
the evening mountain
becomes itself
1813
cool air--
the rain that Hachibei
prayed for
1813
cool air--
like pillows beyond the gate
the mountains
1813
cool air--
again from the west
an evening shower
1813
cool summer air--
so that these rice plants
will blossom
1813
cool air--
a moonlit night fit
for a god
1813
lying spread-eagle
cool
lonely
1813
nothing at all
but a calm heart
and cool air
1813
one after another
they come...
little cloudbursts
1813
two blades of grass
cheer for the cloudburst
I bring
1813
blessings fall
on Mount Togakushi...
a cloudburst
1813
here you come
O divine cloudburst!
cloudburst divine!
1813
little straw mat--
the cloudburst just a spurt
but a good one
1813
perfectly round
the cloud's first
burst
1813
after a cloudburst
of raindrops...
teardrops
1813
a bowl to catch
the cloudburst...
my hut
1813
a summer rainstorm--
scratches
my itch
1813
for the cloudburst
village headmen gather...
five heads!
1813
a cloudburst--
a heroic Benkei-sized
hot pepper
1813
yesterday
were you tricking us?
billowing clouds
1813
a good omen--
in the west, deep red
billowing clouds
1813
don't blow them away
post horse conch!
billowing clouds
1813
on the tips
of my outstretched toes...
billowing clouds
1813
noontime--
about pillow high
the billowing clouds
1813
the swimming flea
thinks to reach them...
billowing clouds
1813
vain clouds
forming vain peaks
in vain
1813
watching the clouds
drifting to sleep...
summer mountain
1813
the bush warbler's
good karma overflows...
pure water
1813
with sudden curves
it wants to sprawl...
pure water
1813
from the azaleas
the azaleas' pure
water
1813
flimsily
the morning glories bloom...
pure water
1813
mountain village--
even the horse bathes
in pure water
1813
new red flowers
have bloomed...
pure water over moss
1813
at my home
Shinano's moon
and pure water!
1813
at the gate
a palm-sized rice field too
has greened
1813
my portion of rice field
turns green too...
evening's wooden drum
1813
my side-field of rice--
the first to turn
green! green!
1813
even under the eaves
human handiwork...
a green rice field
1813
festival--
for whose treasured child
this red fan?
1813
festival--
snapping my fan
wore me out
1813
a flower shaped
like a Bon lantern...
purification ritual
1813
the sea gull
is an old devotee...
river shrine
1813
are you renting a home
sea gull?
river shrine
1813
night fishing--
on St. Jizo's lap
a short sword
1813
moonlight nook--
from the pine's shadow
night fishing
1813
cormorant boat--
her children cry in the window
left behind
1813
sweat drops from cows
from horses...
blades of grass
1813
growing old--
one drop of sweat
soon, another
1813
this day perhaps
even I'll do it...
new summer robe
1813
in our new summer robes
the gate's hackberry tree
and me
1813
the first and best
of Shitaya Ward...
in summer kimono
1813
with a face like he's licked
persimmon paper...
a new summer robe
1813
hating the "four"
of Fourth Month...
the change to summer clothes
1813
stretching out
the hand's wrinkles...
a new summer robe
1813
letting white cloud
into the sleeves...
summer robe
1813
waterfall's mist
crawls into my sleeves...
summer kimono
1813
putting on
the summer kimono...
a perfect square!
1813
in his summer kimono
more and more square...
old man
1813
my home village--
dangling into the mosquito net
wildflowers
1813
festival day--
some treasured child's
red fan
1813
western mountains--
I'm off to play paper fan gliders
under the moon
1813
shading
Mr. Long-Beard's eyes...
a paper fan from Kyoto
1813
like a belt encircling
the mountain's hips...
smudge pot smoke
1813
the smudge pot smoke
is a comfort...
my life alone
1813
my home village--
the smudge pots trailing
mist
1813
even water sprinkled
at the gate costs money...
life in Edo
1813
airing out the bedding--
atop the futon
a katydid
1813
at dawn
cool air is restored...
my house
1813
this evening's
cooling off...
not quite flawless
1813
cool air at the gate--
the evening isn't
soot-grimed
1813
just me
and a stalk of bamboo...
evening cool
1813
feeding on
Old Basho's legs...
evening cool
1813
night after night
this is true Kyoto!
cooling at the gate
1813
where rice field weeds
are thrown away...
they bloom
1813
the bush warbler too
standing guard...
ice house
1813
even the snow
of Shinano! celebrated
on this day
1813
the mountain hermit
under a bundle of snow
Kyoto-bound
1813
snow, fly too!
straight through
the barrier gate
1813
the one-foot waterfall
is also cool...
sweet jelly
1813
little tub--
on top of Mount Fuji
sweet jelly
1813
traveler--
on a mountain he sits
with sweet jelly
1813
from a tub
of sweet jelly it flows...
Minano River
1813
sweet jelly
along with the plume grass
sways
1813
heaping helpings
of sweet jelly laid out...
Mount Matchi
1813
in two or three leaves
of green willow...
overnight sushi
1813
in butterburr leaves
borrowed from Osaka...
overnight sushi
1813
sushi stand--
water splashing down
on Mount Ozasa
1813
shaded by azaleas
from Mutsu...
overnight sushi
1813
evening falls--
vegetarian sushi too
by Sumida River
1813
the moon like a tub
has risen...
"Cuckoo!"
1813
how many gallons
of Edo's rain did you drink?
cuckoo
1813
almost spitting distance
to Edo, eh?
cuckoo
1813
Kiso Mountains--
plowing through the snow
a cuckoo
1813
a little smoke
makes a cloud...
"Cuckoo!"
1813
the young buck's
antlers tilting...
"Cuckoo!"
1813
I hope your busy-ness
isn't contagious
cuckoo!
1813
which, oh which
is your mountain?
cuckoo
1813
heard so rarely
makes it precious...
"Cuckoo!"
1813
even you
have "flea-spotting eyes"...
cuckoo
1813
are you half-asleep?
foolish cuckoo
foolish crow
1813
is everyone half asleep?
prostitute
and cuckoo
1813
is everyone half asleep?
prostitute, horse
cuckoo
1813
cuckoo--
the rain of Great Edo
is sweet!
1813
cuckoo--
you know when it's time
to run
1813
hey cuckoo--
are you scolding
the loafer?
1813
cuckoo--
hot tub steam stirs
as does the grass
1813
don't choke
on the hermit's pipe smoke!
cuckoo
1813
are you trying not to
look at my hut?
cuckoo
1813
in a previous
life, my cousin?
mountain cuckoo
1813
pass your solitude
to me...
mountain cuckoo
1813
so my hut
is your favorite!
mountain cuckoo
1813
on the sign
on my gate singing
mountain cuckoo
1813
even the priceless bush warbler
well!
warbles in summer
1813
toads
with grimacing faces...
all in a row
1813
clinging to
the raftsman's chopstick...
firefly
1813
the raftsman
has had his fill...
fireflies
1813
on the raftsman's chopstick
once again...
firefly
1813
raftsman--
watching fireflies as if
they're to blame
1813
my house's pillar
doesn't suit their taste...
flitting fireflies
1813
thatched hut--
catching and releasing
fireflies
1813
from the plume grass
from the pine
fireflies! fireflies!
1813
it's only natural--
on the mountain where I live
skinny fireflies
1813
an arm for a pillow--
from the nape of my neck
a firefly flits
1813
old wall--
for no reason a firefly
flits there
1813
he flips a page
of the Lotus Sutra...
a firefly flies
1813
Mokubo Temple--
the dog calls, too
fireflies come
1813
don't go, firefly!
even at night Kyoto
is noisy
1813
flit away, firefly!
the teapot's mouth
gapes wide
1813
didn't you hear
me call?
flitting away firefly
1813
my dwelling--
mingling with the mice
pretty fireflies
1813
mosquito larvae--
in a day how many
ups and downs?
1813
morning after morning
a mosquito hideout...
the temple flower
1813
just now
built by mosquitos...
a towering swarm!
1813
mosquitos party
in the rice cake tub...
again a swarm
1813
in the rice cake tub
a swarm...
whining mosquitos
1813
amid the buzz of mosquitos
a bit of red...
wildflower
1813
into the mosquito swarm
take care! take care!
swallow
1813
mosquito swarm--
into my sleeve
they rise
1813
the mosquito swarm
stops for a visit...
the hedge
1813
swarming mosquitos--
if you return tomorrow
stay out front!
1813
mosquito swarm--
there are far better
houses than mine!
1813
swarming mosquitos--
it's a good choice
to stay out front
1813
swarming mosquitos--
under the arms of the pine
a discarded smudge pot
1813
age fifty--
bitten also by mosquitos
of Kyoto
1813
comparing butts
in Kannon's temple...
mosquitos
1813
up my sleeve--
mosquitos are pounding
a rice cake
1813
driven from next door's
smudge pot...
mosquitos
1813
where there's people
there's mosquitos...
admiring the willow
1813
imperial palace--
even in Kyoto's night
mosquitos whine
1813
if you're raising
a ruckus go outside!
hut's flies
1813
swatting a fly
four or five inches away...
little butterfly
1813
my hut's flies
come along too...
returning home
1813
pesky flea
caught in my hand
become a Buddha!
1813
dawn--
to Fuji! to Fuji!
fleas jumping off
1813
hut's fleas--
don't get gobbled
by the fat sparrow!
1813
hut's fleas--
when did you get
so pitifully thin?
1813
though late
I go to greet them...
hut's fleas
1813
the gate's hackberry tree
catches fleas
from people
1813
grassy meadow--
the flea jumps
to points unknown
1813
tired of walking
on my wrinkled arm
the flea jumps
1813
away for so long
but you're still here?
hut's fleas
1813
"Jump away, flea!
they're cutting grass for thatch..."
maiden flower
1813
fleas hopping off
to see...
Matsushima
1813
even flea bites
on the young
are pretty
1813
held in contempt
by fleas and flies...
today too ends
1813
bloated flea
are you walking it off?
up a tree
1813
waking up--
sending fleas jumping
to Sumida River
1813
a scrawny flea
so lively hops around...
mountain home
1813
a good day, eh?
fleas dancing
and hopping
1813
the silverfish scurry
away...
parents and children
1813
go ahead, make love!
make love!
summer cicadas
1813
cicadas chirr--
looking like an umbrella-hat
Lake Biwa
1813
cicadas chirr--
sticking to the sky
Mogami River
1813
cicadas chirr--
my hut, too, becoming
stone
1813
hush cicada!
Mr. Long-Beard
has arrived
1813
temple mountain--
buzzing into my sleeve
a cicada
1813
summer cicada--
even in his lovemaking break
singing!
1813
a life of running away
running away...
summer cicada
1813
mountain cicada--
singing, singing passes through
the big sitting room
1813
the snail-Buddha
curls up
to sleep
1813
snail on the straw mat
has written
"10"!
1813
why
such careful consideration
snail?
1813
my home village--
Buddha's face
on the snail
1813
in evening moonlight
going bare-chested...
snail
1813
to the east
of blooming bindweed...
post horse conch
1813
improving the world
moonflowers, blossoms
in bloom!
1813
soybean prayer beads
rustle...
a poppy blooms
1813
like a cow
the bee buzzes...
a peony
1813
looking like
my bed in the next life...
peonies
1813
looking pleased
sidelong glances
at the peony
1813
too fine even
for Heihachi Teahouse...
this peony
1813
alongside
the beggar's pillow...
lotus leaves float
1813
whose house?
wafting over lotuses
evening's tea-and-rice
1813
the toddlers
put them in sake cups...
lotus blossoms
1813
lotus pond--
with a stuck-up attitude
the beggar's hut
1813
pinks--
one is blooming
thanks to the dew
1813
before
the red dog's yawn...
irises
1813
seaside temple--
among the wood chips
irises
1813
shading the arrowheads
from the sun...
irises
1813
well, well
the day is foolishly long...
irises
1813
trembling
amid the grasses...
an iris blooms
1813
the heat shimmers
in full bloom...
ripened wheat
1813
made-to-order
for the morning glories...
this year's bamboo
1813
joyful!
the fence's little bamboo
at the peak of youth
1813
in heat shimmers
at their peak...
this year's bamboo
1813
"O great Japan!
O world!"
the rustling young bamboo
1813
well, moon
now you have young pines!
young bamboo!
1813
play, pigeons
in my young bamboo!
young bamboo!
1813
it's "young bamboo"
for one night only...
or two
1813
among the young bamboo
not a single one
flawless
1813
for the young bamboo
bold and fresh
green leaves
1813
young bamboo--
the blind dragonfly
carousing
1813
pretty--
the bitter bamboo shoots
swishing
1813
life in seclusion--
guarding the growing
bamboo shoots
1813
shoots of new bamboo--
not one of them
looks healthy
1813
dewdrops spill--
newbamboo shoots
one by one
1813
shallow river--
a dawn moon
melons cooling
1813
in leafy shade
curled up with a melon...
a kitten
1813
if someone comes
change into frogs!
cooling melons
1813
unaware of the thief's
eyes, melons
cooling in water
1813
just one's enough
for deep cool shade...
hackberry tree
1813
a long spring day--
Holy Binzuru and blossoms
of Sleeping Tree
1813
deutzia blossoms--
on the road to Fushimi
a dog
1813
does baby monkey
agree it's getting nippy?
a slight nod
1813
nippy weather--
the meaning of "parent"
sinks in
1813
nippy air--
my admirable evening
in Rygoku
1813
does the monkey understand
"morning cold"?
a little nod
1813
the more I look at
the house of reeds...
a cold night
1813
I rub, rub my ribs
still the night
is cold
1813
how it looks now--
a cold night
on a pillow of stone
1813
potatoes and such
twining 'round my hem...
a cold night
1813
uncle and nephew's
house a crazy mess...
a cold night
1813
now and then
even the fleas sobbing...
a cold night
1813
oh Goddess of Mercy
from this cold night
deliver me!
1813
all at once
hitting the core of me...
night's cold
1813
from the pigeon coop
a face pokes out...
a cold night
1813
lighting a lamp
helps just a bit...
a cold night
1813
night after night
the bug-eating bugs'
cold voices
1813
the off-beat drummer
seems to not feel...
night's cold
1813
bamboo in the window
stirs, night's cold
begins
1813
a mere trifle
for the horned owl on his post...
night's cold
1813
home sweet home
a crazy mess...
a cold night
1813
on Ryogoku Bridge
in both directions...
the cold night
1813
a rain cloud
hides the mountain...
a cold night
1813
now I watch
with careful attention...
autumn dusk
1813
since the day I knew
the word "Parent"...
autumn dusk
1813
my arms and legs
thin as nails...
autumn dusk
1813
the god of death
has passed me over...
autumn dusk
1813
at my hut too
the night turns long...
bottoms up!
1813
night at my hut--
this sinful oversleeping
weighs heavily!
1813
feeling afraid--
nights of so much sleep
are sinful!
1813
wooden clogs
clomp! clomp!
a long, weary night
1813
for you lice
is the night long?
is it lonely?
1813
long!
the night is long!
"Praise Amida..."
1813
a long night--
the devil in me
torments me
1813
"Praise Buddha!
Praise Buddha!"
it's a long night
1813
for you fleas
the night must be long...
and lonely?
1813
stray cat
all the long night is this your job?
yowling
1813
thippity thump!
the fleas this long night
in a fine mood
1813
practicing calligraphy
on my belly...
a long night
1813
from tomorrow on
it's a winter sky...
butterflies, dragonflies!
1813
do you also know
that autumn's ending?
the monkey nods
1813
even plume grass
waves farewell, farewell...
to autumn
1813
looking pretty
in a hole in the paper door...
Milky Way
1813
"Gimme that moon!"
cries the crying
child
1813
the sickle moon
all clouded over...
when I go out
1813
at dawn
the harvest moon...
just barely
1813
the whole night--
no harvest moon
at all
1813
when the harvest moon
appears I notice it...
plume grass cut
1813
harvest moon--
going out
going back in
1813
harvest moon--
in the seat of honor
a katydid chirrs
1813
harvest moon--
after yesterday's
big storm
1813
harvest moon--
in low seats in tall grass
where's everybody?
1813
harvest moon--
in bed I pray
for deliverance
1813
mountain village--
even in my soup
the harvest moon
1813
autumn rain--
in the same boat as people
mountain crow
1813
autumn rain--
I send an unwilling flea
flying
1813
my evicted fleas
have returned...
autumn rain
1813
in autumn wind
escaping on foot...
firefly
1813
in autumn wind
a long stay
in this world
1813
autumn wind--
trampling the grave tablet
a crow caws
1813
the autumn wind
"Not yet? Not yet?"
whispers to my pillow
1813
autumn wind--
a sudden shiver
of horror
1813
shrine maidens--
in Kyoto's sky too
autumn wind
1813
like everyone--
rice cake tub, autumn wind
sliver moon
1813
on my arms and legs
thin as nails...
the autumn wind
1813
blowing on Kumasaka's
great halberd...
autumn wind
1813
his destination
only the autumn wind...
little pilgrim
1813
millet and barnyard grass
taller than the house...
autumn gale
1813
at the dinner tray
dripping weeds...
an autumn gale
1813
a naked baby
and a crow raise a ruckus...
autumn gale
1813
in morning dew
a reaching-the-Pure-Land
lesson
1813
potato leaf--
a rice bowl's worth
of dew!
1813
a shiver
runs up my spine...
dew dripping down
1813
Echigo horse--
sweeping away the evening dew
in passing
1813
to become a dewdrop
I bow
in prayer...
1813
among dewdrops
the butterfly's mood
improves
1813
silver dewdrops
and my companion...
sharp shadows
1813
sucking up
all the dewdrops...
my thatched hut
1813
dewdrops scatter--
soon enough
there go I
1813
dewdrops scatter--
done with this crappy
world
1813
how many dewdrops
have crept inside?
earthen teapot
1813
on two-penny vegetables
the dew...
still not dry
1813
lighting a lamp
it's kind of interesting...
dewy grass
1813
the old wall's grass
trusting...
beads of dew
1813
staying in this world
too long...?
morning dew
1813
morning after morning
my tea tastes better...
falling fog
1813
even from my sleeves
fog rising...
mountain road
1813
the mountain fog
rushes through...
the sitting room
1813
maybe the wagtail
put it there...
lantern for the dead
1813
Tanabata stars
and Musashi Plain...
from my pillow
1813
even the eaves' thatch
chopsticks
of plume grass
1813
in twilight the big
sumo match drum...
Sumida River
1813
the morning glories
bloom so briefly...
scarecrow
1813
field by my hut--
no thank-you ceremony
for the scarecrow
1813
in the rain shower
with a runny nose...
scarecrow
1813
the hackberry tree looks
like a far-off mountain...
evening cloth-pounding
1813
my neighbor and I
have an understanding...
evening cloth-pounding
1813
imitating
the owl's hoots...
pounding cloth
1813
pigeons rising
to take a look...
yumiso dregs
1813
the young buck
craps in the bush clover
and moves on
1813
leasing his antler
to the cicada...
the young buck
1813
Kamakura--
for a quick evening meal
a snipe flies away
1813
a snipe flies--
ducks at the gate
raise a cheer
1813
a snipe flies--
the duck's silhouette
looks foolish
1813
remote village--
even from a horse's trough
a snipe flies up
1813
don't cry, geese--
everywhere, the same
floating world
1813
geese flying south--
the ducks at the gate
cheer them on
1813
the frog enters his hole
in the Future Buddha
he trusts
1813
little straw mat--
a green plant-like insect
singing
1813
stop again!
with your lantern stop!
a green insect
1813
autumn butterfly
on the scarecrow's sleeve
clinging
1813
glared at
by the dragonfly...
the Buddha
1813
the dragonfly
dips his butt...
Sumida River
1813
don't be lazy!
O dragonfly turned
so red
1813
scolding the cricket
in my sleep...
thatched hut
1813
the crickets raise
a ruckus...
another month ends
1813
inside the broom
I'm sweeping with...
a katydid
1813
you be good
and guard the house...
katydid
1813
up to today
such a healthy singer...
katydid
1813
the grain grinder
gives it a scolding...
katydid
1813
still no wife
his voice grows hoarse...
katydid
1813
on the bridge pile
smeared with mud...
katydid
1813
do you think my head's
grass?
katydid
1813
the emaciated grass
totters
into bloom
1813
it's the horseflies'
playground...
chrysanthemum
1813
chrysanthemum blooming
horse-dung mountain...
one scene
1813
evening fall--
wiping horse dung off his hand
with a chrysanthemum
1813
morning glories--
every morning the fleas'
hideout
1813
with one branch
it blocks the gate...
bush clover
1813
bush clover flowers
fall...
on a sleeping deer
1813
my home--
a field with not even one
bush clover shrub
1813
four or five inches tall
cock's combs in a row...
blushing red
1813
one by one
sprouting wildly...
cock's combs
1813
gracing the old wall
all in a row...
little cock's combs
1813
secluded house--
trusting in the Buddha
rice plants bloom
1813
old thicket--
a nook of rice
five or six feet tall
1813
more cutting than my hut's
old sword...
plume grass
1813
woods at the gate--
dying leaves the color
of persimmon paper
1813
doing its best
to just turn yellow...
hackberry tree
1813
persimmon tree--
the color of gold coins
its leaves
1813
persimmon leaves--
once they turn crimson
game over
1813
hitting the paper lantern
thump!
a cherry
1813
after great effort
picking the big chestnut...
a wormhole
1813
grassy meadow--
the helpful child gathers
one chestnut
1813
among the ungathered
chesnuts a beauty...
gigantic!
1813
worm-eaten--
the best chestnut!
the best!
1813
in mountain shade
rest without a care!
nut-less chestnut tree
1813
it's so pretty!
so pretty!
the poison mushroom
1813
looks so pretty--
the man-murdering
mushroom
1813
watch out, kids!
don't let those red mushrooms
cast a spell
1813
now and then
on the post of my hut...
gathering mushrooms
1813
coating
the red leaf...
the cold
1813
just for today
a custom-made cold snap...
Echigo mountains
1813
death-entangling
death-entangling...
winter cold
1813
in my thatched hut
even dreaming
the cold
1813
the festival ends
on a down note...
winter cold
1813
from tonight on
the world will be better...
cold temple bell
1813
dawn--
round as the moon
the tossed-out ice
1813
a bush warbler makes his rounds
eave to eave...
a spring day in winter
1813
today too
on a spring day in winter
a pheasant
1813
the gray starling
rushes his song...
a spring day in winter
1813
heron on a post--
how is your year
ending?
1813
end quickly!
this year, you've been
an evil one
1813
the owl's year
is running out...
atop the pole
1813
misty--
the year's last day
Kan-ei Temple
1813
wherever the wind blows--
on the year's last day
I sleep
1813
evening of the year's
last day...
flitting snow
1813
for our sake enduring
the winter rain...
stone Buddha
1813
winter rain--
I meet my hut's cat
at the door
1813
winter rain--
the night fisherman
with his mother
1813
thatched hut--
the chrysanthemum hit first
by winter rain
1813
spelling "Japan"
in the sand...
the winter rain
1813
taking aim
at the blooming cockscomb...
slanting winter rain
1813
the cotton bolls burst
in secret...
winter rain
1813
winter wind--
wearing a straw bag
on Mount Hakone
1813
rented house--
the village's best spot
for basking in the winter sun
1813
first snowfall--
like my worst enemy
damn you!
1813
the year's first snow
all trampled...
by the crows
1813
the first snow
makes fried rice balls...
of mountains
1813
first snowfall--
bordering the outhouse
Sumida River
1813
first snowfall--
in the tree's shade
a Shinto flute
1813
"First snowfall!"
and then, soon enough
three or four feet
1813
first snowfall
on irises in the eaves
softly, softly
1813
enough to make
a man a scholar...
falling snow
1813
looking delicious
the snow flitting softly
softly
1813
chop-chopping
a mountain of snow...
a man alone
1813
a big snow--
straight above me
the Milky Way
1813
deep snow--
on the signpost
a crow caws
1813
heavy snow--
from the dinner tray's edge
Echigo mountains
1813
geese and gulls
raise a ruckus...
"It's my snow!"
1813
by the light of the snow
under the window...
gambling
1813
Matsubara--
a pony in high spirits
as snow flits down
1813
falling snow--
yesterday it wasn't there
"Empty House" sign
1813
snow falling--
stowing the money scale
in a straw bag
1813
snowy night--
near the hut of reeds
Milky Way
1813
my village bell
heard maybe, deep
in the snow
1813
into the mouth singing
"Come, hailstones!"
a hailstone
1813
fall, hailstones!
with pillow on his head
a child
1813
falling on Kumasaka's
great halberd...
hailstones
1813
for blooming cockscomb
thirty whacks with a stick...
hailstones
1813
come! come!
counting hailstones
as they fall
1813
a serving tray for the bride
on the little straw mat...
hailstones
1813
hailstones--
look! there's one behind
Brother's ear
1813
the child hugs
her cloth monkey...
hailstorm
1813
hailstones falling--
the paper dog, too
going nuts!
1813
one falls smack
amid the marsh tits...
hailstones
1813
smacking the side
of Morito's face...
hailstone
1813
the big chrysanthemum
wears a straw hat...
falling sleet
1813
the gatekeeper sweeps
a pile with his foot...
sleet
1813
up to my doorway
so quickly the fields
have withered
1813
winter rain today
pouring down...
I wear a coat
1813
praise the coat!
praise the Old Man!
first winter rain
1813
at dawn by the plum tree
there's one too...
a monk beats his bowl
1813
Great Japan!
a bird recites a sutra
a monk beats a bowl
1813
admirable!
he beats the gourd
non-stop
1813
a snowball
for his begging gourd...
Jinnojô
1813
the gate's plum blossoms
rob me...
of winter prayers
1813
a cold, clear night--
a winter prayer for the plum tree
too
1813
from here to Suma
festive temples...
winter prayers
1813
temple's great gate--
a return visit
for winter prayers
1813
just one night
to squeeze them all in...
winter prayers
1813
oil bucket--
with an "Amen!" I open
my hearth
1813
preparing the hearth
at Kangakuin...
pigeons and sparrows
1813
cleaning my hearth--
the black kite's
judgmental face
1813
two sleep
at the edge of the hearth
their pillows
1813
daybreak--
Amida Buddha's soot
is swept
1813
my hut's soot--
I go through the motion
of sweeping it
1813
sparrows at the gate
beg for rice...
soot-sweeping
1813
the daffodil too
covered with soot
stands
1813
soot sweeping--
even the turtle by the pond
gets swiped
1813
sweeping soot--
off daffodil, plum blossom
camellia
1813
dumping soot in a thicket--
daffodils, plum blossoms
camellias
1813
soot and dust dumping--
I bow to plum blossoms
and camellias
1813
mountain village--
soot-covered plum blossoms
and camellias
1813
my hut--
I'll get to soot sweeping
by and by
1813
remote field--
hidden in trees, here too
Twelfth Month singers
1813
Twelfth Month singers--
don't kick that baby
behind you!
1813
the Twelfth Month singers
are female...
our Great Age!
1813
women also
are Twelfth Month singers...
our Great Age!
1813
my child's rice cakes
my child's rice cakes...
all in a row
1813
the next batch of rice cakes
is for the crow...
Saiho Temple
1813
on the rice cake tub
a bush warbler!
bush warbler!
1813
on the rice cake tub
the usual bush warbler...
again
1813
pounding rice cakes--
from the eaves a crow
sticks out his head
1813
my child can almost
carry them...
rice cakes for the neighbors
1813
to my home
he seemed to be coming...
neighbor with rice cakes
1813
in the shade
of the rice cake flower...
making baby laugh
1813
next in line
the cat...
gifts of new clothes
1813
whose child has dressed
the crossroads Buddha?
new clothes
1813
year's end fair--
a straw bag on her head
she passes
1813
lucky beans
lucky pickled plums...
yet no teeth
1813
after the demons
have all gone...
bright moon
1813
secluded house--
a toothless mouth cries
"Luck indoors!"
1813
driving demons
into the darkness...
laughing
1813
Takasago--
shouting away demons
a toothless one too
1813
trust, trust in Buddha!
you're a year older too
dog
1813
a year older
the dog and the crow...
headcount
1813
Great Japan!
to drive out devils
to Ise I go
1813
the same color
as his wicker fish traps...
his head
1813
wild geese honking
all night long...
wicker trap fisherman
1813
hanging his sake bottle
on the ivy...
wicker trap fisherman
1813
his shoulder aligned
with the sickle moon...
night fisherman
1813
a thousand mat room
of red leaves...
wicker trap fisherman
1813
two or three bundles
of firewood for the new year...
the grove's decorations
1813
seen in my sleep--
a firewood bundle ablaze
on New Year's Day
1813
to give the plum tree
some company...
sowing wheat
1813
sowing a fistful
of wheat...
temple nook
1813
sowing a fistful
of wheat...
sparrows at the gate
1813
returning home
southeast of Asakusa...
in a paper robe
1813
forty-nine grannies
heading to Shinano...
paper robes
1813
look behind!
carrying a chrysanthemum
wearing a paper robe
1813
doesn't she look
like the Kurazuka demon?
paper robe
1813
"Are these the outskirts
of Kyoto?"
woman in a paper robe
1813
winter rain--
come! come!
my paper robe
1813
"From this tree on
am I in Nara?"
woman in a paper robe
1813
well suited--
down the slope they go
in paper robes
1813
row of houses--
the people in paper robes
hard to count
1813
playing with the god's
sacred monkeys...
paper robe
1813
like in old China
to Yoshino they go...
paper robes
1813
a face pokes out
the winter quilt...
"Hey, vegetable man!"
1813
foolish cat--
yet he knows which futon
is his
1813
won't be long now
I'll hear the wild geese...
futon
1813
the man who left
slept in a ball...
futon
1813
tucking into my futon
just like Dharma
I sit
1813
tucking into my futon
tomorrow's straw sandals
by the pillow
1813
my eyes glaring, glaring--
just like Dharma
in my futon
1813
waking up
to a row of dolls...
my futon
1813
my last resort--
I borrow the cat's
futon
1813
at my dwelling
the lumped-together snow...
foothills
1813
dawn--
with snow I make
Lord Buddha
1813
he rolls thin snow
into a Buddha...
the child
1813
a sparrow chirping
in his lap...
snow Buddha
1813
also growing old
in you I trust...
Buddha of snow
1813
ashamed--
even a child has made
a snow Buddha
1813
first snow--
making a Buddha of you
is hard too
1813
the snow Buddha
likes the puppy
it seems
1813
grow old
at my gate, if you wish...
snow Buddha
1813
naughty child--
instead of his chores
a snow Buddha
1813
my snowball--
the horse
ate it
1813
to the beat
of the snowballs
he tumbles
1813
hurled, it lands
in my sleeve...
a snowball
1813
until the big chrysanthemum's
completely gobbled...
my winter seclusion
1813
he's called
the mum-gobbling bug...
winter seclusion
1813
in Great Japan
women do it too...
winter seclusion
1813
boars and bears
are my neighbors...
winter seclusion
1813
pears and persimmons
left for the crows...
winter seclusion
1813
in my winter seclusion
line of sight...
a little thicket
1813
winter seclusion--
some little pest nibbles
my chrysanthemum
1813
from here to China
resigned faces...
over braziers
1813
come, sparrows!
get warm at my brazier
I'm a great hero!
1813
throughout Japan
resigned faces...
over braziers
1813
in my previous life
good seeds were sown...
my cozy brazier!
1813
on a clear morning
the coal fire in a crackling
mood
1813
more than enough
for Priest Issa...
one bag of coal
1813
morning's charcoal fire--
the mountain's pine breeze
wafting by
1813
whether upright
or crooked it's the same...
charcoal fire
1813
charcoal boatman
from Tsukuba...
head to toe
1813
my pestle, too
for pounding charcoal
has grown old
1813
groping for it
to feed the fire...
coal dust
1813
for one person
it's more than enough...
gathered charcoal
1813
Fukagawa--
one measure of charcoal too
on the ferry
1813
good luck god
come live here, please!
morning's charcoal fire
1813
"O Fudaraku
where waves pound the shore..."
winter's first charcoal fire
1813
though crooked
it's quite a sight...
morning's charcoal fire
1813
in the waiting time
even the dog won't come...
morning's charcoal fire
1813
stuck
to the fish-skewer
a bag of charcoal
1813
just arrived
the old man stays close...
charcoal kiln
1813
the cherry tree
that made blossom clouds
becomes charcoal
1813
from the charcoal kiln
four or five stretch...
sunrays
1813
the charcoal kiln's smoke
puff by puff...
tranquility
1813
charcoal kiln--
the cherry tree becoming
evening smoke
1813
charcoal kiln--
the soon-to-be-cooked
mountain cherry tree
1813
a charcoal kiln smokes--
doesn't feel
like Twelfth Month
1813
look, children!
the old man's charcoal kiln
is smoking
1813
the world today!
even a woman slurps
pufferfish soup
1813
the horse peeks
over his shoulder...
pufferfish soup
1813
no pufferfish soup
for the lackey...
no view of Mount Fuji
1813
pufferfish soup--
turning my back
to Mount Hakone
1813
hey horned owl!
is the year's end
funny to you?
1813
morning after morning
the bush warbler's
singing lesson
1813
hey wren!
do you realize
it's the 30th?
1813
coming to count
my lap too...
the wren
1813
the reed-thatched house--
even on the pillow
a plover sings
1813
basking in the sun
with holy Jizo...
a plover sings
1813
counting the remains
of Kisa Lagoon...
a singing plover
1813
clutching a piece
of Kisa Lagoon...
a singing plover
1813
the outhouse too
in a famous site...
a plover sings
1813
I hear my father
and mother nagging...
plovers
1813
stop crying!
spring's on its way
foolish plover
1813
chopping dried mustard
another sound on Suma Beach...
singing plovers
1813
calmly opening
sleeping eyes a bit...
duckling
1813
today too
keeping perfectly quiet...
little duck
1813
what a pity--
getting used to beans
ducks and gulls
1813
sound of feet--
unfazed by passing people
sleeping waterfowl
1813
sleeping waterfowl--
you too
have Edo spirit
1813
Edo bridge--
unfazed by passing people
sleeping waterfowl
1813
at the far edge
of Great Japan...
waterfowl
1813
Great Japan!
on the country's outskirts, too
waterfowl
1813
so deferential
these waterfowl friends
in fellowship
1813
waterfowl--
long months and days
of silence
1813
waterfowl--
something unpleasant
has you in a huff
1813
are you mad
at the human goblins?
face of the pufferfish
1813
at Lake Hirosawa
catching a pufferfish...
Jinnojô
1813
the red ones
get torn off first...
autumn leaves
1813
just fallen
they posing as soil...
tree leaves
1813
leaves falling
without a sound...
it's cold already!
1813
leaves falling--
the lock on the shrine
is rusty
1813
on the butt of a servant
sprinkling water...
a leaf falls
1813
evening falls--
posing as soil
the fallen leaves
1813
trying to knock down
the "I'm out" sign...
falling leaves
1813
among fallen leaves
cool and aloof...
storehouse
1813
solitude--
under the fallen leaves
my ancestors
1813
killing frost--
behind the wall
Echigo mountains
1813
killing frost--
at Yoshiwara
a little stand of trees
1813
killing frost--
a tea ceremony
on the eaves
1813
in the meshes
of the net daffodils
in bloom
1813
since there's
a house there...
field of daffodils
1813
low-lying village--
at the outhouse, too
daffodils
1813
are you blooming well
daffodils?
at home in the hollow
1813
Japanese tit--
my home's daffodils
are off-limits!
1813
borrowing the umbrella-hat
daffodil, asleep...
little sparrow
1813
daffodils blooming
a lovely sight...
in the hollow
1813
a harbor
of blooming daffodils...
Tanjo Temple
1813
daffodils--
in Edo's Tatsumi
a gaunt priest
1813
daffodils--
and for good luck
a katydid!
1813
such daffodils--
that hermitage
can't be a man's
1813
daffodils
grow into the fence...
Sumida River
1813
daffodils--
I show Kazusa mountains
my back
1813
daffodils--
the old scarecrow
seems busy
1813
daffodils--
suddenly a flock of
fifty sparrows!
1813
daffodils--
committed to bloom
till month's end
1813
daffodils--
Sir Mongaku's voice
was a bell
1813
Sir Samurai
don't forget your umbrella!
daffodil
1813
next year
I'll become a daffodil
of Shinano
1813
playing hide-and-seek
in tea blossoms...
sparrows
1813
bit by bit
trying to blossom...
tea tree
1813
their faces say
"We're from Saga!"
loquat blossoms
1813
announcing
"We're from Saga!"
loquat blossoms
1813
the mountain road's
twisting, winding
heart
1814
hey little snow
it's New Year's Day!
New Year's Day!
1814
for them too
a New Year's feast...
pigeons, sparrows
1814
another year
just taking up space...
my life
1814
First Month--
on the crossroads Buddha
a red skullcap
1814
the brushwood fire's smoke
coaxes
spring's first dawn
1814
my spring
is lucky, lucky!
this morning's sky
1814
now a manly wind
blows...
spring island
1814
spring comes simply
with a pale blue
sky
1814
with that moon
and its halo...
spring has come
1814
hot bath steam--
it's become a moonlit
night of spring
1814
at evening
like washed-out ink...
the year's first sky
1814
a drab color
but it's the year's
first sky!
1814
facing fences--
just three feet wide
the year's first sky
1814
among the pines
just a piece of it but still...
the year's first sky!
1814
row of pines--
in patches between trees
the year's first sky
1814
praying the New Year's god
will heal my weak foot...
again
1814
it's tiny
at my farmhouse...
New Year's bonfire
1814
with a cheer
my hut's New Year's decorations
up in smoke
1814
foot of the mountain--
without a cheer
my New Year's bonfire
1814
this world of ours--
so fast the bonfires
burn out
1814
young grasses
young pine...
my New Year's decoration
1814
fresh straw for the garden!
a sparrow dances
a black kite wheels
1814
fresh straw for the garden--
about ten servants
at work
1814
a present, a present
a New Year's present!
her pink cheeks
1814
my hut--
all morning they come by
for New Year's gifts
1814
just looking at
my year's first water...
Sumida River
1814
Bancho Town--
after dinner flying
a kite
1814
the big kite
cuts a brave figure...
sunset
1814
chasing the kite's tail
'round and 'round...
puppy
1814
in mountain shade too
an Ichikawa kite
rises
1814
on one of Edo's
mountains of rubbish...
picking herbs
1814
the child on her back
points them out first...
New Year's herbs
1814
young folk--
even while picking my hut's herbs
they sing
1814
tree by the gate
the year's first bird song
a foolish crow
1814
"Well, spring has come!"
the year's first
crow
1814
an earthen pot
and an earthen puppy...
spring peace
1814
an offering placard
in the vegetable patch...
a long spring day
1814
in a thorn patch
some paper, to and fro...
a long spring day
1814
the word "of"
written on the wall...
getting dark later
1814
holding a spear
riding a horse...
a long spring day
1814
in a world
where birds should sing nonstop...
spring dusk
1814
a long spring
on a stretched out mountain...
ends today
1814
hey lice--
crawl after the departing
spring!
1814
a light snow
over fields, through woods...
pilgrims
1814
remembering
to fall again...
a light spring snow
1814
a village deep
in the willows deep
in spring snow
1814
potted plum tree
sparrows in bamboo...
spring rain
1814
hey Mr. Scarecrow
look over here!
spring rain
1814
like a proper guest
the dog falls in...
spring rain
1814
spring rain--
pure water for Gion
and Tofuku Temple
1814
spring rain--
an evening pilgrimage
on Mount Matchi
1814
spring rain--
even playing at
eating grass
1814
cheer up, owl!
the spring rain
is falling
1814
behind the thicket
an offering box...
spring rain
1814
for every thicket
every thicket...
spring rain
1814
hot bath steam--
spring rain beyond
the grasses
1814
the horse's paper decorations
feel it first...
spring breeze
1814
with the spring breeze
spring reaches Edo...
the willows!
1814
in the spring breeze
my second pipe's
smoke
1814
spring breeze--
the great courtier
poops in the field
1814
spring breeze--
little thicket, little festival
little pilgrim
1814
spring breeze--
on holy Jizo's lips
a grain of rice
1814
spring breeze--
packed with people
the mountain temple
1814
sticky rice cake
on holy Jizo's lap
the spring breeze
1814
silver water flowing
toward the garden...
spring moon
1814
on an earthen bridge
an offering of sake...
spring moon
1814
steam from my bath
and the moonlight...
springtime!
1814
from the roof's overhang
dripping, dripping...
hazy moon
1814
on the pole I stuck
in the garden...
hazy moon
1814
in the mist
crows are rejoicing...
nothing else
1814
misty evening--
out the back door too
Yoshiwara
1814
a custom-made mist
just for it...
hackberry tree
1814
gambling in the field
a sermon in the thicket...
one mist
1814
one soars
released from the mist...
hackberry tree
1814
snatching a sticky rice cake
in the mist...
crow
1814
even in the mist
my village
is a mess
1814
from the face
of the man yelling for me...
mist
1814
in heat shimmers
the cat snores
deeply
1814
heat shimmers--
off the verandah tumbles
the half-asleep cat
1814
the snow melting
now flows away...
Chikuma River
1814
without fanfare
the great snow has left...
mountain
1814
about ten cooking pots
upside-down...
snow is melting!
1814
the round patches
the square patches...
snow floats away!
1814
in the remote village
snow melting also
is not easy
1814
snow melting
the village brimming over...
with children!
1814
in my province
nothing blooming yet...
spring equinox
1814
across the wide plain
a migrating servant
in a palanquin
1814
migrating servant--
behind him blessings
of Mount Hiei
1814
every house on the street
celebrates the festival...
clay dolls
1814
today
even in the mountain hut
rice cake for a doll
1814
thatched hut--
on the doll's face dripping
rain
1814
a shelf of dolls
and pipe smoke...
one scene
1814
remote village--
they pound rice cakes
for their dolls
1814
oh sake cup
don't go floating away!
a sickle moon
1814
the chicken tries
walking on it first...
lid on the sunken hearth
1814
even while yawning
she keeps on singing...
picking tea
1814
Shigaraki--
even the high priest sings
a tea-picking song
1814
in the thicket
behind the house, silence...
no one picking tea
1814
make love, crows
while you can!
burning fields
1814
children and frogs
raise a cheer...
the field on fire
1814
following a cloud
he plows...
the mountain's hip
1814
mocking the farmer
plowing, the strutting
crow
1814
he plows his field
an arm's length away...
sea of grebes
1814
plowing the field--
a shower of mountain
cherry blossoms
1814
such yowling
don't turn to stone!
lover cat
1814
the lover cat
strangely on edge
wanders off
1814
plum trees are eyesores!
cherry trees have thorns!
cats in heat
1814
with a voice
like a temple bell...
the lover cat
1814
the lover cats
bluntly go
their separate ways
1814
the lone orphan sparrow
nice
and plump
1814
come! come here!
digest your food
baby sparrow
1814
temple visit--
don't choke on the pipe smoke
baby sparrow!
1814
baby sparrows
safely hidden...
holy Jizo's sleeve
1814
"Come to the bamboo!
Come to the plum tree!"
mother sparrow calls
1814
flock of sparrows--
and not one of them
a stepchild
1814
coming to play
with me...
orphan sparrow
1814
a red berry
in its beak posing...
bush warbler
1814
the bush warbler
drinks and bathes...
sewage canal
1814
in the bush warbler's
song, steam
from the Buddha's rice
1814
bush warbler--
only an off-the-cuff
song
1814
the bush warbler's
"I'm perfect" face...
Kyoto's mountain
1814
flitting about
the bush warbler makes a living...
a rural bird
1814
bush warbler--
just a run-of-the-mill
face
1814
bush warbler--
just a run-of-the-mill
voice
1814
a bush warbler--
plum trees in the countryside
should be blooming
1814
a bush warbler--
touring the countryside
should be fun
1814
the bush warbler
doesn't bow...
plum trees in bloom
1814
bush warblers--
country accents, too
in the morning sky
1814
a bush warbler wipes
his muddy feet...
plum blossoms
1814
hey bush warbler
sing! sing!
the town's far away
1814
sing! sing!
off-key bush warbler
at my window
1814
Yamazaki--
the bush warbler from the mountain, too
a third-class guest
1814
my friend's widow--
a bush warbler!
a bush warbler!
1814
dangling over
the fresh-planted tree...
a swallow
1814
wake up! wake up! my children--
swallows, pigeons
sparrows
1814
swallows--
these peach blossoms belong
to you
1814
flying swallows--
as if there's no turning back
for them
1814
not much of a flyer
my hut's
swallow!
1814
their cute butts suddenly
all in a row...
swallows
1814
before dinner
off to Kyoto and back...
swallows
1814
at my hut, first thing--
the healthy face
of a swallow
1814
people call it
"empty belly" hunger...
morning lark
1814
people scatter
like ants...
the lark sings
1814
over Musashi Plain
only one...
skylark
1814
from the gate sentinel's
flowerpot...
a skylark!
1814
the rear of the thicket
still dark...
a lark sings
1814
a late riser
he's slow to leave my window...
pheasant
1814
splish splash
across the shallow river...
a pheasant!
1814
laying out my big mat
I make a pheasant
cry
1814
from the bucket
on the big roof...
a pheasant
1814
on the rice cake tub
tail hanging
the pheasant cries
1814
go wake the pheasants
in the field!
crying pheasant
1814
"Blossoms are falling!
falling!" the pheasant's
night cry
1814
Sir Whiskers gets an earful--
on tiptoe
the pheasant cries
1814
as if it just spotted
a star
the pheasant cries
1814
in Holy Binzuru's lap
sound asleep...
a pheasant
1814
sticking their necks
into the temple hall
pheasants sing
1814
mountain pheasant
are you calling the wife?
scolding her?
1814
mountain pheasant--
is that your wife-calling
voice?
1814
how did the pine
of Karasaki look?
returning geese
1814
all in a huff
seeing my face...
migrant goose
1814
piddling on the mat
as he flees...
croaking frog
1814
in grassy shade
acting stuck-up...
a frog
1814
lording over
the scattering blossoms...
a frog
1814
in the vegetable patch
his wife hides...
croaking frog
1814
like he just now
spotted a star...
croaking frog
1814
for me all alone
his sober face...
a frog
1814
granny drying her hair
and a butterfly...
one straw mat
1814
the big rain
gushing down
little butterfly
1814
it bobs and weaves
for hide-and-seek...
little butterfly
1814
the buck's antlers
her playmate...
little butterfly
1814
butterflies flitting--
the river laughing
ha-ha-ha!
1814
a butterfly
stuck fast to Amida
Buddha's cheek
1814
crestfallen
by the scattering blossoms...
little butterfly
1814
flitting butterflies--
thirty three thousand
three hundred!
1814
my muddy foot
left to the butterfly
I sleep
1814
vegetables! plum blossoms!
butterfly dances
from one to another
1814
spring butterfly
at the big sake cup...
sip again!
1814
blooming
with butterflies
the dead tree
1814
to wheat field, to vegetable patch
the little butterfly
dances
1814
fleas thumping
and the gnawing, gnawing
silkworms
1814
they're off to play
in Yoshino...
my hut's bees
1814
in heat shimmers
his mouth clacks shut...
clam
1814
no telling which
are poisonous...
new grasses
1814
conquered
by the young grasses...
my hut
1814
new grass growing--
a masterful
leaf arrangement!
1814
lovely--
even the meadow grasses
hit their peak young
1814
on their way to becoming
herb cakes
grasses turn green! green!
1814
from the rice cake tub
from the basin...
violets
1814
rape seeds cast
pell-mell too...
have bloomed
1814
needle-like stems
of mustard have flowered!
flowered!
1814
buds in the thicket
that people missed
eaten by deer
1814
to the hand
playing a game of jacks...
a camellia
1814
I call dibs
on the red ones!
plum blossoms
1814
plum blossom scent--
a hazy memory
of my granny's house
1814
silence in the village
of nondrinkers...
plum blossoms
1814
facing
the beggar's window...
plum blossoms
1814
the valley's plum trees
in a flash deign
to bloom
1814
my home village--
a wrinkled old woman's
plum blossoms
1814
mountain village--
a stroke of rare luck
these plum blossoms!
1814
I'm the type
who'd rather have dumplings
than blossoms
1814
my sweetheart's hut--
lost amid blooming
blossoms
1814
no favorite
blossoming tree's shade
for me
1814
little thief--
from deep in the blossoms
he comes
1814
in scattering blossoms
sin and karma...
white hair
1814
in scattering blossoms
holding out his bowl...
holy man
1814
even blossom viewing
becomes a chore...
growing old
1814
mountain village--
a temporary toilet
in blossom shade
1814
like me they're
bad at dying...
blossoms at the gate
1814
something behind me
tingles my spine...
cherry blossoms!
1814
straw sandals for sale
dangle...
cherry blossoms
1814
in one of great Edo's
little nooks...
cherry blossoms
1814
the cherry blossoms
that stirred me, shade me
no more
1814
only this year
this year, blooming!
old cherry tree
1814
this corrupt world
plastered
with cherry blossoms
1814
cherry trees in bloom--
oh great Japan!
Japan!
1814
though less
than three feet tall...
cherry blossoms
1814
falling to my back
spread eagle...
cherry blossoms!
1814
leaning on the fence
it flowers...
cherry tree
1814
Mr. Long-Beard's
hoe stand...
blooming cherry tree
1814
hearing people's voices
they blush...
evening cherry blossoms
1814
leisure time--
in cherry blossom shade
picking fights
1814
the lost child
clutches them tightly...
cherry blossoms
1814
Mutsu province--
even in a haunted place
cherry blossoms
1814
I've caught
a peach, willow, cherry
tree cold!
1814
mountain cherry tree
with bark peeling...
in bloom
1814
mountain cherry blossoms
fall! fall!
enough to fill my belly
1814
lord of the mountain's
cherry blossoms...
stone Buddha
1814
evening falls--
even for a clumsy "Praise Buddha!"
cherry blossoms scatter
1814
the sleeping puppy
gnaws
on the willow
1814
willow at the gate
strokes his sour
face
1814
like peaceful Kannon
the man sleeps...
willow tree
1814
looking dejected
next to Mount Fuji...
willow tree
1814
while napping
swish-swish stroked
by the willow
1814
viewed between
the plowman's legs...
willow tree
1814
a willow droops
and also drooping...
Shimosa mountains
1814
Sixth Month parasols
all sky blue...
Higashi Mountains
1814
dawn comes quick
to their crowns...
Higashi Mountains
1814
"Dawn's coming quick!"
cries the town crier...
sparrow
1814
my nights of carousing
over so soon!
so soon!
1814
short summer night--
for seventeen years
one long sleep
1814
moving clouds--
step by step, so soon
the dawn
1814
hot day--
one pine for lumber
stands alone
1814
appreciating
the hot night...
sound asleep
1814
the teahouse lamp's
flame growing thinner...
heat abates
1814
the bagworm's
hot summer misery...
misery!
1814
one blade of grass
the cool wind
lives
1814
a water drop in grass
fresh-made...
cool wind
1814
the number one
best cool breeze...
outhouse
1814
the cool breeze
slips in slantwise...
my house
1814
cool air of Edo--
today, tomorrow
that's all
1814
cool air--
even digging in a field
hot steam
1814
old thicket--
the source of the cool
evening wind
1814
evening cool--
tossing water on the
horse's rump
1814
becoming demons
becoming Buddhas...
the midsummer clouds
1814
the grass cutter's
splish and splash...
June rain
1814
in June rain
splish-splash the strutting
crow
1814
on one boat
all the wildflowers!
June rain
1814
this cloudburst
a gift from Suma Village...
engulfing us
1814
the bamboo fence's
big cloudburst...
a boiled water taste
1814
all too often--
the cloudburst just
a spurt
1814
from the west
from the north
cloudbursts taking turns
1814
evening falls--
replacing
the cloudburst
1814
rainstorm--
the three-penny flower too
trembles
1814
rainstorm--
waking up alone
on a little pine island
1814
now the cloudburst
only a pitter
patter
1814
did you emerge
from the rice plants?
billowing clouds
1814
coming to grow our rice--
big clouds
little clouds
1814
one by one
they rise and form...
peaks of clouds
1814
cool air--
cloud mountain peaks
and hills
1814
"Look! that cloud
looks like Mount Fuji!"
the crow caws
1814
one breeze
reaches the cellar...
summer moon
1814
summer mountain--
a world
of flowerless vines
1814
summer mountain--
a flower even Buddha
would hate
1814
straw sandals for sale
hang in the pine...
pure water over moss
1814
the stingy farmer's rice field--
the first
to turn green
1814
three men
use it for a pillow...
green rice field
1814
lording over four
or five rice plants...
my house
1814
a good omen--
the green rice field's master
crawl outs
1814
firefly, are you planning
to sleep here?
bucket of summer flowers
1814
the little fence too
looks feminine...
plucked summer flowers
1814
cloud and fog
move aside! voices
descend Mount Fuji
1814
cool air--
just five feet tall
this Mount Fuji!
1814
because it's Mount Fuji
the heron's stride
is long
1814
though I can straddle
this Mount Fuji...
cool grass
1814
traveling crow
at Edo's purification...
how many years?
1814
hey frogs
why the grumbling?
evening purification
1814
about ten frogs
in a row...
shrine boats
1814
the first one through
is the swallow...
purification hoop
1814
the dragonfly, too
works late...
night fishing
1814
my nights of pleasure
are ancient history...
new summer robe
1814
the dandelion gives
a nod...
my new summer robe
1814
like everyone else
I change to summer garb...
linen robe
1814
row of houses--
sticklers for propriety
in their new summer robes
1814
even he loses
his world-weary expression...
new summer robe
1814
called a crybaby
she starts crying...
summer kimono
1814
western mountains--
in summer kimono
trusting in the gods
1814
feeling chilly
a butterbur leaf for a hat...
summer kimono
1814
arranged crookedly
on an old keg...
summer kimonos
1814
I put on
my summer kimono, so quickly
wrinkled
1814
perfectly black
the big priest's
parasol
1814
living in a storehouse
like a pond snail
in my mosquito net, alone
1814
the fifty year-old son-in-law
hides his head...
paper fan
1814
two hundred dinner trays
in a row...
fans fanning
1814
it crawls
to the sparrows' bed too...
smudge pot smoke
1814
airing out the bedding--
he's blown away, still singing
katydid
1814
it's time to go
time to go!
cool air at the gate
1814
she shaves a side of his head
while he nurses...
cool evening
1814
mother cools off--
the Buddhist temple's
festive sash
1814
in a remote village
they're used to poverty...
evening cool
1814
hidden in trees
praising Amida Buddha...
rice planter
1814
in the thicket
a sparrow also sowing...
millet
1814
over chilled water
they gossip...
a sickle moon
1814
drinking water bucket
at the gate, first
the sparrow bathes
1814
jumbled together--
mother deer and fawn's
sleeping faces
1814
partaking
of the cloudburst...
a fawn
1814
bats are flying--
let's go, then
to Ryogoku Bridge!
1814
remarkably peaceful
its face...
the molting bird
1814
mother bird molting--
her babies hide
when she calls
1814
molting birds--
which one is father?
mother? child?
1814
don't go, bird!
you'll grow pretty feathers
soon enough
1814
through the great red gate
no fear...
cuckoo
1814
to Edo, to Edo
off you go!
cuckoo
1814
the gate's tree too
in good health...
cuckoo
1814
in this rain
we ain't going anywhere...
cuckoo
1814
don't disdain
my worldly hut
cuckoo!
1814
don't bump your head
on that sickle moon!
cuckoo
1814
day before yesterday
yesterday, today...
mountain cuckoo
1814
on the lucky Eighth Day
of Fourth Month...
a mountain cuckoo
1814
"This way to hell,
pilgrim!"
mountain cuckoo
1814
when I'm dead
sing my requiem
mountain cuckoo!
1814
like warbling pure
haiku
mountain cuckoo
1814
"In the world of man
there are no blossoms!"
mountain cuckoo
1814
taking credit
for the cool breeze...
reed warbler
1814
is that next one
my pine island?
reed warbler
1814
the back yard suits
the reed warbler...
thatched hut
1814
at the market
with all his might
firefly flits
1814
the dog sparkling
with fireflies...
sound asleep
1814
sound of a horse
gobbling grass...
fireflies flitting
1814
come, firefly!
on one blade of grass
evening dew
1814
farmland--
though it's a horse calling
fireflies come
1814
dewdrops sprinkle--
don't run away
first firfly!
1814
flitting firefly--
are you counting
the eggshells?
1814
first firefly--
the sky over Kyoto
is smoggy!
1814
people's voices--
with all their might
the fireflies flit
1814
in the Old Quarter
without rhyme or reason...
fireflies
1814
go, firefly!
rush off when people
calls for you
1814
dawn--
where are you off to work today
mosquito?
1814
through a hole
in the mosquito swarm...
Kyoto
1814
mosquito swarm--
even you
have a narrow home
1814
without the column
of mosquitos...
a bit lonely
1814
driven from many houses
here they come...
mosquitos
1814
my hut--
only the column of mosquitos
isn't askew
1814
catching flies
with his mouth...
his only talent
1814
while swatting a fly
"All praise to Amida
Buddha!"
1814
I sing the praises
of my fly-catching
house cat!
1814
don't chase, don't chase
children!
that flea has kids
1814
though it's cramped
practice your jumping!
hut's fleas
1814
borrowing the crossroads temple
from fleas and mosquitos
I sleep
1814
borrowing my hut
from fleas and mosquitos
I sleep
1814
evening comes--
skinny kids and fleas
thrive
1814
the cicada chirrs
on the grazing horse's
cheek
1814
chirring of summer cicadas--
this world
is all theirs!
1814
first cicada--
on the horse's head
a quick song
1814
little snail
look! look!
at your shadow
1814
little snail--
for the red flower
not even a glance
1814
look! they've lined up!
little bean-sized
snails
1814
dayflowers--
even digging in a field
hot steam
1814
dayflowers--
a loincloth airing
on a post
1814
kept cool
by the moonflowers...
my pillow
1814
in the soup bowl
suddenly the moonflower's
glow
1814
a hundred lives--
moonflowers
under the trellis
1814
among moonflowers
their butts aligned...
they sleep
1814
moonflowers
hiding my poverty
have bloomed
1814
moonflowers--
for the festival guest too
a straw mat
1814
even the cat
who ate her kittens...
look! poppies
1814
unfolding to the rhythm
of washing feet...
lotus blossoms
1814
the cemetery guard
dries his loincloth...
lotus blossoms...
1814
move aside
cloud and fog!
lotuses are blooming
1814
move aside
butterflies and birds!
lotuses are blooming
1814
turning a cold shoulder
to the lotus pond...
outhouse
1814
the young buck's
mouth can't reach...
the iris
1814
swallows join in
the festival...
irises
1814
at my hut
an iris with the tiniest
blossoms
1814
the big horse's mouth
can't quite reach...
blooming irises
1814
the mist 'round here
in full bloom...
ripened wheat
1814
lording over
the black wheat ears...
village dragonflies
1814
ears of wheat--
with back-breaking effort
the little butterfly
1814
moss is blooming!
sparrows come
to hear me brag
1814
what a racket!
for bamboo and plume grass
the peak of youth
1814
greens! bamboo!
now enjoy their youth
at my hut's gate
1814
even the skinny bamboo
young and fresh!
charming!
1814
young bamboo
hiding the mountain...
Iruma River
1814
keeping bamboo shoots
company, blooming
red flower
1814
perfectly still
the new red leaves...
Buddhist temple
1814
at the crossroads guard's
window and paper door...
fresh leaves
1814
why are you like this
new red leaves?
so flimsy!
1814
lying down to nap--
on my belly
a fresh green leaf
1814
on the old fence
to no avail...
fresh leaves
1814
for three neighbors
across the way...
fresh green leaves
1814
even new leaves
are shady characters...
potted tree
1814
fresh leaves again
make it hateful...
hackberry tree
1814
home village--
my summer grove is small
but it's mine!
1814
the puckery persimmon tree's
reluctant
blossoms
1814
deutzia shrub--
among gods and beggars
it blooms
1814
deutzia blossoms--
a big festival
in beggar-town
1814
the deutzia blossoms
utterly drenched...
bright moon
1814
not knowing
autumn has begun...
a child Buddha!
1814
"First autumn morning!"
just saying it...
lonely
1814
are you aware
that autumn has dawned?
meadow butterfly
1814
the cause
of this nippy, nippy air...
the fence
1814
nippy air--
the usual punishment
strikes
1814
nippy air--
even holy Nyoirin
looks listless
1814
sleeping mat--
so nippy cold
I forget the lice
1814
mountain pears
going thump! thump!
a cold night
1814
only the nuts
of Kumasaka's pine remain...
a cold night
1814
shock to the system--
a cold night
a roof of thatch
1814
the monkey rides
his mother's back...
a cold night
1814
practicing calligraphy
on my belly...
a cold night
1814
by the way
he's swaddled you know...
night is cold
1814
another year closer
to sixty...
the cold night
1814
spoonbill, you walk
through that water
like it's chilly!
1814
cactuses--
a facelessly dull
autumn evening
1814
outdoor kabuki
in the autumn evening's
dead center
1814
writing with a finger
in the clear blue sky...
"autumn dusk"
1814
instead of morning glories
unfolding...
autumn dusk
1814
crabs jam themselves
into the reeds...
autumn dusk
1814
when heading to Edo
Edo, Edo!
autumn dusk
1814
the wolf too
peeks out his hole...
autumn dusk
1814
from the grasses, too
milk flowing!
autumn dusk
1814
with cedars for a roof
the piss bucket...
autumn dusk
1814
enchanting walk
among stacks of rice straw...
autumn dusk
1814
stretching my legs
toward Musashi Plain...
autumn dusk
1814
rain shower--
for granny's evergreen too
autumn dusk
1814
even for the mud turtle...
autumn ends
autumn ends
1814
flowing through the gate
to my little hut...
Milky Way
1814
my stars--
a gang of old men
in the Milky Way
1814
harvest moon--
Shinano mountains like
fried rice balls
1814
Mokubo Temple
covered in vomit...
tonight's moon
1814
grassy thicket--
with coins of gamblers
a harvest moon
1814
only half there
but still the harvest moon!
harvest moon!
1814
autumn wind--
are you crows having a festival
in that field?
1814
autumn wind--
it's big as a horse
this gourd!
1814
autumn wind--
sawing the teeth of a comb
a hermit
1814
autumn wind--
the loafer's blank
expression
1814
autumn wind--
the mountain's shadow
is trembling
1814
the autumn wind
twisting and turning
enters my gate
1814
blowing on
such a world of liars...
autumn wind
1814
with a big city
attitude...
the autumn wind
1814
will these old knees
journey on?
autumn wind
1814
the red sake cup
overflowing...
autumn gale
1814
in this world
unprayed-for autumn gales
surely blow
1814
in the morning glories
how many cups?
morning dew
1814
by your size you must
be a younger brother...
pearl of dew
1814
don't mope and moan!
tomorrow brings
tomorrow's dewdrops
1814
the silver dew
becoming round, this too
takes work!
1814
silver dewdrops--
beggar-town has festival
guests
1814
silver dewdrops--
with a bellyful of tea
crossing Mount Utsu
1814
simply trust! trust!
dewdrops spilling
down
1814
splashing dew--
the official stamp
of Great Japan
1814
dewdrops scatter--
today, too,
sowing hell seeds
1814
pearls of dew--
whichever way you tumble
is happy
1814
dew falls softly--
life so short
so short...
1814
even a thief
feels your sorrows...
evening dew
1814
drink! eat!
dewdrops splish-splash
splashing
1814
butterbur leaf--
about enough morning dew
for a rice cake tub
1814
thin smoke rises--
tomorrow's dewdrops
tomorrow
1814
not at all aware
that life's dewdrop
is fading...
1814
starved garden--
a fitting locale
for autumn dew
1814
evening and morning
it's all dewdrops...
this world
1814
a good world?
dewdrop
dribbling down
1814
to this world
dripping to be seen...
dew on grass
1814
thick-grown weeds--
among dewdrops a miller
singing
1814
a peaceful world
of eating and sleeping...
autumn dew
1814
lightning strikes!
I'm afraid
to die
1814
in the lightning
how he laughs...
Buddha!
1814
the lightning
powerless to strike it...
thatched hut
1814
lightning flash--
his absentminded
expression
1814
the morning mist
scarcely clears away...
mountain home
1814
from the great bronze
Buddha's nostrils...
morning fog
1814
pouring out
the hanging temple bell...
fog
1814
mountain fog--
the gargoyle demon
devours it
1814
the great god's
monkeys are playing...
autumn mountain
1814
the more night falls
the more autumnal
the mountain
1814
night after night
like pillows...
the autumn mountains
1814
the baby monkey
puts it to good use...
field of flowers
1814
at the ancestors' altar
a grandchild's laughter
offered up
1814
ancestors' altar--
in the seat of honor
a katydid chirrs
1814
"Marvelous Law" written in fire--
but a black spot
a crow
1814
do you celebrate
Tanabata too?
rustling mulberry leaves
1814
on Tanabata Night
hidden it blooms...
maiden flower
1814
Tanabata Night--
straight from the heavens
maiden flowers
1814
a flute stuck
in his loincloth...
Tanabata stars
1814
the treasured child's
wormy scribbles...
mulberry leaf
1814
up in the Heavens
the Bridegroom Star!
Bridegroom Star!
1814
O Bridegroom Star
look! piles
of blossoming rice
1814
the Bride Star
has funny manners...
tonight's rain
1814
a rogue firework
explodes too...
autumn festival
1814
in this world today
fireworks...
bigger and bigger!
1814
the sumo wrestler
has come from afar...
parents' grave
1814
not treading on the shadow
of the tomb's tree...
sumo wrestler
1814
seems like the owl
is laughing!
outdoor sumo match
1814
that gentle
moon-gazing face...
a scarecrow
1814
absent-minded
I'm the scarecrow's
replacement
1814
scarecrows standing--
three, four, five, six
houses for rent
1814
inspecting the red leaves
of Mount Tachida...
a scarecrow
1814
nowhere, nowhere
can a young scarecrow
be found
1814
take pity
on the flitting butterfly...
scarecrow
1814
at evening's bell
the fields are crowded...
with scarecrows!
1814
rain falls--
a night for pounding
the monk's rough clothes
1814
stirring the potato vine
from behind...
cloth-pounding
1814
night on Mount Uji--
wooden temple drums
and evening cloth-pounding
1814
the dog too
runs out to play...
pounding cloth
1814
in the tree by the gate
a widow crow...
evening cloth-pounding
1814
Tama River--
in the temple's cool evening
pounding cloth
1814
hush, pigeon!
now the monk's rough clothes
are pounded
1814
I offer it
to an earthenware Rikyu...
yumiso soup
1814
my feet for a pillow
and my hands...
the friendly deer
1814
calling for a wife
the deer is no
spring chicken
1814
if you were human
you could be about fifty...
mating deer
1814
voice of authority
on the imperial mountain...
a shrike
1814
shrike's call--
my hut
is crushed
1814
a shrike's voice--
did your bag of patience
break?
1814
shrike's call--
"Return to life
pine tree!"
1814
imitating
the barrier guard's voice...
shrike on a branch
1814
mountain ridge--
with a know-nothing face
a snipe flies away
1814
green insect
and brown insect...
a duet
1814
green insect, black insect
which will lose
the singing match?
1814
the cricket
"Cricky! Cricky!"
brags about his beard
1814
that thicket
is reserved for you...
katydid
1814
the katydid
wagging his beard
is singing
1814
running away
snatching a bite of melon...
katydid
1814
gambling in the field--
in the pot
a katydid!
1814
the sparrows
go about their business...
wildflowers
1814
never saying die
that little wildflower
blooms too
1814
big chrysanthemum
despite its undefeated
demeanor...
1814
off in a corner
last year's champion
chrysanthemum
1814
a prize-winning chrysanthemum!
the old man
weeps
1814
for the prize-winning
chrysanthemum, a gift
of rice cake
1814
a victory shout--
the old man's chrysanthemum
has won!
1814
trusting the dog
to guard the gate...
chrysanthemum
1814
the treasure house
gives it shade...
chrysanthemum
1814
just today
home-grown in Shinano...
chrysanthemum
1814
in life
there's no second place...
defeated chrysanthemum
1814
the smell of piss
wafting too...
chrysanthemums
1814
seven tumble down
eight rise up...
maiden flowers
1814
here is bush clover
you can step over...
in bloom
1814
the young buck
borrows it for a nap...
blooming bush clover
1814
the kitten plays
hide-and-seek...
in bush clover
1814
a tabby cat too
spends a night...
blooming bush clover
1814
even the dog
becomes a beneficiary...
harvested rice
1814
a small child
chews on a pipe...
they harvest the rice
1814
a fringe
for the emperor's sleeve...
ears of rice
1814
beckoning the lightning bolt
to strike...
plume grass
1814
heads of the reeds--
in such a place
such a house!
1814
wind-blown reeds--
celestial maidens
miust dance like this
1814
some folks weave
and wear it...
cotton of the reeds
1814
sunset--
she calls for her child
in the blooming reeds
1814
smouldering still
among red leaves...
tobacco ashes
1814
shrine in a field--
wind can't scatter
the first cotton bolls
1814
adding its darkness
to the great darkness...
one leaf falls
1814
its leaves shed quickly
the paulownia tree looking
stuck-up
1814
just one leaf
hitting the paper lantern...
I'm awake now
1814
on the sleeping dog
gently, a hat...
a leaf
1814
clogging up
the lady-nun's garden...
berries
1814
like olden times--
cherries roasting in the evening
at Yoshino
1814
first winter month
tenth day...
a tea ceremony
1814
Twelfth Month
29th day
a tea ceremony
1814
returning the cactus
to the seat of honor...
winter solstice
1814
shrine maidens
clack and clomp...
winter solstice
1814
winter solstice in Japan--
plum trees
in bloom!
1814
a wild fox celebrates
among rice sheaves...
winter solstice
1814
my plum tree
looks no different...
winter solstice
1814
bitter cold--
the big morning glory
foolishly blooms
1814
backstreet--
on top of the cold weather
dog poop
1814
Ryogoku becomes
a swept garden...
winter cold
1814
unlike me, don't
let the cold defeat you!
vegetable garden
1814
on honorable Buddha's
honorable nose
an icicle
1814
"Come, spring!
Come, old man!"
the pigeon coos
1814
sifting the rice
and coins...
first winter rain
1814
a pile of firewood
a pile of rice bags...
first winter rain
1814
as of now
about ten winter storms...
mountain home
1814
the abbot's monkey
hauls potatoes...
steady winter rain
1814
big winter rain
or little winter rain...
sleeping is hard
1814
a scary sight
worse than a wolf!
winter rain leaking in
1814
reed mats, bamboo blinds
flap and clatter...
winter rain
1814
tucking in
the blind priest...
winter rain
1814
winter rain--
too many strings bend
the chrysanthemum
1814
forecasting the mountain
where it will die...
winter rain cloud
1814
when the lame chicken
ventures outside...
winter rain
1814
the clams' cremation smoke
rises...
evening's winter rain
1814
huddled in one house
travelers, horses...
winter rain
1814
Mokubo Temple
takes a pounding...
winter rain
1814
unaware of the snare
in the winter rain...
sparrow
1814
"If you're gonna blow
winter wind, then blow!'
Sumida River
1814
foolish crow
do you think this first snow
is my fault?
1814
the first snowfall
didn't happen...
my house
1814
first snowfall--
someone has entered
the outhouse
1814
first snow--
a Buddha-trusting priest's
morning voice
1814
the big chrysanthemum
wears a straw hat...
morning snow
1814
my world--
rice pounding echoes
over evening snow
1814
he's holding one
snowball...
the Buddha
1814
Holy Binzuru's
eyes glittering...
this morning's snow
1814
snow falls on the mountain
my ears
are ringing
1814
big blizzard--
at last with the high monk
come home?
1814
just now it fell--
"A hailstone!" cries the toddler
Over there!"
1814
no luck
for the woodpecker...
hail on the thicket
1814
pissing outside
while hailstones fall...
quite a feat!
1814
the preacher's
hand gestures too...
withered fields
1814
Dharma's Death-Day
in umbrella shade...
plum blossoms
1814
on Dharma's Death-Day
spouting gibberish...
a plover
1814
Dharma's Death-Day--
with a broom I draw
Mount Fuji
1814
Tenth Month--
winter rain offers itself
to his shrine
1814
red bean gruel--
even on the Patriarch's Death-Day
snow falling
1814
this day--
even stirring gruel
is a prayer!
1814
even pigeons
line up for their share...
Patriarch's gruel
1814
great Patriarch--
even unbelievers
get his gruel
1814
if you sleep and wait
will good luck come?
squeaking mouse
1814
don't wake up
the bush warbler!
a monk beating his bowl
1814
Buddha's Enlightenment Day--
for me the same
skin and bones
1814
performing winter
voice drills, bush warbler?
from morning on
1814
winter voice drills--
he looks like he swallowed
Mount Fuji!
1814
a head count
for unsealing tea...
Mount Kenashi
1814
a good rain--
today's the day to unseal
the new tea
1814
with a pryaer
to Merciful Kannon...
preparing my hearth
1814
preparing my hearth--
wind from mountain pines
blows through
1814
preparing my hearth
and as usual...
first winter rain
1814
secluded house--
for the dog and all humans
soot sweeping
1814
the soot sweeping
riles him up...
hut's dog
1814
ah well
her face looks sixty...
Twelfth Month singer
1814
my hut's rice field
at long last
becomes rice cakes!
1814
chickens
trampling the rice cakes
as they go
1814
pounding rice cakes
in the tub something extra...
plum blossoms
1814
pounding rice cakes
among the pines
Sumiyoshi Shrine
1814
in thicket shade
an old man pounds rice cakes
alone
1814
for Asakusa's chickens, too
a end-of-year gift...
scattering rice
1814
ginning cotton--
the trembling silhouette
of the cat
1814
rejoice, lice!
the wandering monk's
first padded robe
1814
at Basho's grave
beginning with a prayer...
first padded robe
1814
as Mount Matchi's
evening grows dark...
winter skullcaps
1814
soon enough
the deer will eat it...
paper quilt
1814
hey sparrows
no pissing on my old
winter quilt!
1814
the owl gives
a good hard look...
winter quilt
1814
grains of rice
pecked by a helpful bird...
my futon
1814
my province--
the children also make
snow Buddhas
1814
blocked with her
samisen's plectrum...
snowball
1814
wiping his charcoal-dusted
hands on a post...
the old man
1814
charcoal kiln--
a glimpse of a village
through the smoke
1814
granny muttering
complaints...
smoldering fire
1814
nagging words
over a wood fire...
countless
1814
countless nagging
words over a fire...
five cups of sake
1814
in the red bowl
a whorling dragon!
buckwheat noodles
1814
sitting cross-legged
a monkey joins too...
pufferfish soup
1814
slurping pufferfish soup--
behind me
Cape Izu
1814
even the painted devil
won't look...little bird warming
the hawk's nest
1814
crow at the gate
all night used by the hawk...
nest warmer
1814
two nest-warming birds
conversing
about something
1814
in the plum tree
are you praying hard
wren?
1814
smoke from brushwood
is rising...
play little wrens!
1814
pooping in the field--
avert your eyes
little wren!
1814
imitating the sleep talk
in the hut...
a plover sings
1814
a flock of plovers
gangs up on the dog
passing through
1814
from Mokubo Temple's
outhouse too...
a plover
1814
Fukagawa--
asleep in red leaves
a duckling
1814
hey waterfowl--
will you lie sleeping
till tomorrow?
1814
waterfowl
have posted guards...
awake, asleep
1814
a good windbreak
for the waterfowl...
Mount Tsukuba
1814
waterfowl--
in today's floating world
half-asleep
1814
a merry night--
pufferfish from Awa
and Kazusa
1814
is this house
pufferfish Pure Land?
Sumida River
1814
the face the pufferfish
shows its hosts...
foolish-looking
1814
one day you'll see
Matsushima...
pufferfish's blessing
1814
the more you look at it
the more sour the face...
pufferfish
1814
dressed in red leaves
he enters Kyoto...
pufferfish
1814
wrapped in straw
doubtlessly...
a pufferfish
1814
float, sea slug--
Buddha's law permeates
this world!
1814
not a devil
not a saint...
just a sea slug
1814
gliding dimly
in Akashi Bay...
a sea slug
1814
the radish picker
with a radish...
points the way
1814
house for sale--
except for one tree
a winter grove
1814
touch them
your hand shrivels too...
winter trees
1814
leaves with words
are falling too...
Mount Minobu
1814
any grass serves
as the dog's toilet...
red leaves falling
1814
for big goblins
and little ones...
winter withering
1814
winter withering--
on a pile of rice bags
the crow caws
1814
in winter's withering
all five hundred, sing!
mountain crows
1814
stand of trees--
my head too
withered and bare
1814
killing frost--
for this too
Jizo takes credit
1814
charcoal kiln--
a branch blooming out-of-season
pitched in
1814
plum tree in winter--
blossoms
are born
1814
winter plum tree--
after a quick dusting off
it blooms
1814
rain pours down--
Iriya's winter plum trees
give thanks
1814
a festival for my
earthenware Rikyu...
loquat blossoms
1814
munching, munching
on the red flower...
a crow
1815
even you, wolf
go out dressed in a robe...
Year of the Dog
1815
New Year's god--
once again I rely
on your help
1815
Mankind's Day--
from the main temple
the steam of bodies
1815
the sacred kite
grabbed by the hackberry tree...
a bold one!
1815
my torn kite--
move aside! move aside!
they say
1815
runaway kite!
the dog also eyes it
restlessly
1815
imitating his master
the dog watching
the kite
1815
wastepaper kite--
after a quick dusting off
rising to the sky
1815
no one calls it
"seven herbs"...
house in the trees
1815
the night watchman's
goose stares and stares...
a long spring day
1815
the blank stare
of a cactus...
a long spring day
1815
among the chickens
a bitter feud...
a long spring day
1815
the day is long
the day is so long!
tears
1815
picking veggies
with a paper lantern...
spring rain
1815
the thatched roof
not quite tight enough...
spring rain
1815
a heavy downpour--
Shinran's pine
in spring rain
1815
spring rain--
gone vegetable-picking
with a little lantern
1815
spring breeze--
a fresh-made moon
over the mountain
1815
spring breeze--
even digging in a field
oils gushes
1815
from the mist
stinging insects
emerge
1815
today too
spent stuffing my face...
spring mist
1815
earthen bridge--
I stand pissing
in morning mist
1815
planting vegetables
living in mist...
little house
1815
in heat shimmers
paper fan spread wide
he sleeps
1815
in heat shimmers
"Give back my child!"
a sparrow sings
1815
heat shimmers--
at the fox's hole
red beans and rice
1815
heat shimmers--
in the threshold crushing
hair lice
1815
a cat in heat shimmers
also follows
the God of Wandering
1815
heat shimmers--
even horse dung
becomes money
1815
little straw mat--
coins, offered branches
heat shimmers
1815
morning and night
bullied about...
leftover snow
1815
the last snow pile--
even the sparrows
make fun of it
1815
such is life--
the gate's snow is forced
to melt
1815
my hut--
the poverty-hiding snow
melts away
1815
my gate--
the neighborhood's
snow dump
1815
my snow too
entrusted to join
Chikuma River
1815
Buddha's Death-Day--
gently blowing pinks
and maiden flowers
1815
the face of Buddha
on his Death-Day
watching the coins
1815
spring blossoms--
even in a farmhouse
Amida Buddha on display
1815
on the candy stand too
decked with flowers...
Kukai's image
1815
konjac jelly
is prayed to too...
Kukai's image
1815
Kukai's image on display--
even the thief cat
in blossom shade
1815
migrating servants
from Echigo singing...
a little village
1815
ah well
his face looks sixty...
laid-off servant
1815
one migrating servant
rides a palanquin...
Kyoto
1815
laid-off servant
at the market...
fifty-year-old face
1815
what do you think
of my leaking roof?
Doll Festival dolls
1815
closing her eyes
to the scattering blossoms...
the doll
1815
clay dolls too
are gathering today...
festival
1815
my world--
those herbs over yonder
become my cake
1815
herb cakes--
inside the mixing tub
a croaking frog
1815
in a pine tree
umbrella-hats in a row...
low tide
1815
the child on her back
beats time with a flower...
tea-picking song
1815
grumbling his praise
to Amida Buddha...
tea picker
1815
Great Japan!
a woman, also
digs with a plow
1815
the love-crazed cat
listens
to my scolding
1815
love-struck cat--
down into Wolf Valley
he goes
1815
they stop sniffing
and go their separate ways...
lover cats
1815
love-smitten
my cat becomes
the neighbor's pet
1815
because of love
they call him
"thieving cat!"
1815
a grain of rice
stuck to his nose...
lover cat
1815
while at my window
a yowl...
the lover cat
1815
living in harmony
how many generations?
sparrows in the eaves
1815
at my humble hut
he begs for a present
a baby sparrow
1815
my humble hut--
with baby sparrows
underfoot
1815
baby sparrow
so quickly you've learned
to eat and run
1815
in the hand
tossing coins, baby sparrow
starts cheeping
1815
chirping for the rice
on my cheek...
baby sparrow
1815
behind the house--
this bush warbler
these cherry blossoms
1815
bush warbler--
his rain-drenched
morning voice
1815
bush warbler--
this voice for this
mountain home
1815
bush warbler--
not deserting this house
without blossoms
1815
bush warbler--
how many hundreds of songs
before you eat?
1815
keeping a steady eye
on the quarrel...
the swallow
1815
no definite place
to spend the night...
evening swallow
1815
Kyoto, Kyoto!
on Kyoto's Fifth Avenue...
swallows
1815
swallows watch the people
come and go...
deep wooded mountains
1815
hey swallows!
for my thin, rising smoke
congratulate me first
1815
a good world! good world!
country swallows
and town swallows
1815
from great hell
and from little hell--
skylarks
1815
sticking to the thicket
where she left her children...
skylark
1815
in the hell painting
perched on a fence...
a lark sings
1815
gamblers in the field
scatter below...
a lark sings
1815
disappearing
into morning haze...
geese taking off
1815
rice field geese
if you stay too long
danger! danger!
1815
behind the fisherman's neck
departing
geese
1815
wherever you like
lead me along...
departing geese
1815
our praising Buddha
is a nuisance! the geese
depart
1815
safe in holy
Jizo's hand, squats
a frog
1815
hitching a ride
on Mr. Turtle...
a croaking frog
1815
raising a cheer
for the torches...
croaking frogs
1815
bathing in the fallen
plum blossoms...
a croaking frog
1815
sitting in a row
peace on earth...
frogs
1815
squatting like he's vomiting
a man!
croaking frog
1815
celebratory smoke
rising, the croaking
frogs
1815
the dog and the butterfly
not strangers
at all
1815
on the way to bed
the butterfly visits
the mouse's rice
1815
crossing the hanging bridge
on foot...
butterfly
1815
playing with
the rambunctious dog...
little butterfly
1815
"Follow me to Zenkô Temple!"
a butterfly
flits
1815
borrowing an antler
the little butterfly
rests
1815
a butterfly flits--
even in grassy shade
a hot bath's ready
1815
the flute player
is the village headman!
butterflies dance
1815
for your dancing fee
I let fly this piece of paper...
meadow butterfly
1815
in a thicket, too
around the Buddha...
butterflies dance
1815
you too
are viewing the blossoms...
lice!
1815
a skinny louse
born into the realm
of blossoms
1815
the trout too
hit their peak young...
Yoshino River
1815
a lot of fleeing
a lot of playing...
little trout
1815
seizing
the flowering mustard...
mouse on tiptoe
1815
on the flowering mustard
plop! sits
the frog
1815
flowering mustard--
the sparrows play
with a mouse
1815
on flowering mustard
sitting so lightly...
a mouse
1815
my hut--
atop the stems
of flowering mustard
1815
lying on her back
sucking on the dangling
wisteria
1815
land of vegetables--
a teahouse with blooming
wisteria
1815
creeping through
wisteria trellises...
Oji Highway
1815
from a wisteria trellis
nook I see...
great Edo
1815
wisteria blossoms
"Praise Ah... Ah...!"
they rustle
1815
the plum tree at my gate
though reluctantly
has bloomed!
1815
among red plum blossoms
drying from its bath
a cat
1815
the moon shines
before the dinner tray...
plum blossoms
1815
peacefully
the plum blossoms spread...
countryside
1815
even my plum tree
in its own sweet time
has bloomed!
1815
the wolf that followed me
howls...
clouds of blossoms
1815
day after day
more and more poop...
blossoming mountain
1815
cherry blossoms--
even for a poor "Praise Buddha!"
a shower of coins
1815
cherry blossoms--
since the day
Amida became Buddha
1815
scattering blossoms--
money is collected
Buddha on display
1815
even popeyed Emma
hell's judge, gawks...
cherry blossoms!
1815
parents stick them
in their umbrella-hats...
cherry blossoms
1815
my gate's cherry tree
flits and flutters...
hole in the fence
1815
relishing the falling
cherry blossoms...
a puppy
1815
from Japan's
front door on...
cherry blossoms!
1815
a hot bath
a prayer
then cherry blossoms!
1815
Yoshino Hill--
not a single cherry blossom
with a flaw
1815
vacant temple--
cherry trees blooming
industriously
1815
becoming snakes
practicing their wriggle...
branches of willow
1815
he'll soon find out--
he who says
"Nights are short!"
1815
the short summer night
filled with courtiers...
mountain
1815
"What a short summer night!"
the hackberry tree
scolds
1815
short summer night--
the vassal
wins the lottery
1815
short summer night--
under a tree, on a stone
priests
1815
fear not!
if you sleep in the field
night is short
1815
scowling
at the hot night...
gargoyle
1815
answering prayers
for the rice shoots...
summer heat
1815
a pigeon pacing
at the edge of bamboo...
the heat
1815
a butterbur leaf
pops open a hole...
the heat
1815
cool breeze--
he yawns in the hot
healing bath
1815
the cool breeze
meandering
arrives
1815
the cool breeze
through my neighbor's pine
just a remnant
1815
cool breeze--
on the cloud's outskirts
a little village
1815
the so-called
"cool evenings" of summer...
soon to be over
1815
cool air--
even in my soup
Mount Fuji!
1815
cool air--
the shaved forelock falls
into an umbrella-hat
1815
cool air--
for the great lord's
gatekeeper
1815
cool air--
bath steam and rice field
stirring
1815
this cool air comes
from Amida Buddha's
direction!
1815
evening cool--
visiting Ueno Hill
wears me out
1815
June rain--
to Akashi seacoast
by way of Yashima
1815
cooking rice
in lotus leaves...
June rain
1815
swift-footed it flees--
cloudburst!
cloudburst!
1815
soup bucket--
the summer cloudburst
has passed
1815
watching the downpour
from under a temple
bell
1815
the cloudburst
scrubs it clean...
the old house
1815
the cloudburst
and Lord Kaga
splishing, splashing!
1815
one after another
insatiable cloudbursts...
our world today
1815
even the cloudburst
shows the facing mountain
favoritism
1815
rainstorm--
two drops in the rice cake tub
three in the winnowing basket
1815
my lovemaking--
Mount Tsukuba's clouds
bursting!
1815
green hedge--
a frog cheers
the billowing clouds
1815
today again
they're putting on a show...
billowing clouds
1815
billowing clouds--
toward the big drums
bring your rain
1815
like little dots
little billows in a row...
little clouds
1815
toward my line of sight
standing in a row...
cloud billows
1815
wind on the greenery--
a row of shrubs
for sale
1815
arms and legs spread wide
straddling
pure water
1815
from the shade
of the poison plant...
pure water
1815
my home village--
from my walking stick's hole
pure water gushes
1815
your rice field
my rice field
the same green
1815
the baby sparrow
splish-splash bathes...
in Buddha's tea
1815
on a little shrine
rustling with the azaleas...
rice dumplings
1815
medicine
for the bush warbler's voice?
this morning's rain
1815
in my new summer robe
tucked in the sleeve...
tofu
1815
even a bathhouse boy
poses like a saint...
new summer robe
1815
growing weary
of the diet...
my new summer robe
1815
growing old--
even a dog won't sniff
my summer kimono
1815
summer kimono--
a present for my bride
in Shinano
1815
summer kimono--
the rain kindly
washes it
1815
tomorrow's wind
blows tomorrow...
in my mosquito net, alone
1815
Osaka--
on the back of an ox
a siesta
1815
in the darkness
swishing, swishing...
paper fan
1815
softly snoring--
the cat curled up
on the fan
1815
after getting it
it's dropped so soon...
paper fan
1815
at my hut
with tobacco, smoking out
the mosquitos
1815
airing out the bedding
and
the cat
1815
the fish in the tub
won't know tomorrow...
evening cool
1815
the fish
unaware of the bucket...
a cool evening
1815
saying my apology
to the sacred tree...
a cool breeze
1815
on the ground
we stick and sit...
evening cool
1815
a wifeless man
makes his plants bloom...
evening cool
1815
a farting contest
under the moonflower trellis...
cool air
1815
with a kitchen knife
choosing eels...
a cool evening
1815
massaging my back
with the pine tree's gnarl...
evening cool
1815
evening cool--
with my feet counting
Echigo mountains
1815
scowling
at the cool night...
gargoyle
1815
my rice field too
song by song
is planted
1815
rice-planting song--
let everyone's anger
be cured!
1815
in the thicket shade
all alone...
rice-planting song
1815
the next crop
of barnyard grass...
just as healthy
1815
move aside too
horseflies and flies!
ice delivery
1815
stenciled onto
the ice he hands down...
wrinkled hands
1815
holding a parasol
over blocks of snow...
a samurai
1815
for eight pennies
the whole family celebrates...
summer ice!
1815
a private celebration
but first a nap...
ice delivery
1815
early rising
is medicine, they say!
cuckoo
1815
also behind me
returning from Nikko Shrine...
a cuckoo
1815
entering Edo
without fear or qualm...
cuckoo!
1815
scolded by old Sokan
never again...
cuckoo
1815
taking credit
for glorious Nikko...
cuckoo
1815
how was the festival
up at Nikko...
cuckoo?
1815
from the tip
of Hitomaro's brush...
a cuckoo
1815
"That's a poor excuse
for rain!"
sings the cuckoo
1815
a butterbur leaf
on his head, listen:
"Cuckoo!"
1815
the cuckoo hurls threats
at the horse
passing by
1815
night work
on countless islands...
cuckoos
1815
lighting my pipe
with a candle...
"Cuckoo!"
1815
Kakizaki--
with a stammering song
the mountain cuckoo
1815
the mountain cuckoo sings
at Mr. Toad's
funeral
1815
down in the shadows
lurks the ants' hell...
mountain cuckoo
1815
the house's former tenant
kindly left...
the mountain cuckoo!
1815
help yourself to the lice
in my thatched hut!
mountain cuckoo
1815
are you standing guard
like O-Take Buddha?
mountain cuckoo
1815
deigning to guard
my house...
the mountain cuckoo
1815
swarming 'round
the boat-hauler's legs...
fireflies
1815
sprinkled on
the raftsman's rice...
fireflies
1815
my child strikes
a sulky pose
calling fireflies
1815
sweeping them off
the cow's back...
fireflies
1815
the puppy comes out
and calls them too...
fireflies
1815
my firefly guest
do you disdain
my hut?
1815
get ready to see
my piss waterfall...
come, firefly!
1815
forced to flit
past swallow nest poop...
firefly
1815
tripping
on the wrinkles of my hand...
firefly
1815
out! fireflies
I'm locking up...
out! fireflies
1815
the first firefly
to Buddha's lap
has fled
1815
taking a shortcut
across my chest...
firefly
1815
in an old bucket
rice plants rustle
fireflies flit
1815
firefly's light--
flitting through my hut
forms a cross
1815
guiding the way
to firefly-viewing...
the hut's dog
1815
a firefly flits
to peek behind her...
Goddess Kannon
1815
my home
a bit too cramped...
a firefly flits away
1815
my home--
after surveying its flaws
a firefly flits away
1815
mosquito larvae too
keep the sutra's
rhythm
1815
toward the fist
holding the prayer gong...
whining mosquitos
1815
even the little child
has flies
to swat
1815
Tanigumi Temple--
even flies
come to make offerings
1815
swatting a fly
on Buddha's holy
head
1815
temple of flies--
they pray too for the god
to come down
1815
hanging up
fly-repelling grasses...
where this time?
1815
all over my rice
don't be crude!
imperial flies
1815
while I'm away
enjoy your lovemaking
hut's flies
1815
after plastering
the gate with fleas
the dog runs off
1815
the kitten rubs
her fleas
on the hackberry tree
1815
from the pale red flower
a cicada
is born!
1815
mute cicada--
he, too, perfectly
at peace
1815
little monk--
deep in his sleeve
singing, a cicada
1815
drenched
by a rain shower
the cicada's voice
1815
Sumiyoshi--
growing up together
the cicadas sing
1815
cool breeze--
growing up together
the cicadas sing
1815
cicadas singing
it's a contagious
disease
1815
a cicada chirrs--
in the soon-to-be cut
pine tree
1815
cicadas chirr--
cocoons are drying up
drying up
1815
a cicada chirrs--
then flies in a flash
up my sleeve
1815
first cicada
are you singing for him?
Buddha's temple
1815
cicada in the pine
listening to the sutra
is born
1815
a face
like everyone else's...
the snail
1815
the brushwood door's
substitute lock...
a snail
1815
does the cloudburst
delight you...
snail?
1815
while praising the cool breeze
leeches
dropped
1815
speaking
this day's deepest thoughts...
poppies
1815
without fanfare
hollyhocks quietly
bloom
1815
this world
bristles with thorns...
yet lotuses bloom
1815
leftover rice plants--
even the horse
won't gobble them
1815
leftover rice plants--
even the horse
won't trample them
1815
over me
soon enough you'll bloom
moss blossoms
1815
in this world's wind
they thin out quick...
bamboo shoots
1815
one by one
the tall bamboo shoots
bending
1815
bamboo shoots--
big brothers, little brothers
swish, swish!
1815
blind luck--
bamboo shoots sprout
where they sprout
1815
my hut--
a creek serves
as my melon cooler
1815
the temple guard
sells tea cakes...
grove of summer trees
1815
even on the grafted willow
so quick!
thick summer grasses
1815
no lazing by the gate
they husk wheat...
deep tree shade
1815
the temple guard
sells tea cakes...
deep tree shade
1815
first, a deutzia blossom
for his hair...
temple actor
1815
in deutzia blossoms
a hatchling peeks out...
mountain
1815
autumn growing cold--
deep deep
deeeep cold!
1815
feeling for the stone bridge
with my feet...
a cold night
1815
for floating world
and sky a cold night...
rushing clouds
1815
from Mr. Wolf
to Mr. Watchman...
night's cold
1815
must be time
to discard the old...
a cold night
1815
I'm forced to play
the flute...
a cold night
1815
by the next room's lamplight
eating my rice...
a cold night
1815
old habit--
the cold nights of Kiso
on my knees
1815
absentmindedly
standing in the cold night...
high priest
1815
my knees
this cold night in the mountains
feel older
1815
a flute plays--
suddenly night's coldness
begins
1815
feeling for parched beans
with my feet...
a cold night
1815
those who call me "starling"
raise a ruckus...
a cold night
1815
for vain mankind
it's carousing-time...
a cold night
1815
walking off
a bellyful of rice cakes...
a cold night
1815
my hut--
moving from back to front
night's coldness
1815
the little monkey
chews on a pipe...
autumn dusk
1815
sleeping mat--
blowing pipe smoke
at the Milky Way
1815
consider this rubbish heap
a mountain...
autumn moon
1815
scolding
vain man...
the autumn moon
1815
hole in the wall--
my harvest moon
comes in
1815
harvest moon--
you also seek first
Buddha's peace
1815
harvest moon
and looking west
Zenkô Temple!
1815
harvest moon--
even islands without pines
add to the head count
1815
broken wall--
my harvest moon's
grand entrance
1815
though autumn wind blows--
lazy
as a slug
1815
autumn wind
racing like hell
to my house
1815
autumn wind--
also behind me
Mount Usori
1815
seated on your butt
it blows to serve you...
autumn wind
1815
vain mankind!
even in blossoming Kyoto
autumn wind
1815
setting the silkworm
moth adrift...
autumn wind
1815
sloppy, yes
but the dewdrops are pearls!
pearls!
1815
dewdrops form--
in the shade of grasses
seven farmhouses
1815
"Dewdrops here!"
the mountain crow's voice
like a whining cat
1815
to which side
of the silver dew?
the crow's summons
1815
it's a day
for discarding old folks...
dew dripping down
1815
become pearls
great big pearls!
morning dew
1815
round dewdrop--
with no reason to suffer
stands up straight
1815
lightning flash--
the astonished face
of the dog
1815
lightning flash--
running like hell
to Zenkô Temple
1815
my dog
turns a somersault...
field of flowers
1815
horse-shaped melon--
"Gimme! Gimme!" cries
the crying child
1815
the child on her back
reaches to touch...
bell for the ancestors
1815
a cricket rides
unsteadily...
horse-shaped eggplant
1815
she tells her age
spreading five fingers...
memorial for the dead
1815
realizing it's being hit
just for fun...
bell for the ancestors
1815
even the sparrows
partake...
Bon Festival rice
1815
a lantern for the dead
my Bon present...
from me to me
1815
served on a lotus leaf
a lonely sight...
Bon Festival rice
1815
lit by a bonfire
for the dead...
Sumida River
1815
evening moon--
in the cool air
visiting graves
1815
night of dancing
Bon Festival, just today
and tomorrow
1815
for your sake
though I don't want to...
Bon Festival dance
1815
awaiting the stars--
does the grown man
feel young again?
1815
veiling the face
of the Bride Star...
hackberry tree
1815
chopsticks of green
plume grass, uneven...
festival
1815
for one day
it's a famous site...
plume grass barn
1815
wild boar
spend a night!
thatched hunting hut
1815
from plume grass
has it arisen?
Mount Fuji
1815
building a hunting hut--
in the thatch a katydid
sings
1815
looking trendy
with four corners...
thatched hunting hut
1815
throughout Shinano
on every Mount Suwa...
evening dew
1815
just the sight
of plume grass chopsticks...
cool air!
1815
paying no heed
to Suwa Shrine's wind...
plume grass
1815
uneven chopsticks
of plume grass too...
celebrate the festival
1815
from the tiny thatched
hunting hut, first...
a rustling
1815
the first plume grass
has called it forth...
Mount Fuji
1815
flowering plume grass
even shaped as a hunting hut...
is inviting
1815
thatched hunting huts--
in the mood
for Mount Fuji
1815
in Kamakura
one for the dog...
sacred rice cakes
1815
the monk's rough clothes
pounded
with a purpose
1815
evening cloth-pounding--
my wife's tea cakes
are huge!
1815
life in the mountains--
even priests
pound cloth in the evening
1815
at my hut too
a stone for pounding
cloth
1815
wild goose without companions
come! come!
to shelter
1815
autumn's first geese--
my rice field too
is five or six feet!
1815
begging at my gate
the geese lose
weight
1815
the black, the green,
the brown...
insect chorus
1815
insects sing, fly
here and there...
"just for us"
1815
a cicada chirrs--
there! and there!
stars appear
1815
resting
on the big dog's head
dragonfly
1815
the cricket
makes his bedroom...
horse dung
1815
the katydid
has given his cage
the slip
1815
little straw mat--
on the mountain of millet
katydid
1815
my humble hut--
it's turned tea-brown
the katydid
1815
the praying mantis
hangs by one hand...
temple bell
1815
foolish wildflower
without a trace
of bitterness
1815
in the gateway
it struggled but bloomed...
wildflower
1815
my chrysanthemum
doesn't care about looks
or style
1815
in the morning glories
peeking out...
a mouse
1815
sleeping mat--
pipe smoke wafts over
the maiden flowers
1815
in my home village
they're used to poverty...
maiden flowers
1815
blooming bush clover--
hiding from the child
a deer's face
1815
moonlight--
the wife won't serve
this big eggplant
1815
beckoning
the rain shower to strike...
plume grass
1815
an easterner--
a red leaf worn
on his head
1815
sticking to
the young buck's butt...
red leaves
1815
dollup by dollup
grilled tea cakes...
on red leaves
1815
grilled miso
dollup by dollup loaded...
on red leaves
1815
evening's cooked rice--
chopsticks grab
a red leaf
1815
persimmon leaves
turn Buddha-colored...
then fall
1815
tall rice cake tubs
low rice cake tubs...
red persimmon leaves
1815
plump twigs
for the tea ceremony...
red persimmon leaves
1815
my province--
for the Buddha of the thicket
first cotton boll
1815
a puckery persimmon--
helping drain
my moxa cautery
1815
the world today--
even sponge gourd rind
for sale
1815
for the eldest son
the fool...
a sponge gourd
1815
O autumn goddess
have a seat!
ladle of chestnuts
1815
at my gate the cat
batting chestnuts!
chestnuts!
1815
roasted chestnuts
tantalizingly aimed...
at the god
1815
first winter month
tenth day...
sleeping late
1815
first winter month--
from behind Senso Temple
I pray
1815
sleeping in a ball
on a winter's night...
my little nook
1815
winter night--
playing with fire tongs
amusing too
1815
the big cold snap
is big, BIG!
moonlit night
1815
felt deep
in my rib cage bones...
night cold
1815
though you think it
a shameful waste...
bitter cold, milder cold
1815
our town crier
the titmouse...
"It's cold! So cold!"
1815
back door--
pissing scribbles
in the first ice
1815
that fallen red leaf
looks fake...
first ice
1815
the lucky mouse
crossing, come back!
first ice
1815
my debt-paying coins
have all run away...
ice
1815
the bush warbler's sleeping place
revealed...
winter moon
1815
the god Kompira's
fluttering voice...
winter moon
1815
an old man's
clogs clacking too...
winter moon
1815
cold moon--
the wild geese also pray
to Kompira
1815
my tea-boiled rice
puffing steam...
first winter rain
1815
the leaves of the
porcelain cedar tremble...
first winter rain
1815
the puppy begs
for a present...
evening's winter rain
1815
the woodpecker's effort
is wasted...
a night of winter rain
1815
making the blooming
cockscomb droop...
winter rain
1815
winter rain falls
on Kamakura's residents...
geeses, gulls
1815
come winter rain--
to the house two doors down
from the corner
1815
Mount Uzu
facing the winter wind
drinks it in
1815
in winter wind
chirps sounds lonely...
sparrow
1815
in winter wind
the wholesale merchant's
dog...snores
1815
winter wind--
he shoulders a musket
and a short sword
1815
mud-dumplings--
today too, winter wind!
winter wind!
1815
just for lonely me
a storm, winter wind
and hail
1815
these thin legs--
winter storm winds
a sickle moon
1815
the backstreet
is the dog's toilet
first snowfall
1815
first one of the year
thin as can be...
my snow
1815
"First snowfall!"
he shouts in the middle
of pissing
1815
truthfully
a great nuisance!
snow at my gate
1815
with her samisen
she makes snow fall...
second floor
1815
blossoming Kyoto
is it?
beggarly snow
1815
the rope-belted
pretty woman is stuck...
morning snow
1815
snowy day--
the great temple hall
is ceiling-less
1815
its butt aimed
at us, the blizzard
passes on
1815
let loose
by some god above...
hailstones
1815
first frost on the grass
gets a dash...
sacred sake
1815
first frost--
a woman's voice
recites a prayer
1815
first frost--
flower sellers in a row
hitting their bells
1815
first frost--
the smiling face
of the tea master
1815
"Frost has formed!"
he yells
then pisses
1815
a loop of prayer beads
'round his neck...
withered fields
1815
withered fields--
with rice bag on her head
she runs
1815
black kites wheeling
in the sky...
the gods depart
1815
a bonfire too
for a fruitful year...
Boar Festival
1815
cawing crow--
didn't you like the bonfire
for Boar Festival?
1815
morning moon--
the god of wealth's food pile
hides it
1815
god of wealth Festival--
also going in, going out
rows of pigeons
1815
Old Quarter--
food for the god of wealth
in mist
1815
Shinto dance--
even the nursing baby
claps her hands
1815
darkening dusk--
even in yonder thicket
a Shinto dance
1815
Shinto dance at night--
red leaves fall
into the bonfires
1815
come! come!
to my house, you off-beat
bowl-beater
1815
I unseal the new tea
celestial geese
hurry above
1815
winter rain--
time to unseal
the new tea!
1815
making the rounds
of western mountains...
fresh winter tea
1815
all alone
digging out the ash...
my hearth
1815
trying to unclog
my hearth for winter...
all by myself
1815
kabuki showcase--
how many faces
fewer this year?
1815
kabuki showcase--
the new orphan's
forced laugh
1815
adding their voices
to the kabuki showcase...
celestial geese
1815
at the moat
Boar Festival's bonfire
turns cold
1815
"These damn red leaves
are a nuisance!"
wicker trap fisherman
1815
a slap and a scolding
for the wicker trap fisheman...
his old man
1815
my hut's dog
is guarding it...
brushwood fish trap
1815
a farmer abandons
his brushwood fish trap...
with regret
1815
a note on the
brushwood fish trap...
"Property of Santaro"
1815
a little mouse
plays hide-and-seek...
discarded cotton
1815
ginning cotton--
this world under heaven
at peace
1815
"O Fudaraku
where waves pound the shore..."
sowing wheat
1815
some poorly sown
wheat too...
a field in Yoshino
1815
my hut's buckwheat--
this year too
someone reaped it
1815
my hut's buckwheat--
completely bent over
in the middle
1815
praise Basho!
I've found my padded
cotton vest
1815
Buddha is offered
one first...
padded winter robe
1815
"A dirty priest
in a red skullcap"...
he's called
1815
the farting contest
begins at once...
winter quilt
1815
guard over haiku
I beseech you!
snow Buddha
1815
first snow--
even a lump of it
is Buddha
1815
snow Buddha--
my handprint too
is precious
1815
sparrows gather
and cheer...
my snow Buddha
1815
first snowfall--
it too
becomes Buddha
1815
funny
the dog turns 'round...
snowball!
1815
above the hibachis
of the Old Quarter
day breaks
1815
another early morning
laugh!
my charcoal fire
1815
tea ceremony white
charcoal getting wet...
entering Kyoto
1815
even the bag
the charcoal came in
burned tonight!
1815
darkened by smoke
from the charcoal kiln...
paper door
1815
even the charcoal kiln
invariably
has neighbors
1815
straight up--
the smoke of Holy Gohei's
charcoal kiln
1815
snap and crackle
goes the fire...
"All praise to Amida Buddha!"
1815
in tea blossoms
the bush warbler's child's
singing lessons
1815
though it's smoky
don't leave my hut!
singing plover
1815
trampling my roof thatch
to pieces...
plovers!
1815
plovers on a winter night--
not an old voice
among them
1815
hoarse-voiced plover
get in tune
with the others!
1815
slowly, slowly
plover with burnt tail feathers
where to now?
1815
though out of tune
they're Suma Beach's plovers!
plovers!
1815
even in Yoshiwara
in a one-ply wall
plovers in the night
1815
even the wild ducks
and vegetables...
a miserable village!
1815
hey wild duck
in what water did you
grow so fat?
1815
Mr. and Mrs. Duck--
as the anchor lowers
they play
1815
coming to my gate
wild ducks...
you'll lose weight
1815
mandarin duck--
pretending not to see
human hot temper
1815
today too--
the mandarin duck's
lazy living
1815
remarkably peaceful
despite your loss?
mandarin duck widow
1815
he looks like someone
I know! pufferfish's
bloated face
1815
the blooming cockscomb
dies
standing up
1815
no shame for you
red chrysanthemum!
another winter rain
1815
for the money-making
chrysanthemum, too...
the same withering
1815
among the withered
chrysanthemums...
brazen sparrows
1815
fallen leaves--
a chrysanthemum blooms
wretchedly
1815
grassy thicket--
what karma lets
the chrysanthemum survive?
1815
the plume grass
that hides the lovers...
withers
1815
big willow--
no matter how much withering
it's faint
1815
the big willow
isn't a snake...
winter withering
1815
hardly any red ones
at all...
falling leaves
1815
windblown leaves
good job, cat!
pushing them
1815
the wind has brought
enough to build a fire...
fallen leaves
1815
the kitten catches one
for a second...
fallen leaves
1815
wastepaper joins in
as they fall...
red leaves
1815
hollow tree--
though numb with cold
out-of-season blooms
1815
wastepaper joins in
the blooming...
out-of-season
1815
cherry tree--
though about to crash down
blooming out of season
1815
shining on
the winter chrysanthemum...
black devil's tongue
1815
a winter chrysanthemum
and cheek scarf...
for little monkey
1815
to the winter mum
the smoke of tofu dregs
wafts
1815
silverleaf blossoms
still perservering...
"three years on a stone?"
1815
stuck into
the sasanqua hedge...
bamboo ladle
1815
sasanqua blossoms--
the cook's
grumpy face
1815
thinking about
tea blossoms...
my trashy hut
1815
tea blossoms--
Bodhidharma's lacquered hands
in sunshine
1815
tea blossoms--
an earthenware Saigyo's
grumpy face
1815
blooming loquat--
a sickle moon
from year 783
1815
loquat blossoms--
my tea kettle too
is growing hair
1815
Katsushika--
the old god of wealth's
winter peonies
1815
a happy cat
with a bamboo ladle...
winter peony
1816
even for me
a god to lift me up!
blossoming spring
1816
this body of dust
softly, softly...
blossoming spring
1816
at my house
born with ease...
spring blossoms
1816
New Year's decorations--
the night I burn them
I cheer
1816
snow falls
on the celebration...
New Year's bonfire
1816
they make a pitiful fire...
my New Year's
decorations
1816
for the celebration
of little pines
the day stretches longer
1816
showing off
even a dog flies one...
kites
1816
wearing it carefully--
a kite
as a hat
1816
tied to the monkey's
back...
string of the kite
1816
even the kite
of the war lord...
bad-mouthed
1816
a kite rises
slow and easy...
a little village
1816
hugging his kite
he sleeps
deep and calm
1816
worn as a hat
the monkey guards the kite...
sunrise
1816
sort of a challenge
to wear it as a hat...
kite
1816
must be napping
with it over his head...
a kite
1816
in one sky--
grand imperial kites
and little kites
1816
a wastepaper kite
next to that of Maeda
Lord Kaga!
1816
at the big town
it comes to a stop...
kite string
1816
before the gate
the kite-snagging hackberry tree...
a thousand ages old!
1816
dancing monkey--
its face also
isn't weary
1816
in my province
even trained monkeys
wear noble hats
1816
in my province
even trained monkeys
offer prayers!
1816
the young monkey
looks and looks while dancing...
red sleeves
1816
melting to the tune
of the New Year's singer...
snow at the gate
1816
pushing through
the hot spring steam...
picking herbs
1816
spring peace--
old monk with kimono
tucked behind
1816
excess bath water
drips and dribbles...
a long spring day
1816
the way things are--
in my do-nothing house
the day is long
1816
growing old--
even the long spring day
brings tears
1816
taking turns
with the pipe lighter...
a long spring day
1816
companionless
the goose flies aimlessly...
a long spring day
1816
in the long spring day
scribbling on a wall...
eyes, nose
1816
long spring day--
the high-spirited pony
frolics
1816
in the long spring day
my walking stick's tip...
a pipe lighter
1816
just for fun
pooping in a field...
a long spring day
1816
the day is long!
long! in this vain
world today
1816
a long spring day--
lazy
as a slug
1816
in this vain life
a sheer waste...
a long spring day
1816
from the tip
of the forest ranger's broom...
spring departs
1816
even white-haired friends
regret spring's passing...
the idiots
1816
thin spring snow--
red beans and rice
for the fox god
1816
over the just-spread
sawdust...
spring snow
1816
spring snow--
on fresh-laid reeds
it falls
1816
spring snow--
not a single face
without a fan
1816
the first blessing
for plow and hoe...
spring rain
1816
splish-splash
the cat washes in the river...
spring rain
1816
spring rain--
he catches my yawn
dog at the gate
1816
spring breeze--
her sleeves rustle over
Mount Matchi
1816
spring wind--
the writing brush rolls away
in the field
1816
the thief
is just as he is...
hazy moon
1816
the temple teatime's
second bell...
morning mist
1816
vanishing
in the heat shimmers...
my humble hut
1816
heat shimmers--
shaped like a cross
the leftover snow
1816
young folk--
even melting snow
is fun, no?
1816
rice seedlings--
a little family watches
the evening rain
1816
rice-seedling beds
with no unevenness...
can't be found
1816
herb cakes--
cherry blossoms sprinkled
on top
1816
my intrepid guide
on the low tide beach...
village dog
1816
wiping my feet
on pine needles...
low tide
1816
in the river fog
a boisterous noise...
tea-picking song
1816
led by a gang
of grannies...
the tea-picking song
1816
the lover cat
with a shameless face
has returned
1816
while the gate's sparrow
watches
he snatches an egg
1816
he knows the meaning
of the breakfast bell...
baby sparrow
1816
introducing their children
to society...
strutting sparrows
1816
faces looking like
they've been to Zenkô Temple
baby sparrows
1816
do me a favor
baby sparrow...
pick at my lice
1816
my neighbor for a moment
the bush warbler
moves on
1816
the bush warbler watching
watching the gamblers...
sings
1816
bush warbler's breakfast--
only for this
it sang
1816
the bush warbler toils
at his singing...
before eating
1816
the bush warbler
watches disapprovingly...
they gamble
1816
to Kitano
every morning, the bush warbler's
pilgrimage
1816
bush warbler--
you still haven't lost
your Kiso accent
1816
a bush warbler arrives
unexpectedly...
gamblers
1816
bush warbler--
even while pooping, sings
Lotus Sutra
1816
bush warbler--
if your throat gets dry
there's Sumida River
1816
bush warbler
on a branch, in her lap
a cat
1816
a box lunch
in a tree's crotch...
a bush warbler sings
1816
no bigger than a sparrow
yet he warbles
the Lotus Sutra!
1816
at dawn
deep in the rain
a lark is singing
1816
the clam too
opens wide...
a lark is singing
1816
Musashi Plain--
while he poops entertained
by a lark
1816
sermon in the field--
the priest's wide-open mouth
a pheasant's voice
1816
a mountain pheasant
ruffling my sleeve
runs away
1816
departing geese--
how many times have you seen
Mount Asama's smoke?
1816
departing geese--
how many times have you seen
blossom-filled Edo?
1816
goose, wild goose
when did your
journey begin?
1816
a goose without companions
plodding along
returns
1816
where and how
did you spend First Month?
returning geese
1816
will one flock
stop at Senju town?
geese flying north
1816
Mr. and Mrs. Goose
talking as they go...
they go!
1816
learning to praise Buddha
at Mokubo Temple...
geese flying north
1816
finalizing the divorce
leaving my house behind...
departing geese
1816
cheering on
Noin's pouring rain...
croaking frogs
1816
yielding the seat of honor
to Mr. Turtle...
croaking frog
1816
he comes to visit
with such gravitas...
a frog
1816
sitting up straight
in their circle...
croaking frogs
1816
the little Buddha's head
a launch pad too...
frogs
1816
this year the world is good!
little frogs
big frogs
1816
like Saigyo
squatting, croaking
frog
1816
copying the nagging
in the thatched hut...
croaking frogs
1816
despite the scolding
composed and shameless...
frog
1816
taking up the holy man's
chant...
croaking frogs
1816
taking a leak
he keeps on croaking...
frog
1816
one by one
they take their seats...
croaking frogs
1816
in the divine presence
of Sumiyoshi's gods...
a frog
1816
with one voice
their mouths open wide...
frogs
1816
praising Buddha
mouths gaping wide...
frogs
1816
running away
grumbling, mumbling...
an evening frog
1816
chasing a lady
who gets away...
croaking frog
1816
floral mat--
squatting in front
a frog
1816
scrawny frog, hang tough!
Issa
is here
1816
yellow rose--
"let me go first!"
jumping frog
1816
in evening's glow
they glow...
frogs croaking
1816
in my hut
on urgent business...
a frog
1816
my hut--
a frog has come
on urgent business
1816
entering my gate
unknowingly
a frog
1816
his hands hanging
in Mount Fuji's evening
a croaking frog
1816
all day teasing
the horse's ear...
little butterfly
1816
gate's garden--
when the crow scolds
the little butterfly leaves
1816
on a mat by the gate
I'm the butterfly's
roadblock
1816
miffed by the coin
tossed out the window...
little butterfly leaves
1816
brimming with hope
little butterflies...
a young couple
1816
flitting butterfly--
thus is Buddha's law
in this world
1816
a butterfly flits--
hot tea, hot water
and sake for sale
1816
stop, butterfly
once more, stop!
on the festival rice cake
1816
stop, butterfly
once more, stop!
on the sake cup
1816
to the kitten's
death anniversary it flits...
little butterfly
1816
two by two
spring's first butterflies
arrive
1816
spring's first butterflies--
three couples!
five couples!
1816
licking the lap-baby's
cheek...
little butterfly
1816
"Come this way, this way
blind man!"
little butterfly
1816
hey butterfly
move aside!
bath water's splashing
1816
counting heads
in a hot tub...
little butterfly
1816
life in the world--
even butterflies from morning on
must toil!
1816
in the pigeon's thicket
on the sparrow's fence...
clamshells
1816
secluded house--
day after day more
baby grass
1816
my umbrella-hat
left on the baby grass...
a hot bath
1816
little mustard flowers
what devil
plucked so many?
1816
in the middle
of flowering mustard
Mount Asama's smoke
1816
mustard flowers
in the thicket, hushed
have bloomed
1816
an eel shop eel
is escaping!
plum blossoms
1816
plum tree--
under blossoms' shine
an evening prayer
1816
betting seashells
they gamble...
plum blossoms
1816
Katsushika--
three hundred shops
under the plum blossoms
1816
gate's plum tree--
the family's good fortune
in bloom
1816
the monkey chewing
on a pipe...
plum blossoms
1816
don't throw
those offering coins!
plum blossoms
1816
sparrows spill their food--
plum trees
in bloom
1816
Tsurayuki's plum blossoms!
attached
to a sickle moon
1816
Sir Toad
on a secret mission...
plum blossoms
1816
sickle moon--
I glide from plum blossoms
to Buddha's image
1816
just for lonely me...
great moon!
plum blossom scent!
1816
scattering cherry blossoms
please pardon
my pipe!
1816
a fistful of fallen
cherry blossoms too...
gamblers' pot
1816
cherry blossoms--
a floating world of pleasure
has begun
1816
going about
in cherry blossom light...
Pure Land priest
1816
a nuisance--
mountain cherry blossom
rumors fly
1816
even around here
paltry cherry trees...
Kyoto
1816
fried rice emerges
from my pouch...
cherry blossoms!
1816
a child pissing
"Look! Look!"
cherry blossoms
1816
it's New Year's Day
to these old eyes...
cherry blossoms
1816
praise Buddha!
sleeping in the light
of cherry blossoms
1816
it's gambling money
here in Japan...
cherry blossoms
1816
a vegetable hodgepodge
on butterbur leaves...
mountain cherry blossoms
1816
to this world for the old
Peach Boy, come out!
peach blossoms
1816
just for fun
a peach blossom
in the horse's mouth
1816
gracing the gate
of a non-drinker too...
a greening willow
1816
giving the big dog
a tickle...
willow tree
1816
at the cemetery guard's
gate too...
a green willow rustles
1816
pipe in my mouth--
smoking's allowed here
by my gate's willow
1816
mutual aid
for ruined house and hut...
willow
1816
drooping willow--
the gate's crookedness
not quite hidden
1816
a Sixth Month
with not one decent evening...
ends
1816
our night of carousing
sure is short...
but fun!
1816
my rice field
the greatest sight of all!
summer's early dawn
1816
in the short night
the dew works fast...
blades of grass
1816
short summer night--
the serene and still
cherry blossoms
1816
short summer night--
dew forming on grass
way behind schedule
1816
a hot night's pilgrimage
with song...
Zenkô Temple
1816
while they discuss
how hot the night is...
unnoticed moon
1816
in a big house's
big raindrops from the eaves...
the heat
1816
growing fat eating
growing fat sleeping...
summer heat
1816
tired of sleeping
tired of eating...
the heat
1816
"Ah cool air! cool air!"
even while saying this
I'm alone
1816
tied to the tree
where cool wind blows
my child
1816
in cool air
"what a good tumble!"
I cheer
1816
in the evening cool
no village
of outcastes
1816
cool air--
is rain coming from
Buddha's direction?
1816
morning glories
want to become bamboo...
June rain
1816
the garden greens
itching to be cut...
June rain
1816
the planted azaleas
in full glory...
June rain
1816
proclaiming the Fifth Month
rain's first day...
a crow
1816
the heron too
dejected in his home...
June rain
1816
somehow or another
June rain will come...
thatched hut
1816
rain shutter storage box
hanging from bamboo...
June rain
1816
wind-blown plume grass--
June rains begin!
they begin!
1816
in the thicket shade
he sharpens his sickle...
June rain
1816
go, horsefly
through the ripped paper door!
June rains are over
1816
now that wildflowers
are all made...
June rains end
1816
to a reed pipe's
chilly notes...
June rains end
1816
leaving Mount Asama
coming this way...
little cloudburst
1816
with a light touch
morning's cloudburst...
teahouse
1816
distant storm--
each one of the watchers
has his opinion
1816
one house
in one summer rain...
dead center
1816
"Please stop answering
our prayers, cloudburst!"
we cry
1816
taking flight
from the cloudburst...
a swallow
1816
in the cloudburst
the big lantern's
halo
1816
the cloudburst moves along
doing good...
farmhouse
1816
rainstorm--
an annoyed look
on the toad's face
1816
shining bright
one and all...
the billowing clouds
1816
big cloud--
though with lofty peaks
it creeps along
1816
one by one
they fall and crumble...
the peaks of clouds
1816
a suitable mountain
for me...
cloud without peaks
1816
cloud becomes a mountain
becomes
a cloud
1816
around the lamp
insects swarm...
wind on the greenery
1816
my hut--
to the left pure water
to the right the moon
1816
my humble hut's rice field
all alone...
so green
1816
wind wafts
rice field so green...
travelers in bathrobes
1816
the rice fields
greener and greener!
flute practice
1816
stopping for tea
by rice fields so green...
pilgrims to Kyoto
1816
the world of dew
so fast turns green...
rice fields
1816
copy cat--
the hut's gate's rice field, too
is green
1816
a good wind--
beyond the green rice fields
Northern Mansion
1816
with high spirits
the kite ascends...
green rice fields
1816
on his finger
one penny...
Buddha's birthday
1816
before the gate
an old man's homemade
birthday Buddha
1816
the dog too
lies prostrate...
evening purification
1816
riding the purification doll
the lice
float away
1816
eaves thatched with irises
then right away...
swallows
1816
the pony tries
to take a bite...
thatch of irises
1816
secluded house--
here they pluck irises
for thatch
1816
my hut's
thatch of irises, even the cat
can reach it
1816
about ten decorate
the bamboo grass...
rice dumplings
1816
after a scolding
the weary cormorants
dive again
1816
the weary cormorant
turns back to her children
turns back...
1816
night moon--
while cormorants must work
sake in a teacup
1816
wiping and wiping his sweat
with his loincloth
as he talks
1816
at my hut
even the grass this summer
lost weight
1816
looking behind me
more young folk...
new summer robes
1816
like everyone--
I change from rags
to summer robe
1816
the child doesn't know
it's borrowed...
new summer robe
1816
just today
I wish I had neighbors...
my new summer robe
1816
rain falls
on the celebration...
the change to summer robes
1816
in a hand tub his fish
is allowed to play...
new summer robe
1816
outside my gate
a floating world of pleasure...
new summer robes
1816
how promising!
his summer kimono
already too short
1816
I spot some bamboo
good for a walking stick...
summer kimono
1816
his first summer kimono--
hurry and grow
into a menace!
1816
looking jaunty
on the horse's ladle...
summer kimono
1816
growing old--
my paper fan waving's
a bit overdone
1816
how quickly
the color fades...
red paper fan
1816
the big cat
flops down to sleep
on the fan
1816
hugging her knees
clutching her paper fan...
asleep
1816
helter-skelter
they flap and flap...
paper fans
1816
downwind
from the smudge pot smoke...
a Buddha
1816
smudge pot smoke--
just three pennies' worth
does the house
1816
the blooming flower
suddenly shivers...
smudge pot smoke
1816
the sound of fresh water
boiling...
deep in the well
1816
my hut's well--
I do its summer cleaning
by hand
1816
a quick inspection
of the well's bottom...
little butterfly
1816
deep in the well
a sound like farting...
the cleaner's voice
1816
since it's cool down there
take a little nap...
bottom of the well
1816
my child, my child
he tumbles so well!
evening cool
1816
the beards of grasses
tickling me...
evening cool
1816
the hanging worm
makes himself a raincoat...
evening cool
1816
great temple gate--
in the cool air a monk
plucks grass
1816
cooling off standing
cooling lying down...
both work
1816
knocking my pipe's ember
into my hand...
evening cool
1816
foolish frog
don't talk nonsense!
evening cool
1816
making grass green
in a perfect circle...
evening cool
1816
Musashi Plain--
a grassy place for cooling off
already occupied
1816
every evening
there's a new shit road...
cool air
1816
naughty child
though tethered enjoys
evening's cool
1816
sardines served
in butterbur leaves...
planting rice
1816
at my hut too
a rice-planting rest...
comrades
1816
Sumiyoshi--
even the rice-planting girls
are worshipped
1816
rice field weeds
at the peak of bloom...
yanked up
1816
the transplanted
barnyard grass...
the same rustle
1816
garden hill--
for planting barnyard grass too
an ancient song
1816
little fawn
not quite yet...
spoiled rotten
1816
fawn--
despite stern words
follows the man
1816
my oh my!
a fawn not friendly
with people
1816
the little bat
chirps inside
the rice gourd
1816
good job! the bat
crawls out
the rice gourd
1816
putting an umbrella-hat
over the lantern...
"Cuckoo!"
1816
don't get indigestion
from the tofu dregs!
cuckoo
1816
I scatter tofu dregs too
for his feast...
cuckoo
1816
the river porter
crossing with a swagger
a cuckoo
1816
well, well
out of the blue...
"Cuckoo!"
1816
scolding the poor
rain as well...
cuckoo
1816
are you scolding
that coin-tossing fellow?
cuckoo
1816
not despising
the tiny rice field...
cuckoo
1816
thinking I'm old
what a loud voice!
cuckoo
1816
"I'm off to that rubbish heap
Edo! Edo!"
the cuckoo
1816
rapping the bald
mountain's head...
cuckoo
1816
on the horse's back
"Yee-haw!"
a cuckoo
1816
don't try acting
the innocent babe!
cuckoo
1816
little cuckoo
sing! sing!
Issa is here
1816
cuckoo
what did you forget?
retracing steps
1816
hey cuckoo--
you're sick of people
aren't you?
1816
on a vain mountain too--
move aside! move aside!
for Sir Cuckoo
1816
rising over the village
rice cooking smoke...
"Cuckoo!"
1816
it's a good grain barn
stand your ground!
cuckoo
1816
looking at me
retracing his steps...
the cuckoo
1816
Buddha stands
drenched to the bone...
a cuckoo calls
1816
at my gate
thanks for nothing!
reed warbler racket
1816
big rain--
five hundred yards north
a moorhen's cry
1816
my rice field
is waterless...
a moorhen complains
1816
at my gate--
no moorhen crying
no farts
1816
from five hundred yards
or so it comes...
moorhen's cry
1816
hey blockhead
rolling and tumbling...
fireflies are there!
1816
don't make a racket!
just let things be
fireflies will come
1816
did you see me
slip and stumble?
flitting off firefly
1816
is my thatched hut
not to your taste?
flitting off firefly
1816
flitting firefly--
don't get tangled
in women's hair!
1816
the Buddhist priest
not up to snuff...
flitting off firefly
1816
sleeping mats--
after counting our butts
the firefly flits away
1816
first firefly--
the uncalled-for frog
vanished again
1816
viewing fireflies
I take a tumble...
"There's one!"
1816
viewing fireflies--
after tumbling down
tumbling again
1816
flickering
down the main road...
a firefly
1816
in thicket shade too
a hot bath...
flitting fireflies
1816
after kindly coming
to my gate...
a firefly flits away
1816
do you think
my hair's a thicket?
firefly
1816
naughty child
though tethered calling
fireflies
1816
through the tears
though he's tethered
calling fireflies
1816
into the soup kettle
flitting, flitting
firefly
1816
an old man's world!
when one mosquito
starts to whine
1816
tumbling
into the mosquito swarm...
a child
1816
a place
short on mosquito swarms...
sickle moon
1816
mosquito swarm--
don't block my view
of the moon!
1816
the cool breeze
blows into the mouth...
a mosquito!
1816
my home--
for the mosquitos
a famous site
1816
while traveling
even a mosquito-spurting thicket...
a blessing
1816
while praising Buddha
with wide-open mouth...
a mosquito
1816
one mosquito
seems kind of cute...
its sound
1816
the village mosquitos'
great convocation...
moon on the eaves
1816
a celebration--
this year's mosquitos too
feast
1816
in this world
even a mosquito-spurting thicket...
a refuge
1816
my home
where I even exhale
mosquitos
1816
this year
the world is good!
say the flies
1816
the samurai is ordered
to shoo the flies...
Sir Horse
1816
chasing off flies
with a pestle...
grated yam soup
1816
swatting a fly
and a blooming
wildflower
1816
chasing flies
is a two-person job...
widow
1816
when I go out
they go out...
hut's flies
1816
not a good jumper
but a cuter flea
than the rest
1816
when I release
the flea, wildflowers
start blooming
1816
even a flea
knows a technique...
for hiding
1816
keep stone still
and look! a cicada
being born
1816
a cicada chirrs--
Rokugatsu Village's
Enten Temple
1816
first cicada--
for a quick song sighted
on the post
1816
world of man--
in the mountains of course
leeches drop
1816
aware of the leeches
they enter...
marshy rice field
1816
from horseback
"So many! So many!"
summer's first bonito
1816
even in mountain shade
a taste of Edo...
first bonito
1816
purification font--
swimming plum leaves
swimming trout
1816
a flood--
the tall dayflower keeps
her cool
1816
among dayflowers
an insect
"geecho! geecho!"
1816
all spruced up
by moonflowers...
the outhouse
1816
two doors down
from the moonflowers...
my house
1816
wafting in
from the moonflowers...
the horse's fart
1816
wafting through
the moonflowers...
my fart
1816
moonflowers--
aimed at the horse's rump
one blooms
1816
in the thatched hut
medicine for sale...
poppies
1816
at my hut
southeast of Edo...
poppies
1816
the tea smoke
wafts its way...
unlucky peony
1816
my eyes glued
to its blooming...
skinny peony
1816
the grime of a thousand
houses floats too...
lotus blossoms
1816
overhang--
perched on the lotus's stem
a beggar's hut
1816
world of man--
a rice field replaces
lotus blossoms
1816
flies and horseflies
sport with them...
leftover rice plants
1816
the village child
sticks them on the dog...
rice plants
1816
the leftover rice plants
a bed
for the dog
1816
flanking the highway
on both sides...
leftover rice plants
1816
my child
in the wheat field wind...
nicely plump
1816
the crossroads Buddha
guards
one beard of wheat
1816
under the eaves
one spear of wheat
five, six feet
1816
secluded house--
extending from my pillow
this year's bamboo
1816
once on their feet
bamboo shoots, too
break
1816
spotting three shoots
of new bamboo...
the moonlit night
1816
quick-growing bamboo shoots--
the whole gang
the same
1816
cantaloupes, watermelons--
rock-a-bye
my babies
1816
my cherry blossoms
even flush with fresh leaves
scatter
1816
they sell tea
not worth a fart...
summer trees
1816
the bush warbler's hermitage
too
in thick summer grasses
1816
deep shade--
purifying hand-wash water
washing hands
1816
deep shade--
the worm, too, shakes
making his raincoat
1816
deutzia blossom gate--
famous straw sandals
for sale
1816
even the thorn bush
is blooming!
blooming!
1816
autumn cold--
even the bird's cheeks
starchy stiff
1816
it's sleepy time
in my humble hut...
skin-chilling air
1816
skin-chilling air--
Musashi Province
hundreds of miles away
1816
a sandal vendor
at the window, morning's
cold beginning
1816
loud talk
about the cold night...
over the fence
1816
delightfully the beans
roll and tumble...
a cold night
1816
going outside the fence
to fart...
a cold night
1816
nagging about
the two hundred for rent...
a cold night
1816
one by one
even the cats come home...
cold nights
1816
looking up, wrinkles
looking down, wrinkles...
a cold night
1816
end-of-month coins
jingle in the basket...
a cold night
1816
such is my life alone--
cold mornings
cold nights
1816
cold night--
even birds using glue
to stay warm
1816
moon in the autumn dawn--
prayers from a window
at Zenkô Temple
1816
the pony also
sets off on a journey...
autumn dusk
1816
parentless
I only have my shadow...
autumn dusk
1816
another year
I didn't die...
autumn dusk
1816
don't fret--
there's a second chance
for this harvest moon
1816
next to the roof beam
shining bright...
harvest moon
1816
Great Japan!
back for a second time
the same harvest moon
1816
people grumble--
the delayed moon typical
of this place
1816
amazing--
in the house I was born
seeing this moon
1816
a dim showing
as expected...
harvest moon
1816
the harvest moon
and rain showers...
about equal
1816
in harvest moonlight
keeping his cool...
scarecrow
1816
drawn forth
by the harvest moon...
mosquitos
1816
the harvest moon
met a second time
and yet...
1816
harvest moon--
until your second coming
we must wait
1816
harvest moon--
on a stone a teacup
filled with sake
1816
harvest moon--
in plume grass shadows
drinking sake
1816
harvest moon
on the mountain scarecrow's
sleeve
1816
a wretched shame--
my heart
like the autumn sky
1816
like pebbles pounding
the eaves...
autumn rain
1816
in the autumn wind
clutching my sleeve...
little butterfly
1816
autumn wind--
a homeless child's
little braided hat
1816
autumn wind--
a cock-a-doodling rooster
on the roof
1816
loafing--
even in the blossom capital
autumn wind
1816
blowing on
such a world of fools...
autumn wind
1816
every morning
enough for my tea kettle...
dew in the grass
1816
my ramshackle hut--
the dewdrops' great exertion
in vain
1816
from today on
to see is to pray...
dewdrops in the grass
1816
silver dewdrops
dropping in vain...
from the eaves
1816
life of dewdrops--
just the same
as the Buddhas
1816
such an accumulation
of golden dew...
these islands
1816
take a look!
that humungous dewdrop's
about to spill
1816
in this world--
the humungous dewdrop
collapses first
1816
mountain fog
twining 'round my legs...
sunset
1816
moo moo moo
from fog cows
emerge
1816
from the great bronze
Buddha's nostrils
clouds of fog
1816
from the great bronze
Buddha's nose fog...
softly, softly
1816
fall quickly, hide
my home village...
fog and cold rain
1816
mountain fog
just passing through...
big sitting room
1816
clear evening--
lined up in the pale blue
autumn mountains
1816
even the mountain village's
pissing place...
a field of flowers
1816
alongside
the moon blossom glow...
Bon Festival dance
1816
Osaka--
bidding the tamed pony
farewell
1816
the pony neighs--
under a full moon
led away from his mother
1816
standing in a world
of tranquility...
the scarecrow
1816
the dragonfly
settles to sleep...
on the scarecrow
1816
the farmer's lunch
dangles...
on the scarecrow
1816
accompanying
the cricket's song...
evening cloth-pounding
1816
evening cloth-pounding--
the cat that can't stand it
happy-go-lucky
1816
home village--
even in their sleep pounding
cloth
1816
one more neighbor
comes to partake...
kettle of yumiso
1816
old age--
surviving but autumn
always the same
1816
evening falls--
the snipe-hunting lackey
rises up
1816
at my gate
a rice cake-loving snipe
calling
1816
don't cry, geese!
from now on
I'm a traveler too
1816
a pretty bird
passes in silence...
migrating
1816
again and again
my same companion...
migrating bird
1816
don't pass by
my crappy house too!
migrating birds
1816
an arm for a pillow--
insects, too, do their night work
while singing
1816
lying belly-up
yet still singing...
autumn cicada
1816
swish swish
his body's husk...
dragonfly
1816
the dragonfly goes about
his night work...
moon at the gate
1816
holding fast
to the boulder...
a dragonfly
1816
at my gate
just a soot-colored
dragonfly
1816
big sweeping--
you win the fleeing contest
katydid!
1816
the katydid
on my hut's post
gnawing away
1816
katydid's song
and my tinkling in the piss-pot
weaken in the night
1816
moving to live
in the rice box...
katydid
1816
little straw mat--
dusted with flour
the katydid
1816
don't crush
the dewdrop pearls!
katydid
1816
turning over in bed--
move aside!
katydid
1816
crawling out
the wild dog's hole...
a katydid
1816
entwined
by the maiden flower...
my wrinkled foot
1816
don't shake my house
down!
maiden flower
1816
that fawn--
how old is it?
blooming bush clover
1816
the mountain well
all clogged up...
bush clover blooms
1816
blooming looseleaf
crowns it...
the gate's rice field
1816
secluded house--
enough buckwheat blooms
for one
1816
my hut's rice field
somehow pulled it off...
harvest time
1816
this world today--
even plume grass
is blown in stripes
1816
what a shame, sucking
a mushy persimmon...
most unpleasant!
1816
regretfully I've joined them--
the mushy
persimmon eaters
1816
at the palace
no puckery persimmon face...
a terrible sin!
1816
eating the puckery
persimmon, the crow
stepchild
1816
on the high branch
one puckery persimmon...
like olden times
1816
to this world for the old
Peach Boy, come out!
hollow gourd
1816
buried chestnuts--
my grave mound soon
will be like that
1816
big chestnuts--
the travelers stop
and gather
1816
if so moved
all are empty husks...
chestnut burrs
1816
with the boiled chestnuts
finished, so is
the conversation
1816
stuck deep
in green plume grass...
first mushroom
1816
holy Jizo--
for me, too, winter
begins
1816
in Tenth Month
a slice of spring...
vegetable garden
1816
proud of this Tenth Month
slice of spring...
vegetable garden
1816
dawn--
through a hole in the wall
the cold
1816
shining moon--
to the nape of my neck
the cold snap
1816
despite monks
praising the Lotus Sutra...
winter cold
1816
drawing words
in an old tray's ashes...
winter cold
1816
using his head
the high priest breaks
icicles
1816
the year's not over
but spring comes anyway...
who cares?!
1816
my money sprouted wings
and flew away...
the year ends
1816
the way things are--
through my worthless window
days grow longer
1816
vain grass--
you grow longer
as do the days
1816
the stonecutter
chop-chops the mountain...
winter moon
1816
clacking clogs
turn toward my hut...
winter moon
1816
the god Kompira's
banner fluttering...
winter moon
1816
a five or six inch
red mandarin orange...
winter moon
1816
a toy flute trills
a cane click-clacks...
winter moon
1816
a short sword
stuck in his loincloth...
winter moon
1816
vain mankind--
idling away this night
of winter moon
1816
in my wooden clogs
raising a racket!
winter moon
1816
cold moon--
the blind priest is called
in vain
1816
a cane strikes stone
clack-clack...
cold moon
1816
Gichu Temple--
I'm here too
first winter rain
1816
round and round
dried chestnut prayer beads...
first winter rain
1816
the outhouse attendant
squats...
under the winter rain
1816
a winter rain
bumps into the back
window
1816
my home village--
the winter rain targets
a standing Buddha
1816
winter rain--
burning the fire chopsticks
for fun
1816
north wall--
"storm," "winter wind,"
"hot pepper"
1816
in winter wind
basking in the sun...
"Praise Buddha!"
1816
winter wind--
behind the farmer sowing seeds
a crow
1816
Musashi Field--
squatting in snow
a samurai
1816
the iron rod
goes cling! clang!
a hailstorm
1816
the laughing Buddha
points...
at a hailstone
1816
adding to the frost
the samurai's discarded
topknot
1816
with our gods out of town
they raise a ruckus...
crows
1816
Old Man's Dearth Day--
even wild geese
peacefully form a line
1816
Basho's Death-Day--
what are you chattering
sparrows at my gate?
1816
before his shrine
falling in his honor...
first winter rain
1816
indispensible
on this Twelfth Day...
first winter rain
1816
you too owl
dedicate a haiku...
this winter rain
1816
cedar chopsticks
hold the flame...
god of wealth Festival
1816
cleaning my winter hearth--
as expected
all alone
1816
from morning on
sticking close by it...
winter hearth
1816
the pint-sized kid
cross-legged writes...
in the hearth
1816
Sir Crow too
quickly gets in line...
for soot sweeping
1816
my house--
I sweep its soot
with a fan
1816
even pounding rice cakes
at my hut, I chant
"Great Japan!"
1816
for the dog
and crow too...
pounding rice cakes
1816
row of houses--
from every one of them
a rice cake commotion
1816
the rice cake flies
smack into the dog's
open mouth
1816
the youngest child
led by hand...
rice cakes for neighbors
1816
all night the ruckus
of riverboat prostitutes...
wicker fisherman's hut
1816
wicker trap fisherman--
"You fool! You fool!"
caws the crow
1816
the wife sowing wheat--
it's that
kind of temple
1816
looking at the moon
in the pine...
skullcaps too
1816
first of the season--
the snow, too
made into Buddha
1816
at my gate too
made of snow...
little Buddha
1816
putting me into
a praying mood...
snow Buddha
1816
the farting contest
begins again...
winter seclusion
1816
in a Kyoto suburb
even "winter seclusion"...
hustle and bustle
1816
behind the rain
over Karasaki...
a little fire
1816
stomping on
my wood fire watching...
the Milky Way
1816
by the wood fire
a huge yawn...
Princess Kaguya
1816
a cozy wood fire--
the Buddhas too
all lined up
1816
great Edo--
four or five pennies
for medicinal meat
1816
after medicinal meat
it begins...
the eating binge
1816
after the pine needles
a dessert
of medicinal meat
1816
thrust into
the dried salmon's mouth
plum blossoms
1816
beating time
on a dried salmon too...
praise Buddha!
1816
the bush warbler's son
is singing!
he's singing!
1816
slaving away--
even the bush warbler
has a singing lesson
1816
at sunset
not another peep...
little wren
1816
wrens chirping--
"It's our big day
the 30th!"
1816
are you, too
waiting for good luck?
waterfowl
1816
arrogantly
he presents himself...
the pufferfish
1816
the guy who just left
looked the same...
face of a pufferfish
1816
the guy who just left
had a similar face...
pufferfish
1816
someone I know
has a similar face...
pufferfish
1816
the same color
as the winter hay...
little house
1816
putting up a fight--
withered grasses
with prickles
1816
maiden flower
for what karmic reason
do you not fade?
1816
hut's radish--
when there's a visitor
you'll be yanked
1816
devil bramble
makes its final stand...
and withers
1816
where the potato
lies buried...
autumn leaves fall
1816
not even good
at raking the leaves...
growing old
1816
when leaves fall
I pray like olden times...
sleeping on a journey
1816
great god Kompira--
flitter flutter
the leaves fall down
1816
world of man--
even raking leaves
brings a scolding
1816
the stepchild practices
calligraphy...
on fallen leaves
1816
red leaves of olden times
are falling...
purification cauldron
1816
winter withering--
we cross Sumida River
together
1816
pestles pound and grind
in mortars...
frost-killed grass
1816
grass-killing frost--
pestles and mortars
pound and grind
1816
in frost-killed grass
to Seibi's house, slowly
I go
1816
killing frost--
smoke billows
from three houses
1816
frost-killed grass
"Gimme rice!"
a sparrow sings
1816
killing frost--
what tribute can I offer
Seibi, now a Buddha?
1816
an imprudent spring
for quince and azaleas...
winter blooms
1816
with a bamboo splinter
practicing calligraphy...
the stepchild
1817
celebrating New Year's
en masse...
rice field geese
1817
little vegetable patch--
even here
it's New Year's Day
1817
warm and snug
I greet the new year...
temple verandah
1817
spear after spear
on New Year's Day
they pass
1817
at my gate
New Year's starts
at noon
1817
my shadow too
in good health...
dawn of spring
1817
though far from home
a new spring
is blossoming
1817
a new spring--
neither cow nor horse
has trod on it
1817
a made-to-order
pale blue...
the year's first sky
1817
traveling--
and a rainless day
for the year's first sky!
1817
cheer the year's
first sky...
even sparrows!
1817
through night clothes' sleeve
I take a peek...
the year's first sky
1817
the year's first sky's
first blemish...
smoke
1817
the year's first sky
gives a gift...
snow flitting down
1817
the year's first sky
hits a dead end...
Kazusa mountains
1817
back door facing south--
three directions
for my New Year's walk
1817
loneliness--
in a palanquin passing Osaka
for the Servants' Holiday
1817
homecoming servants
all stop here...
Meditation Bridge
1817
servants on holiday
carry a servant on holiday...
palanquin
1817
the homecoming servants
pay their share...
Hoga Bridge
1817
the Servants' Holiday is over--
the dog, too, sees him off
in the mist
1817
homecoming servant--
tears precede everything
for the parents
1817
Servants' Holiday--
two sighted
on Mount Matchi
1817
servants on holiday--
three of them
on Narita Road
1817
in his courtier's cap
flopped down to sleep...
first day of Rat
1817
with a sword strapped on
he sleeps on the lawn...
first day of Rat
1817
to my hut too
New Year's arrives...
rice cake soup vendor
1817
after pounding
the seven herbs of health...
he sleeps
1817
picking herbs
seeing vinegared water...
Sumida River
1817
a head popping out
of a sleeve of night clothes...
a New Year's herb
1817
on the rice cake mill
the rooster sings too
"Oh Great Japan!"
1817
spring rain--
in the thicket
a discarded letter blows
1817
spring breeze--
a dog stretched to sleep
in the ferryboat
1817
spring breeze--
an eight-penny play
a tea-and-dumpling shop
1817
spring breeze--
forty-nine grannies
on the Shinano road
1817
waving umbrella-hats
farewell! farewell!
thin mist
1817
voices in the dry goods store
hang
on the mist
1817
the barking dog
is wearing a robe...
of mist
1817
travelers in bathrobes--
snow has melted
clean away!
1817
the last snow pile--
straw clogs make it
a delight
1817
a row of houses--
even melting snow
costs money
1817
snow has melted--
plenty of elbow room
for the hackberry tree
1817
snow melting--
three herons perch
on the rice cake tub
1817
drop by drop--
some migrating servant's
rain of tears
1817
plowing the field
he keeps the mountain ridge pine
company
1817
bobbing and weaving
a chicken stays close by...
tree grafting
1817
at daybreak
what grumpy faces...
Mr. and Mrs. Cat
1817
my hut's cat
with a hoarse voice
goes carousing
1817
so love-crazed
he chases a chicken...
tomcat
1817
into hell's mirror
look! look!
lover cat
1817
the rain in bamboo
a drenching bath...
lover cat
1817
he sleeps, he wakes
has a big yawn...
the cat goes courting
1817
foolish cat--
putting his whole body
into his yowl
1817
just a glance
at the yowler on the roof...
lazy cat
1817
mountain temple--
with the Founder's blessing
cats make love
1817
if he finds a good place
he won't return...
love-crazed cat
1817
my cat is known
as a thief of hearts
scandalous!
1817
mother cat
plays hide-and-seek...
with her kittens
1817
baby sparrow
is O-Take Buddha
at the sink
1817
is the bush warbler weeping
at your cloudiness?
Mount Suzuka
1817
bush warbler
a fount of life
at the grave
1817
a bush warbler singing
included in the price...
five-penny tea
1817
bush warbler
in the big sake cup's
wet color
1817
bush warbler--
he doesn't mind
my pipe smoke
1817
bush warbler--
did you come ten years after
the Future Buddha?
1817
up to today
such great perserverance...
goose at my gate
1817
after many nights
telling me bedtime stories
the geese have left
1817
visiting the cat
on the turned-over tub...
little butterfly
1817
the butterfly too
on the scales of karma
is weighed
1817
don't dip your butt
in that mud!
huge butterfly
1817
spring butterfly
peaceful, calm...
in the seat of honor
1817
don't be mean
to that horsefly
paper door!
1817
once again
giving a horsefly grief
skylight
1817
the hand that broke off
the plum blossom branch...
in hell's mirror
1817
plum blossom thievery--
added to the account book
of hell's judge Emma
1817
in plum blossom scent
they stop fighting...
crows
1817
plum blossoming--
how the lice's grandchildren
play!
1817
plum blossoms--
I enter in my account book
"cash for sake"
1817
cursing like sailors
in the plum tree...
crows
1817
little child--
while Mama helps him pee-pee
plum blossoms
1817
on one side
sandal tracks, the other
plum blossoms
1817
the toy flute seller
clatters along...
plum blossoms
1817
young buck--
how many is he taking?
plum blossoms
1817
mocked
by the sparrows...
the field's blooming plum trees
1817
though smoky
with incense
plum trees in bloom
1817
the Buddha in the field
with a red skullcap...
plum blossoms
1817
a village of slackers
lackadaisical
plum blossoms
1817
the lazy dog
barks lying down...
plum trees in bloom
1817
travel journal--
one moon
one blooming plum tree
1817
road to Kyoto--
at the pickled plum teahouse
plum blossoms
1817
cool and calm
deep in the thorn thicket...
blooming plum
1817
growing feeble--
breaking off blossoms
with twisted mouth
1817
deep wooded mountains--
home-grown in Shinano
glorious blossoms
1817
grandma's rice cakes
grandpa's cherry tree
in bloom
1817
trees lined up
cramped together...
mountain cherry blossoms
1817
for three pennies
a cherry tree for planting...
Yoshino Hill
1817
even a layman
praises Amida Buddha...
cherry blossoms fall
1817
distracting the fisherman
now and then...
cherry blossoms
1817
for the fisherman
they're a nuisance...
evening cherry blossoms
1817
peace to the world
from time immemorial...
cherry blossoms
1817
rain shower--
at a Sixth Month village
Enten Temple
1817
such elaborate
wildflowers bloomed!
in one short night
1817
from one short night--
how intricate
the wildflowers
1817
short summer night--
a riverside play's
lacquered faces
1817
short summer night--
the grasses bloom
swish, swish, swish!
1817
a short summer night
of rejoicing...
secluded village
1817
choked by the heat
of Sunayama...
a little boat
1817
prostitutes look me over
from their boat
in the heat
1817
evening cool--
fishing for soup stock
in his back door sea
1817
just saying the words
"my house"
the cool air!
1817
rainy season--
a crab strolls into
the big sitting room
1817
half asleep--
is that rainy season rain
again today?
1817
the rainy season is over
everywhere else...
Mount Hakone
1817
some "clear day"!
rainy season clouds again
on the mountain
1817
splish splash
drenched in June rain
Lotus Field
1817
must you start
with my thatched hut?
June rain
1817
patting dry his forehead
doused the cloudburst...
tree shade
1817
cloudbursts--
the village that doesn't pray
gets three
1817
lying spread-eagle
and watching...
the peaks of clouds
1817
once again
grannies, wear them too!
pots on heads
1817
at sunset's bell
they scatter...
cormorant boats
1817
going out the gate
the cormorant's treated royally...
wife, child
1817
the whole town sleeps
while the cormorants
toil
1817
after praying for rain
in a mood
to shoot the musket
1817
for the mosquitos
life is good...
a naked party
1817
like everyone else
clothes-changing is fun...
new summer robe
1817
when I'm dead
who'll wear it next?
new summer robe
1817
even the loafer
looks imperial!
new summer robe
1817
his prayers for pay
pay off...
a new summer kimono
1817
drinking tea alone
on the month's first day...
green bamboo blinds
1817
recycling--
waste paper mosquito net!
mosquito net!
1817
the moon shines--
this paper mosquito net
my home
1817
the face on my paper fan
is shameless...
but a saint!
1817
with a face
come down from heaven
she is fanning
1817
covering
my sinful mouth...
my paper fan
1817
if you go out
to enjoy the cool air...
grovel and grovel!
1817
falling to my back
spread eagle...
the cool air
1817
a crab, too
climbs the pine tree...
evening cool
1817
how old
is that fawn?
spring mountain
1817
the wise priest's
pampered favorite...
a fawn
1817
moon at the gate--
the mosquito-eating bats
prosper
1817
not backing down
even an inch...
Edo cuckoo
1817
just now
he's off to Mount Fuji...
cuckoo
1817
the setting moon--
you just missed it
cuckoo!
1817
great Edo--
amid the hustle and bustle
a cuckoo
1817
in Great Edo
fearing no evil...
the cuckoo
1817
a lucky, lucky
MOST lucky day
"Cuckoo!"
1817
of all the gods
which ones are real?
cuckoo
1817
from today on
let no one out-sing you!
Edo cuckoo
1817
crawling across a bridge
far below...
"Cuckoo!"
1817
cuckoo--
even Fifth Month, Eighth Day
is lucky!
1817
into Watanobe's plume grass
off you go!
cuckoo
1817
come back tomorrow
and the next day
mountain cuckoo!
1817
taking turns
with the prayer gong...
mountain cuckoo
1817
till I return
guard my hut...
mountain cuckoo
1817
don't catch scabies
from me!
mountain cuckoo
1817
don't stay long
and get caught in the ivy!
mountain cuckoo
1817
shame on you
you're all mouth!
reed warbler
1817
a face like
he's lodging a complaint...
the toad
1817
secluded house--
the wounded firefly
rushes inside
1817
at dawn he goes
nagging and grumbling...
mosquito
1817
my hut's mosquitos
go out to make a living...
moon at dusk
1817
hut's mosquitos--
my hand's done
with shooing them
1817
a sudden attack
from behind...
clever mosquito
1817
whining mosquitos
leave in a straight line...
row house
1817
evening mosquito
laughing
at my inattention
1817
will I too
have a liesurely next life?
fly on umbrella-hat
1817
the mouth that gnawed
a flea: "All praise
to Amida Buddha!"
1817
into the big river
tossing her lice...
pretty woman
1817
river at the gate--
summer's first bonito
look fresh enough to swim away
1817
firewood shed--
a hollyhock stretches high
to take a look
1817
just stretch high--
my hollyhock, you can't see
the festival!
1817
stretch, hollyhock!
you can't see the festival
at all
1817
covered with trash--
a hollyhock
still blooming
1817
move aside
horseflies and bees!
lotuses are blooming
1817
in a place
where no light flickers
the perfect lotus
1817
a little child
smoking a pipe...
ripened wheat
1817
at the field's edge
sake for sale...
ripened wheat
1817
curled up to sleep--
his pillow
a muskmelon
1817
cooling the white umbrella-hat
just a tad...
tree shade
1817
deep shade--
the fasting dog
rolls and rolls
1817
feeling for the tobacco tray
with my feet...
a cold night
1817
digging a tea cake
out of the hearth...
a cold night
1817
beards of grasses
stuck-up they stand...
a cold night
1817
the cricket
cranks up the volume...
a cold night
1817
putting the rice tub's
raincoat on...
a cold night
1817
dyeing the hands
indigo blue...
the cold night
1817
the blabbering fool
pokes out his nose to sniff...
a cold night
1817
on one side
a sleep talker...
a cold night
1817
in mountain chill
under his reed mat
curled to sleep
1817
mountain chill--
in the rice cake tub
a katydid sings
1817
a chill comes down the mountain
a chill comes up...
night in my hut
1817
red clouds--
above the butterfly too
autumn dusk
1817
don't cry, geese!
your inn is wherever
the autumn moon shines
1817
harvest moon--
plume grass tossed
in the offering box
1817
restless sleep--
tea cakes in the hut
for Ninth Month moon
1817
autumn rain--
the weaned pony
begins his journey
1817
thatched hut--
everything drenched
by the autumn rain
1817
the tobacco
has a green smell...
autumn wind
1817
autumn wind--
tomorrow they throw you away
old woman
1817
autumn wind--
the back sitting room's door
half open
1817
in autumn wind
a homeless crow
is blown
1817
completely empty
the main temple...
autumn wind
1817
autumn wind--
walking along the valley's cliff
my shadow
1817
how much
for two quarts?
pearls of dew
1817
happiness--
this year's dewdrops too
in my hot bath
1817
look! old women
getting thrown away...
dew in the grass
1817
a samisen plucking
gently, gently...
dewy lotuses
1817
silver dewdrops--
without fussing
become round
1817
with Buddha's peace
I gaze upon it...
dewy grass
1817
this year too
with crazy dewdrops...
boiled rice
1817
this crazy dewdrop world
so good!
better than good!
1817
it's a dewdrop world
surely it is...
yes... but...
1817
one by one
collecting dewdrops...
brewing tea
1817
become Priest Tokuhon's
prayer to Buddha...
dew on stone
1817
round dewdrops
crooked dewdrops...
all very busy
1817
on my scrawny vegetables
it glitters too...
autumn dew
1817
my hut--
where even beads of dew
are bent
1817
my hut--
the humungous dewdrops
make me proud
1817
a little orphan
dancing the Bon dance!
singing the Bon song!
1817
this moon--
Bon dances ended
yesterday
1817
a good world!
a hurried Bon dance
a shining moon
1817
a good rain--
two-penny fireworks
in the night
1817
a tree filled
with clinging people...
sumo match
1817
newly made
the mountain scarecrow
is a wonder
1817
a cowherd--
his flute and evening's
cloth-pounding mingle
1817
seeing that I'm old
he starts pounding cloth...
nearby
1817
growing old--
nearby cloth-pounding
better than distant
1817
utterly rhythmless
at my house!
evening cloth-pounding
1817
impaling its prey
the shrike too...
guardian god festival
1817
rising smoke
rising snipe, even a man
is rising
1817
a snipe flies--
suddenly the evening
is ancient
1817
a snipe flies--
in the evening a samisen
is plucked
1817
the newly arrived goose
stands on one leg...
deep in thought
1817
green insect
and brown insect...
night in my hut
1817
in the paper lantern
for a quick chirp...
green insect
1817
among the insects
not a single old voice
is heard
1817
don't cry, insects!
we're all headed
for the same exit
1817
trusting in a man's
twists and turns...
autumn butterfly
1817
in the whirlwind
like sticky rice cakes...
autumn butterflies
1817
departing for the festival
all in red
dragonfly
1817
getting drenched
with big, blinking eyes...
dragonfly
1817
just for fun
the locust goes swimming...
lake
1817
a quick dip
in the lake...
locust
1817
catching a ride
on the ditch water...
locust
1817
little straw mat--
on the mountain of rice
katydid
1817
on one side
the sound of the piss pot...
on the other, a katydid
1817
how annoying!
among chrysanthemums too
the nobles win
1817
chrysanthemums bloom--
the mountain's head, too
turns white
1817
the war lord
has pull...
chrysanthemum contest
1817
if it weren't for people
they'd not grow crooked...
chrysanthemums
1817
losing the contest
surprise! the lord's chrysanthemum
won
1817
used to losing
I'm peaceful, calm...
chrysanthemum
1817
my chrysanthemum--
she faces the direction
she chooses
1817
crushed
by morning glories...
my door
1817
little Tama River
go ahead, bloom here!
bush clover
1817
my hut--
in the bamboo, a crow
in the bush clover, a cat
1817
don't block it!
the mountain's buckwheat
blooming white
1817
Shinano road--
blooming buckwheat's whiteness
makes me shiver
1817
buckwheat blooming--
that whiteness
makes me shiver
1817
fatten the belly
of Tokuhon!
buckwheat blossoms
1817
Hayayama
has turned all white...
blooming buckwheat
1817
each and every one
has come to blossom...
sun-warmed rice
1817
quickly stuffing
the temple gong...
red leaves
1817
my child
shoulders the load...
paulownia leaf
1817
with a singing cicada
softly...
one leaf falls
1817
my hut's persimmons
even in a bumper crop year...
laughable
1817
overturning the cold
of morning...
roses of Sharon
1817
for generations
from this poor hedge...
roses of Sharon
1817
encircling the house
that emits no smoke...
roses of Sharon
1817
the big chestnut
shares his prickly home
with a worm
1817
chestnuts not gathered
crunching
crunching
1817
two kids--
"Divide those chestnuts
about evenly!"
1817
mushroom gathering--
but the children
got them all first
1817
the hand that made
a butt-print rice cake...
picks a mushroom
1817
from on her back
a child's voice...
"Mushroom!"
1817
one serving
on my house pillar too...
mushrooms
1817
through the thin wall
the cold barges
in
1817
dismounting--
the cold snap hits
the servant's butt
1817
night in the hut--
the deep deep heart
of coldness
1817
a protecting charm
tied to the tree too...
winter cold
1817
down to the bone
bitter cold...
a novice priest
1817
my home village--
living in this cold
unbearable
1817
a pilgrimage
before the ice melts...
Zenkô Temple
1817
back door--
feeling in my stomach
the cracking ice
1817
one seasoning
for the one-day pickles...
ice
1817
carrying rice
while singing a ditty
crossing ice
1817
crunch crunch
chewing on ice...
tea-and-rice
1817
walking along
smoking the dregs...
thin ice
1817
reed fence--
a ball of ice
beginning to form
1817
my house's
only hand towel
frozen stiff
1817
from the tip
of the field Buddha's nose...
an icicle
1817
my house--
even the first icicle
soot-stained
1817
falling on only
three houses...
steady winter rain
1817
the stepchild's finger
in his mouth...
winter rain
1817
in winter wind
unladylike she crouches
astride the brazier
1817
winter wind--
wrapped in tree leaves
a salted fish
1817
winter wind--
wrapped in reed mats
a little house
1817
winter wind--
in the eaves an insect cage
and dried persimmons
1817
winter wind--
armed with a ruler
the little merchant
1817
the first snowfall
scratched to bits...
crows
1817
"First snowfall!"
this year the voice
is weaker
1817
first snow--
on the desktop
a snowball
1817
someday, someday--
no devilish snow
will bury the town
1817
someday, someday--
there'll be no more
talk of snow
1817
clinging fast
to my house's rear wall...
beggarly snow
1817
night work frenzy
at the big house...
snow piling up
1817
just a smidgen of light
from the snow...
latrine alley
1817
a sake bottle rolling
on the dirt floor...
morning snow
1817
we should have
seen this together...
snowy pine
1817
bottoms up
the kettles drying
on the snow
1817
parents still working
late at night...
evening snow
1817
snow falling--
a sluggish pilgrimage
to the main temple
1817
snow falling--
ready since yesterday
hot bath steam
1817
snow is falling
in Shinano...
deep in Shinano
1817
snow is falling
so back to work...
blind masseur's flute
1817
snow falling--
a crow caws at the darkness
of deep winter
1817
snowy day--
practicing writing
in the tray's ashes
1817
hailstones not welcome--
to this mountain recess
of red leaves
1817
dug out
from a hole in the post...
hailstone
1817
the child carries
her cloth monkey...
hailstones
1817
to the town's center
under a table he goes...
hailstones
1817
a winnowing basket
is the child's hat...
hailstones
1817
the first winter rain
didn't forget...
the twelfth day!
1817
olden times tug at the heart--
the Old Man's
wooden bowl
1817
after sunset
becoming authentic...
god of wealth festival
1817
naked bodies
so gingerly bathe...
cold water
1817
my hut's soot--
a storm kindly
does the sweeping
1817
my hut's soot--
just blowing it
does the job
1817
my hut's soot--
going through the motions
of sweeping it
1817
sweeping the soot
washing the fence...
sickle moon
1817
play in this soot
I swept!
gate's sparrows
1817
chickens trampling
the rice cakes...
a comedy
1817
the sound of pounding--
millet dumpling
being made
1817
the fresh rice cake
goes flying...
the dog's mouth
1817
in this world
even my kneading makes
rice cakes!
1817
pigeons and sparrows
come! come!
I've got rice cakes
1817
Fukagawa--
on a boat, too, a party
drinks away the year
1817
from the bill collector
a ladle full
of water
1817
bad at dying
the wheat is well trained...
evening's wooden drum
1817
on the road
even a cat's futon
I borrow
1817
putting on snowshoes
going outside...
for no reason
1817
the bathhouse boy
displays a holy image...
snow Buddha
1817
the puppy
chases after it...
snowball
1817
this year it doesn't reach
the hackberry tree...
my snowball
1817
mother dog
blocks with her butt...
snowball
1817
mother dog
opens it with her head...
snow shed
1817
the stray dog
opens it with his butt...
snow shed
1817
the stray dog
wriggles in head-first...
snow shed
1817
for the expert
at swatting flies...
winter seclusion
1817
pilgrims' songs
sung for nothing...
winter brazier
1817
a war lord
drenching wet, passes
my cozy brazier
1817
this vain life
what a shame...
constant brazier
1817
at first so good
a foot pushes
the foot-warmer
1817
how shameful--
with my charcoal-stained
palms...
1817
for this world
ignorant of how to write...
home village charcoal
1817
buried then
bursting to life...
charcoal flame
1817
frightfully temporary
this floating world...
charcoal on the scale
1817
a good omen--
the poorly buried
charcoal flame
1817
some priest's
wood fire burning...
solitary house
1817
a cozy wood fire--
the high priest also
takes a seat
1817
even breaking firewood
with my knee...
a feat
1817
though night is pitch black
the banked fire
works fine
1817
go ahead, laugh
prostitute on my fan!
medicinal meat
1817
why so restless
restless, restless?
little wren
1817
it's your big day
the 30th of Ninth Month!
wren
1817
a wren
on the dog's prowling route
creeps
1817
little wren
in falling rain drenched
to the bone
1817
here and there
in little meetings...
plovers
1817
going out to piss
for the hundredth time...
plovers in the night
1817
bright moon--
the plovers all buried
in the house's thatch
1817
a huge convention!
plovers
on the beach
1817
is the falling snow
medicine for your voices
plovers?
1817
winter wind too
must enter your dream...
sleeping waterfowl
1817
with red leaves
on their heads, the waterfowl
asleep
1817
chrysanthemums, too
in the withering mix...
temple road
1817
even the grasses
that stab people
clumsily wither
1817
withered grassland--
once upon a time there was
a she-demon...
1817
a battle royal
with radishes...
children
1817
sunny place--
even a willow of Edo
withers
1817
in fallen leaves
the crow who respects
his parents
1817
burying the latrine
of the lover cat...
fallen leaves
1817
red leaves fall
into the sparrow trap...
caught
1817
grass-killing frost--
a fly on the paper door
looking cute
1817
killing frost--
on the gate of my hut too
night watchman's note
1817
bad at dying
their noses say...
Zenkô Temple
1817
without you--
the grove
is just a grove
1818
oh gods
this year again I pray...
two children, please?
1818
spring is new...
twenty days
in my winter coat
1818
First Month--
even at the outcaste's porch
plum blossoms
1818
First Month--
tonight a night
of plum blossom moon
1818
crawl and laugh--
from this morning on
a two-year-old!
1818
at my feet
a bird springs up
with the spring!
1818
new spring
Yataro dies, priest Issa
is born
1818
spring has sprung--
a one-day, two-day
sickle moon
1818
with millet dumplings
a peaceful spring
rolls in
1818
morning's raindrops trace
the wrinkles of my hands...
year's first day
1818
in the storehouse
the hoe glinting...
year's first dawn
1818
at my hermitage
it starts at noon...
the year's first day
1818
year's first sunrise--
even the hoe
gets a prayer
1818
we follow our feet
to the village...
our New Year's walk
1818
bush warbler--
through a half-folded folding door
my New Year's walk
1818
a big snow--
the exit tunnel
is my lucky direction
1818
deep in Saga--
my New Year's walk
follows holes made by canes
1818
edge of a field--
my New Year's walk
follows holes made by canes
1818
lit by the New Year's
shelf...
the hoe's halo
1818
New Year's shelf--
from a dark nook
a lucky mouse
1818
my hut--
it's a crooked path
to the New Year's shelf
1818
hauled up
in the bamboo basket...
a sparrow!
1818
Little New Year's--
and the moon has deigned
to rise!
1818
Little New Year's
on the First Month's
15th day
1818
New Year's bonfire
and a New Year's snow
coming down
1818
clinging to
the eternal youth ornament
the crying child
1818
sucking on
the eternal youth ornament...
sleeping child
1818
the puppy plays
hide-and-seek...
New Year's pine
1818
Karasaki--
even from the New Year's pine
evening rain
1818
Great Japan!
even an ownerless grave
decorated with pine
1818
sleeping alone--
my New Year's pine
in evening rain
1818
chosen from
the dregs...
my New Year's pine
1818
beyond the reach
of the red horse's mouth...
New Year's rope
1818
a New Year's wreath
for the crossroads Buddha's
head
1818
don't run away!
water to douse
a 50 year-old husband
1818
no mercy
from water-dousing...
50 year-old husband
1818
imperial Japan--
even from the quince hedge
"Happy New Year!"
1818
Katsushika--
from across the river
"Happy New Year!"
1818
splish-splash
with muddy straw sandals...
"Happy New Year!"
1818
samurai street--
even from the quince thicket
"Happy New Year!"
1818
a good world--
even from the quince thicket
"Happy New Year!"
1818
tea smoke--
my year's first water
from Sumida River
1818
bathing in the
New Year's water...
my proxy the sparrow
1818
greedily using up
the year's first water...
the woman
1818
New Year's water--
I swell with pride
for these white hairs!
1818
New Year's water--
I fetched it too
with my neighbor's bucket
1818
year's first water--
sparrows in a row
with healthy faces
1818
year's first water--
the first goes to Buddha's
bucket of branches
1818
the dog chewing
the shuttlecock
comes running along
1818
the shuttlecock reaches
its edge...
crescent moon
1818
while the shuttlecock
goes tumbling...
one!
1818
begging actors--
their rice sack with a crest
from Kyoto
1818
begging actors--
blown along by an east wind
a sack of rice cakes
1818
age of the gods!
even for me a square
of rice cake soup
1818
even Kintoki
is grimacing...
rice cake soup
1818
though we say
"Happy New Year!"
rice cake soup for two
1818
Mount Fuji dawn--
a New Year's sake toast
at my lips
1818
barrier gate--
a New Year's sake toast
to Mount Fuji
1818
a New Year's toast
on his shaved head...
he goes forth
1818
a wet color
in morning's faint light...
spiced sake bag
1818
while the hot stone
in the futon cools...
picking herbs
1818
beaten out
by the women...
picking herbs
1818
the crane-shaped snow
melts drop by drop...
picking herbs
1818
two or three leaves
then calling it quits...
picking herbs
1818
the sickle moon
curls up, winter's cold
returns
1818
spring peace--
sticky rice cake snow
sticky, sticky
1818
not pouting, asleep
under an umbrella-hat...
a spring day
1818
in the long spring day
writhing in pain...
in shame
1818
a long spring day--
here too everyone's
curled asleep
1818
long spring day--
stubbornly resilient
snow in the thicket
1818
a long spring day--
his account book serves
as a pillow
1818
long spring day--
I watch them working
in the fields
1818
long spring day--
Usui mountains pressing
on my chest
1818
"It's a foolishly long
day!"...the crow opens
his mouth
1818
the day is devilishly
long!
long!
1818
plum blossoms, where?
Second Month snow
two or three feet deep
1818
plum blossoms, where?
snow falls in clumps
among the sparrows
1818
improving the mood
of the geese and ducks...
spring snow
1818
my home village--
spring snow falling
quite politely
1818
my village--
even the spring snow
two or three feet!
1818
are you finally
bidding farewell?
lingering frost
1818
the pigeon too
sings at six a.m.
spring rain
1818
dawn--
in a stone's hollow
spring rain
1818
under their parasols
crossing Mount Hakone...
spring rain
1818
deer gamboling
in the grass...
spring rain
1818
little shrine
with rice cake, of course...
spring rain
1818
no drinking, no smoking
allowed...
spring rain
1818
licking a bamboo leaf's
spring rain...
mouse
1818
from the temple's great gate
long drops from the eaves...
spring rain
1818
the hanging shelf's
azaleas bloom...
spring rain
1818
spring rain--
hitting the windows
that cost me so much
1818
spring rain--
backsliding gamblers
and a night sermon
1818
spring rain--
beards in a row
at the paper door
1818
spring rain--
in the window they haggle
over fish
1818
blowing from the raindrops
from the eaves...
spring wind
1818
the spring breeze
dries the horse...
field by the gate
1818
spring breeze--
a woman also crosses
Mount Hakone
1818
spring breeze--
the servant girl
has a little sword
1818
spring breeze--
after twists and turns
Hoga Bridge
1818
through snow
falling a spring breeze
is blowing
1818
a snapping turtle too
crows the time...
spring moon
1818
hazy night--
sake is flowing
waterfall and moon
1818
great lanterns
with the plum blossom crest...
out of mist
1818
into the misty field
let's go!
refreshing our souls
1818
spring mist
and falling snow...
my home mountains
1818
bleached cotton
adds to the mist...
hanging high
1818
my home village
in the spring mist, snow
is falling
1818
even in the mist
my house
is a mess
1818
possessed
by the heat shimmers...
thatched hut
1818
heat shimmers--
walking along he preaches
his sermon
1818
heat shimmers--
among grasses of the eaves
flowers
1818
city life--
even melting snow
costs money
1818
in the big river
square slabs of snow, too
float away
1818
the gate's snow
in a perfect square
flows away
1818
firewood laid out
on the eaves...
snow is melting!
1818
on the eaves
firewood and a cat...
snow is melting!
1818
the village dog
shows the river crossing
melting snow
1818
even the sparrow
gives a victory cry...
snow is melting!
1818
snow melting--
the thin children
of the slum
1818
six feet of curtain
flapping...
the snow is melting!
1818
tea smoke--
the hut's rice seedlings
turning green
1818
the rice seedlings
my hut's adornment...
so green!
1818
rice seedlings--
an old Buddha's
worn face
1818
the rice plants
I planted, five or six
so green!
1818
a confusing mix
of rain and snow...
spring equinox
1818
the west lies
on the other shore
of the road to Zenkô Temple
1818
the little gambling shack
is pounded...
spring equinox rain
1818
in my village
snow falls pit-a-pat...
spring equinox
1818
Peach Festival--
a doll of Princess Kaguya
fired in Fukakusa
1818
"Cousin Doll"
and "Grandchild Doll"
she names them
1818
little straw mat--
in the middle of a field
eating herb cakes
1818
lined up double file
the tea pickers'
ritual dance
1818
in his little bag--
rice and few
tea leaves
1818
the high priest
joins right in...
tea-picking song
1818
a fruitful year's
letter "F" burning...
Shinano mountain
1818
lit by mountain fires
floating downriver...
night boat
1818
plowing the field
crushed underfoot...
plum blossoms
1818
mountain field--
a man plows it
for the sleeping deer
1818
a plum branch in his hand
the tree-grafting apprentice
bows
1818
grafting a tree--
I might be dead
tomorrow
1818
garden's entrance--
the tree-grafting apprentice
brings the tea
1818
when three loafers
happen to meet...
grafting trees
1818
to help digest
the rice cakes, grafting
the tree
1818
the dog bows to it
with reverence...
grafted tree
1818
"A clumsy job!"
a frog laughs
at my grafted tree
1818
breakfast rice
stuck in his whiskers...
lover cat in a rush
1818
from darkness
into darkness
the lover cat
1818
though everyone knows
his secret, still
a love-crazed cat
1818
tagging along
for the meal...
the cat's lady friend
1818
a food thief
in his spare time...
lover cat
1818
foolish cat
though tethered still crying
for love
1818
the kitten
being weighed in the scales
keeps playing
1818
dejected--
even among sparrows
a stepchild
1818
sparrow parents too
bring their children...
Zenkô Temple
1818
"Watch out for that horse!
Watch out!"
mother sparrow calls
1818
looking haggard
from her baby-sitting...
sparrow at the gate
1818
bush warbler--
morning after morning
in the hackberry tree I pray to
1818
bush warbler--
the cat under the bucket
meows
1818
bush warbler--
even strutting on the fence
a song
1818
bush warbler--
after his rounds
back to my hut
1818
hey bush warbler!
from this morning on Yataro
is Issa
1818
back window--
the first bush warbler too
a blank face
1818
wafting through trees
a beggar's flute
a bush warbler's song
1818
out of the saint's
big pot...
a lark
1818
two miles to go
to Oiwake...
a skylark!
1818
on a tiny island, too
plowing
to the lark's song
1818
"Sakamoto's that way!"
says the lark and temple bell
two miles off
1818
at a tiny market's
vegetable festival...
a skylark
1818
Matsushima--
from yonder isle
another lark
1818
island of pines--
while mist turns dark
a skylark singing
1818
a man sleeping
in a straw raincoat...
the lark's wake-up call
1818
an impromptu audience
with Lord Kaga...
a pheasant
1818
a pheasant cries--
from the rice cake tub
from the wash tub
1818
a pheasant shrieks--
a blind man crawling
across a bridge
1818
a pheasant cries
in the temple room's
dead center
1818
big rain--
soaked to the skin
the returning geese
1818
are the geese yearning
to depart...
or not?
1818
geese flying north
don't neglect to stop
for my thin smoke!
1818
even wild geese
are seduced to stay...
falling rain
1818
is today a good day
to journey too?
returning geese
1818
divorcing
the pine tree...
geese on the move
1818
on what day
will you pass my village?
geese flying north
1818
on the straw lid
of the smallpox god...
a frog
1818
the moon at your feet
look!
croaking frog
1818
after the big frog
one by one
they take their seats
1818
scattering cherry blossoms--
"I'll take 'em all!"
croaks the frog
1818
standing on tiptoe
as night falls...
croaking frog
1818
tucking themselves in
under butterbur leaves...
croaking frogs
1818
scowling
at the sickle moon...
a frog
1818
festival day--
white robed monks
and a white butterfly
1818
becoming beautiful
Buddhas, butterfly
husband and wife
1818
playing with
the big cat's tail...
a little butterfly
1818
from a hole in the temple's
pulpit, swish!
little butterfly
1818
shrine fence--
on a white flower
a white butterfly
1818
separation
among butterflies too...
white gang, yellow gang
1818
a butterfly flits--
the vast blue sky
over Tiger Gate
1818
a butterfly departs--
even Shinran's pine
remembers it
1818
Tiger Gate--
bit by bit the butterfly
enters
1818
one straw mat--
a butterfly is drying
too
1818
swinging the broom
underneath, asleep
little butterfly
1818
butterfly dance--
someone plays samisen
in the little village
1818
dance, butterfly!
someone plays samisen
amid tufted grasses
1818
called "mister"
by those who raise them...
silkworms
1818
a promising sound--
silkworms in the tray
stuff themselves
1818
like people
silkworms in the tray
take a siesta
1818
the whole village
pays them court...
silkworms
1818
the whole family
serves the midnight meal
for silkworms
1818
secluded house--
the bees also memorize
the way back
1818
at the crossroads temple
usurping the bees...
sparrows
1818
bees buzzing
people grow quiet
in the temple
1818
beehive--
safe on holy Jizo's
elbow
1818
garden at the gate--
even the naughty weeds
young and fresh
1818
on baby grass
rubbing his back...
field horse
1818
using his nose
the puppy searches
the violets
1818
"From here on in
the hut's our territory!"
violets
1818
spreading tissue paper
sitting down...
violets
1818
in the little tub
in the rice cake tub...
a mustard flower blizzard
1818
now and then
the cat scratches his face...
budding tree
1818
one house
one plum tree...
a sickle moon
1818
plum blossom scent
hot bath scent, outside
a sickle moon
1818
plum blooming
even hell's cauldrons
CLOSED
1818
plum blossoms--
in the paper door
a cat's shadow
1818
plum blossoms--
all sorts of people
pass my gaze
1818
blooming plum tree
in the hut's
unlucky direction
1818
plum blossom world--
worms in straw raincoats
are here too
1818
back-alley house--
thrust out, swaying
plum in bloom
1818
with his courtier's hat
on his high horse...
plum blossoms
1818
the big horse
rubs his rump...
plum blossoms in the field
1818
holy Jizo
stretch forth your hand!
plum blossoms
1818
little boy
laugh once more!
plum blossoms
1818
tell passers-by
my door lock's broken!
plum blossoms
1818
the sickle moon
in a fine mood too...
plum blossoms!
1818
morning star--
on my hut's unlucky side
plum blossoms
1818
even the rice cake
has a seat...
plum blossoms
1818
in hot water steam
struggling to bloom...
plum blossoms
1818
unlike me
don't let the cold defeat you!
plum blossoms
1818
the palanquin bearers
are women!
blossoming mountain
1818
today for me
no blossom viewing...
feeling afraid
1818
looking ahead
to more blossom-viewing...
a bit scary
1818
a "Dismount Your Horse" sign--
the cherry blossoms'
front door
1818
all morning
to the falling blossoms...
my farts
1818
cherry blossoms scatter
on a long, long spring day...
Ojo Temple
1818
at the field's edge
a sake vendor...
glorious blossoms
1818
breaking off blossoms--
my hiccups
are cured
1818
cherry blossoms--
playing the dandy, in my mouth
an empty pipe
1818
blossoms scatter--
under every tree
a Buddha on display
1818
blossoms scatter
toward the setting sun...
Ojo Temple
1818
in a world of blossoms
wearing an umbrella-hat...
a Buddha
1818
world of blossoms--
even among the Buddhas
parents and children
1818
all day
amid the cherry blossoms
picking fights
1818
the big horse
rubs his butt
on cherry blossoms
1818
Great Japan--
on the dark blue shop-curtains
more cherry blossoms
1818
off to see cherry blossoms--
old man with kimono
tucked behind
1818
little straw mat
splashed all over...
cherry blossoms
1818
pulling up
his fishhook he looks...
at cherry blossoms!
1818
the temple guard
sick from the crowds...
cherry blossoms
1818
sensing the sound
of lacquered clogs...
cherry blossoms scatter
1818
toward lacquered clogs
cherry blossoms
scatter
1818
waking with a big
yawn...
cherry blossoms
1818
fluttering down
mulch for the field
cherry blossoms
1818
falling, falling
all over the food...
cherry blossoms
1818
on the flesh
of the yellow rose...
a frog
1818
the yellow rose
in Fourth Month's "spring"
finally dies
1818
yellow rose
don't die! until evenings
of fireflies
1818
the green willow's
friendliness rubs off
on my house
1818
penny toss gamblers
ten games at once...
willow trees
1818
even for my truly
crappy hut, now...
a green willow!
1818
"Take a shortcut though me!"
the willow
suggests
1818
here and there
though blunt and plain...
willow trees
1818
my willow tree--
not that good
at drooping
1818
summer evening--
opening the little food box
is vexing
1818
the green vine
peeks in the window...
summer heat
1818
hot day--
here too everyone
curled to sleep
1818
hot day--
a vista of toil
in the fields
1818
hot day--
the cool abacus
for a pillow
1818
hot day--
Usui mountains pressing
on my chest
1818
hot night--
the sole of my foot
on the baby
1818
so hot! so hot!
sleeping
is a chore
1818
even men turned
into horses feel it...
horrible heat
1818
the white caterpillar
on the chestnut tree...
also is hot!
1818
Shinano road's mountains
bearing down...
the heat!
1818
what an absurdly
long day it is...
the heat!
1818
vipers live
in this grass, I've heard...
summer heat
1818
in the cool air
like Amida Buddha...
cross-legged
1818
in the cool air
like Gautama Buddha...
cross-legged
1818
cool air--
playing a reed pipe
clipped this morning
1818
cool air--
beyond the village
the prayed-for rain
1818
cool air--
digging up moss
on Mount Izuna
1818
cool air--
immeasurably strange
at the rear of house
1818
cool air--
though hungry and poor
content
1818
life in a back room--
a three-foot hole
for June rain
1818
June rain--
I stare a hole through
the house pillar
1818
June rain--
taking his seat on a rock
a toad
1818
June rain--
an incense stick stuck
in the tobacco tray
1818
June rain--
in a rain barrel
irises
1818
a rubbish heap matches
the back of the house...
June rain
1818
Mr. Toad's sour
stone Buddha face...
June rain
1818
Mr. Toad are you doing
your stone Buddha impression?
June rain
1818
round kiln--
looking through the hole
at June rain
1818
a bathhouse boy
does Zen facing a wall...
June rain
1818
remote village--
on top of the darkness
June rain
1818
quite a cloudburst
yet none-the-less...
moon in the pine
1818
three days waiting
for this cloudburst...
three drops
1818
darting to the beat
of the downpour...
a swallow
1818
rainstorm--
two or three cups, now
drink up! drink up!
1818
rainstorm--
bare-chested with a little
sake cup
1818
gliding through the cloudburst
so cleverly...
swallows
1818
the floating cloud
pushes up peaks
with ease
1818
on my sleeping mat
counting with my feet...
billowing clouds
1818
evening bell--
even the clouds convene
at the temple
1818
how good
to see a pagoda!
billowing clouds
1818
big river--
pouring into my sake cup
the summer moon
1818
summer mountain--
an excessively polite
red flower
1818
wanting to lick
the birthday Buddha...
crying child
1818
anointing the heads
of children too...
Buddha's birthday tea
1818
Buddha amid birthday flowers--
even the moon
deigns to rise
1818
the ordinary bee
struts like a peacock...
Buddha's birthday flowers
1818
Buddha's Fourth Month
Eighth Day...
red flowers
1818
the Buddha
even in beggar-town
is born
1818
wrapped in a knot
'round the tree at my gate...
summer banner
1818
briefly a swallow
clings to it...
summer banner
1818
even the cormorants
on holiday today...
festival
1818
the mother cormorant
cries at the gate
"Come home!"
1818
she answers "How old?"
with one hand...
summer kimono
1818
"She has lucky ears"
her mother says...
summer kimono
1818
how delightful--
my sweat-soaked
bathrobe!
1818
sleeping late
under my mosquito net...
call of the tofu vendor
1818
with elbows propped
on his abacus...
a siesta
1818
spread-eagle arms
legs opened wide...
siesta
1818
siesta work
for the stepchild...
picking brother's fleas
1818
singing a song
and slapping his butt...
with a fan
1818
covering his face
curled up to sleep...
a paper fan
1818
the great demoness
flits and flutters...
paper fan
1818
when it's in hand
I want to promenade...
paper fan
1818
growing old--
a sooty paper fan
works fine
1818
from the second floor
she peers at me too!
paper fan
1818
over the rented room's
threshold...
smudge pot smoke
1818
the puppy guards
my pipe-lighting tool...
evening cool
1818
scooping up the ocean
in my hands...
evening cool
1818
making the doll
sell rice cakes...
evening cool
1818
straw mat marks
on my cheek...
a cool breeze
1818
the main temple's roof
dripping long raindrops...
evening cool
1818
I sit too
at the rice planters'
dinner tray
1818
someone else's child
just ten or thereabouts...
rice-planting song
1818
back from his journey
into the saddle...
rice-planting horse
1818
in boiled wheat
and rice...
hibiscus blossoms
1818
bats flying--
for the well coifed woman in her forties too
a new summer robe
1818
don't let the rain
escape to Ishiyama!
cuckoo
1818
the sky painted
with washed-out ink...
"Cuckoo!"
1818
on the great flood's
100th anniversary...
"Cuckoo!"
1818
once again summoning
Karasaki's rain...
the cuckoo
1818
the juggler's red
sleeve cord...
and a cuckoo
1818
Jiro, go to sleep!
the foolish cuckoo
sings too much
1818
for pure white flowers
it's the Fourth Month...
"Cuckoo!"
1818
my eight-penny azaleas
are blooming...
"Cuckoo!"
1818
the cuckoo
breaking in, shuts
me up
1818
oh cuckoo--
don't disdain
these poor ears!
1818
what a racket--
chase him! chase him!
cuckoo
1818
don't go! don't go!
these are my friends
a mountain cuckoo
1818
the fat toad
posing like a hermit...
backyard thicket
1818
croaking toad
and wheat-straw whistle...
call and response
1818
by way of welcome
a sacred branch floating too...
firefly flits
1818
voices calling
here and there, perplexing
the firefly
1818
one swarm
comes from Ishiyama...
fireflies
1818
round and round
a perk for the carriage...
fireflies
1818
when we quarrel
out you go!
first firefly
1818
fly, firefly!
to this rustic, as-it-is
house of mine
1818
in the west
battling like ancients monks
fireflies
1818
does my sleeping mat
look rustic?
flitting firefly
1818
sleeping mat--
rain drips, drops
a firefly takes off
1818
the first firefly
deftly swerves away...
wind from my hand
1818
first firefly--
without sideways glance
passes by
1818
haunted Ban Town--
with all his might
a firefly flits away
1818
firefly lights--
a turtle not called for
close at hand
1818
smack in the middle
of the Old Quarter...
fireflies
1818
big town--
without sideways glance
a firefly flits away
1818
on my sleeve
catching his breath...
worn-out firefly
1818
swatting prayer beads
at a pesky mosquito...
memorial service
1818
a mosquito whines--
an old keg
my pillow
1818
from the third column
of the mosquito swarm...
a sickle moon
1818
mosquito column--
unbroken from here
to the field
1818
since you came
mosquito, have some too...
bedtime sake
1818
too much sake--
the mosquito's crazy
clamor
1818
from the outdoor shrine's
bottle of offered sake...
a mosquito
1818
forming columns
and such is playtime...
for mosquitos
1818
from one then two
the mosquito swarm...
builds
1818
stumbling down
dead drunk...
the mosquito
1818
quite a crowd
packed in the main temple...
mosquitos
1818
main temple mosquitos--
my nail
can hardly crack them
1818
straight up and down--
the mosquitos swarm
a column
1818
getting up--
at the river beach I send
fleas flying
1818
child's fleas--
it's leisure time work
picking them
1818
she counts flea bites
while her child
suckles
1818
chasing the flea--
the child
bursts into tears
1818
the stepchild's chore--
during baby's midday nap
picking fleas
1818
upside-down
the bucket's drying day...
winged ants flying
1818
oh great peony
don't disdain
this poor neighborhood!
1818
by itself
the head is bowing...
peony!
1818
its shadow, too
seven feet away...
the peony
1818
"The peony is this big!"
the child's arms
outstretched
1818
I lay my sake cup
on top for a moment...
peony
1818
shaded by the
samurai's umbrella...
the peony
1818
I call Mr. Toad
"Lucky" too...
peony
1818
where piss dribbles,
dribbles down...
irises
1818
an old-time dawn
for the old post...
irises
1818
the long skinny snake's
Shinto shrine...
irises
1818
black ears too
bustling in the world...
wheat field
1818
my home village--
even where people sleep
this year's bamboo
1818
my gate's hedge--
no flourishing
of fresh green
1818
splish-splash
the white wall washed...
by fresh leaves
1818
so carefully rolled
by a bug...
new green leaf
1818
the bridge guard's bucket
upside-down to dry...
fresh leaves
1818
new leaves forming--
in the town a drought
of men
1818
straw sandals and insects
dangling...
deep tree shade
1818
in the wash basin
in the rice cake tub...
a deutzia blossom blizzard
1818
"A man"
is registered at the inn...
a cold night
1818
secluded house--
keeping out night's cold
a patchwork fence
1818
the good-for-nothing priest
is used to it...
a cold night
1818
practicing writing
in the tray's ashes...
a cold night
1818
a weasel sports
with the shrine's guard...
a cold night
1818
with a lantern
crossing the shady thicket...
a cold night
1818
two miles to go
to Oiwake...
autumn dusk
1818
in her cave the demon sleeps--
from morning on
autumn's last day
1818
rice cooking water
glug-glug...
autumn dusk
1818
stowed in the alcove
walking stick, straw sandals...
autumn dusk
1818
one, two, three, four
counting the firewood...
autumn dusk
1818
my house
just two miles more...
autumn dusk
1818
autumn evening--
even in the watchman's shack out back
festival guests
1818
into the Kiso Mountains
it flows...
Milky Way
1818
a little boy
shows another child...
Milky Way
1818
little straw mat--
in the kettle slantwise
Milky Way
1818
the turtle and moon
merge...
Sumida River
1818
the little post
gets a scrubbing too...
Bon Festival moon
1818
the beards of grasses
in a mood for rain...
night before the harvest moon
1818
they call this rain
the master...
tonight's moon
1818
harvest moon night--
but prayed-for rain
in the mountains
1818
harvest moon night--
but someone
prayed for rain
1818
harvest moon night--
but the village
prayed for rain
1818
in a slice
of harvest moonlight...
reed-thatched house
1818
harvest moon--
draining into the highway
rice field water
1818
harvest moon--
the fluttering sails
of nagashi barrels
1818
purification font--
thrown in a corner
the Ninth Month moon
1818
clear fall weather--
with burdens they cross
Mount Hakone
1818
unaware
of the clear fall weather...
layman
1818
a pilgrim rides by
on a horse...
clear fall weather
1818
just for fun
a game of cards...
clear fall weather
1818
on the lightning-scorched
mountain...
autumn rain
1818
autumn wind--
the new beggar's
small voice
1818
autumn wind
on the mulberry leaves
left unplucked
1818
up to today
above people's heads...
dew drips down
1818
to enlightened eyes
Buddha's bones?
dewdrops in the grass
1818
"Silver dewdrops
are that way, man!"
a crow calling
1818
dewdrops scatter--
from here on nights
will be long
1818
dewdrops scatter--
beyond this life
is Buddha's promise
1818
dew drips softly--
no lingering, not even
for a while
1818
without Buddha's law
no glitter...
dewdrops in the grass
1818
ten thousand lanterns
or just one poor one...
dew dripping down
1818
lightning flash--
suddenly three people
face to face
1818
lightning flash--
not giving a damn
the toad's face
1818
seaside temple--
the room in the fog
grows faint
1818
foggy rain
foggy nights, foggy days...
my hut
1818
divine wind--
digging up moss
on the autumn mountain
1818
the Buddha also
with umbrella-hat...
crossroads dance
1818
bald heads in a row...
greeting the stars
of Tanabata
1818
chirr-chirr! insects also
work their looms...
stars of Tanabata
1818
wildflowers stuck
in an earthen mortar...
Tanabata stars
1818
Tanabata night--
someone's blooming pink
is rustling
1818
sucking on the
mulberry leaf poem...
the crawling child
1818
though made of paper
a mulberry leaf poem...
for the festival
1818
reaching the bedroom
of the Star Couple...
smudge pot smoke
1818
suddenly a crowd
for the sumo match...
moon at the gate
1818
staggering
I'm the scarecrow's
replacement
1818
the dragonflies'
resort spot...
the scarecrow
1818
evening falls--
me and a scarecrow
just us two
1818
draining the rice field--
farewell! farewell!
farewell!
1818
draining the rice field--
a loach also
climbs the rapids
1818
evening cloth-pounding--
the neighbor's
neighbor
1818
that's my house
about two miles away...
evening cloth-pounding
1818
my hut, two miles
from where you're pounding
cloth
1818
slurping up flour
from the parched rice...
just for luck
1818
two young deer
side by side...
a duet
1818
a shrike sings--
seven days of sermons
one fart
1818
the snipe hunter's
ugly face slapped...
by a storm
1818
Isozaki--
wild geese descend
even into a kettle!
1818
autumn's first geese--
five people enroute
to Zenkô Temple
1818
the caged insect
sings a love song
to his wife
1818
cicada, from morning on
its ruckus...
mountain home
1818
leaving my shoulder
for the Buddha's...
dragonfly
1818
a good world!
crickets ring
a black kite wheels
1818
spreading a straw mat
at the gate's field...
a locust lands
1818
avoiding the sweep
of the sickle's blade...
a deft locust
1818
a quick song
inside the lantern...
katydid
1818
the katydid
in the paper bag...
still singing
1818
the champion chrysanthemum
down the war lord's lane
returns
1818
chrysanthemum garden--
only women
on the one bench
1818
smelling like sake
smelling like piss
chrysanthemums
1818
getting used
to to voices of Edo...
chrysanthemum
1818
the losing chrysanthemum
punished...
in a corner
1818
mountain temple--
even sweet tea cakes
chrysanthemum-shaped
1818
the chrysanthemum
I call "good"
I eat
1818
rain splashing
the morning glories...
my pillow
1818
morning glories
have bloomed darkly...
but my hair...
1818
morning glory--
one inch from its tip
darkness
1818
morning glories--
all praise to Ah...
Ahhhh!
1818
hidden in trees
the white morning glory's
demure face
1818
world of man--
a new morning glory
blooms in bondage
1818
in a little nook
acting stuck-up...
maiden flower
1818
after the harvest
finding a rice stalk...
Praise Buddha!
1818
wagtails march through
sucking them up...
rice gleanings
1818
even beyond
the boundaries of Japan...
rice gleanings
1818
dropped by the
foraging birds...
rice gleanings
1818
the new hay is soft
so soft...
a pleasant snooze
1818
rugged mountain--
even its grasses
are sumo wrestlers
1818
Kyoto man--
a red leaf worn
on his head
1818
even on a tree
one inch tall...
red leaves
1818
the pony stretches
its mouth...
red persimmon leaves
1818
down it comes
with a frog rider...
the leaf
1818
one leaf at a time
falling, bumps...
priest's bald head
1818
one leaf in the winnowing basket
two in the rice cake tub...
a busy tree
1818
deep inside
the chestnut's burr...
such beauty
1818
surrendering it
to my child...
chestnut ladle
1818
fallen chestnuts--
the crow gets first
dibs
1818
praying over a meal
of mountain chestnuts...
Kyoto
1818
mountain temple--
on tatami mats, gathering
chestnuts
1818
on the 29th day
of Twelfth Month, too...
a sunset
1818
"a man"
registers at the inn...
a cold night
1818
from behind
it must look cold...
my head
1818
spotting wolf shit--
the grass
is so cold!
1818
steadily growing
on the nape of my neck...
winter cold
1818
even to my
biased eyes it's a cold
head!
1818
even to my
biased eyes it's a cold
shadow!
1818
pissing a perfect
circle...
a cold night
1818
clang! bang!
this year of suffering
ends with a bell
1818
sunset's bell
finishes it off...
year's last day
1818
secluded house--
even on the year's last day
evening snow
1818
curling to sleep--
but first ending this year, too
with a toast
1818
hurling insults
at the traveler...
first winter rain
1818
a blind child--
to his right, to his left
steady winter rain
1818
after pissing
rinsing the hands...
slanting winter rain
1818
even the pigeons
are grumbling...
winter rain
1818
the first snowfall
caps it...
the piss pot
1818
the first snowfall
adds to the stack...
huts' firewood
1818
first snowfall--
"A B C D E F..."
she practices
1818
first snow--
and now a temple
pilgrimage
1818
dark night--
the first snowflakes
hit my neck
1818
inside soot
is drip-dripping...
evening snow
1818
day after day
big snow, little snow...
one or the other
1818
snow falling--
a dog passes through
the temple's great gate
1818
to the rhythm
of the blizzard
washing rice
1818
going nuts in hailstones
crashing down...
a fox
1818
in the pockets
in the sleeves...
hailstones!
1818
at my gate
a flawless little patch...
morning frost
1818
my proxy bathes
in the cold water...
sparrow
1818
soot sweeping--
toward the rising sun I aim
my nostrils
1818
from the great bronze
Buddha's nose...
soot-sweeping
1818
a chubby girl
offered pickles...
soot sweeping
1818
dimly seen
in the dawn light...
a sooty face
1818
Edo's world--
women also
are Twelfth Month singers
1818
at my gate
slipping so skillfully...
a Twelfth Month singer
1818
Twelfth Month singers--
their butts facing
Sumida River
1818
performing
behind a waterfall...
Twelfth Month singers
1818
secluded house--
even for a palm-sized rice cake
a commotion
1818
flat rice cake--
a child uses it
as a big fan
1818
world at peace--
even at a shack in a burnt field
a rice cake commotion
1818
in a stand of trees
pounding rice cakes...
evening moon
1818
Yamanote--
slurping coarse tea
drinking away the year
1818
slipping on
the demon-expelling beans...
crying child
1818
lugging his snow sled
up the slope...
little child
1818
a little nap
by his brazier...
Fushimi boat
1818
to have to sleep
like this...
without my brazier
1818
asleep on deck
by his brazier...
Fushimi boat
1818
the mere mention
of winter's first snow...
lighting my brazier
1818
a boat all ready
for snow to fall...
a brazier
1818
night storm--
he huddles by a brazier
on a Fushimi boat
1818
at Iozaki
pheasants rise and go...
charcoal bags
1818
in the mud
trampled so quickly...
empty charcoal bag
1818
entrusting it to young folk
I sleep...
cozy wood fire
1818
singing to the dawn
the plovers too...
Shubi Pine
1818
trampling the bridge watchman's
kettle lid...
a singing plover
1818
blooms of plume
grass scatter...
so cold to the eye
1818
my thought
the tree would never wither
was wrong
1818
remembering how it was
with yearning...
bare winter plum
1818
it's hard to find
any red ones...
fallen leaves
1818
elsewhere too
red ones hard to find...
fallen leaves
1818
winter withering--
the crow respects
his parents
1818
even the mosquito swarm
here and there...
frost-killed
1818
grass-killing frost--
a rising mosquito swarm
a fence
1818
rotten cherry tree
what prayer brought you
out-of-season blooms?
1818
the pleasure of moon
and blossoms...
pleasant snoozes
1818
not a thousand years
not one day...
the princess pine
1818
joining the samurai's
company...
Sir Dog
1818
someone lives
on that tiny pine island...
evening smoke
1819
First Month--
tonight a night
of plum blossoms
1819
First Month--
a row of clogs for rent
on the shady hillside
1819
the bush warbler's song
wonderfully strange...
spring's first dawn
1819
my ramshackle hut--
just as it is...
spring begins
1819
my "Happy New Year!"
about average...
my spring
1819
new spring
Yataro is reborn...
into Haiku Temple
1819
now spring has come
for sure...
tobacco tray
1819
from the storehouse
shining slantwise...
year's first sun
1819
sticking my cane
in the mud...
the year's first dawn
1819
westward he prays
to the year's first sky...
priest
1819
year's first sky--
to throw coins at debt
you need coins
1819
year's first sky--
to throw coins at debt
you need coins
1819
the year's first rain--
my grass roof's
first leak
1819
with snow falling
the night thief must follow his nose too...
New Year's walk
1819
hanging from
St. Jizo's neck...
a New Year's decoration
1819
two or three
hang in the thicket...
New Year's ropes
1819
another year
hanging the New Year's rope...
wrinkled face
1819
the new arrival
brings a gift...
Happy New Year!
1819
for laughing grandchildren
on New Year's Day...
presents!
1819
his head of white hair
perks up...
"Happy New Year!"
1819
secluded house--
even for the cat
a New Year's gift
1819
night watchman--
from his window he hurls
New Year's gifts
1819
looking, looking
at the mandarin orange...
year's first calligraphy
1819
the little boy
uses a cane...
New Year's first writing
1819
swish, swish
writing with my cane...
year's first calligraphy
1819
in the naughty child's
palm first, a brush...
New Year's writing
1819
as Edo residents
we all spread out...
first hot bath
1819
bathing in the
New Year's water...
my proxy the crow
1819
my hut's well
this morning I'll call it
New Year's water
1819
three pennies of New Year's
water is enough...
little hut
1819
New Year's handball--
onesies, twosies, three peas,
four bees!
1819
calling his parents
while his kite rises!
little pilgrim
1819
western mountain--
the boy freshly head-shaved
has a kite
1819
Mama's way
of shaping rice cake offerings...
a lesson
1819
to harden the teeth
"Chew!" they say
those little seeds
1819
New Year's tooth-hardening
meal...
yet toothless!
1819
four or five houses
share one bundle...
New Year's herbs
1819
clinging
to a hand towel...
New Year's herbs
1819
laid out
at the hearth's door...
New Year's herbs
1819
spring peace--
Mount Asama's smoke
and the day moon
1819
a mountain hot bath
slish-slosh...
a long spring day
1819
this precious world--
a long spring day
and trees blooming!
1819
drawing eyebrows
on the white dog...
a long spring day
1819
a dog rolling
in the highway...
a long spring day
1819
good-for-nothing me
put on a shelf...
a long spring day
1819
so shameful--
feeling troubled this long day
of blossoming spring
1819
the guardian god's
kite-grabbing hackberry tree...
spring dusk
1819
thin spring snow--
a little thicket's
great fox god
1819
at morning market
he bares his chest...
spring rain
1819
even a horse
is the inn's guest...
spring rain
1819
"We're off to see
the play," they say...
spring rain
1819
a red hair string
in the rubbish heap...
spring rain
1819
a lucky fox
comes out of hiding...
spring rain
1819
sticky rice cake
for the Buddha of the thicket...
spring breeze
1819
in the spring breeze
a goose on a mission...
headstrong!
1819
hazy night--
people listening
to heavenly music
1819
looking back at my house
the mist
even mistier
1819
looking back at her house
just mist...
I depart, I depart
1819
leaving the houseboat
behind me, behind me
in the mist
1819
looking at my gate
the mist
even mistier
1819
don't want to remember it
or see it...
cover my house, mist!
1819
misty day--
a hush in the big
sitting room
1819
even their white walls
are slandered!
spring mist
1819
my home village--
the call to morning tea
a clap in the mist
1819
riding sidesaddle
one by one...
evening mist
1819
squirming
amid the heat shimmers
people
1819
heat shimmers--
wooden clogs on his hands
at Zenkô Temple
1819
heat shimmers--
someone's thrown-out garbage
for sale
1819
lovely--
in the leftover snow
both handprints
1819
cooking pots bottoms up
dry in a row...
snow is melting
1819
olden times--
two handprints worth
of leftover snow
1819
at the gate
children dig a channel...
river of melting snow
1819
in the thicket
snow melts easily...
smoke
1819
snow is melting!
the pine tree behind
the inn
1819
snowy road--
on one side melts
to darkness
1819
helping to rake
the rice-seedling bed...
horse and pony
1819
a little tiresome
these blooming flowers...
the Buddha sleeps
1819
even lying down
he's Buddha!
shower of blossoms
1819
Buddha's Death-Day
a bird too, sings Lotus Sutra!
Lotus Sutra!
1819
the Buddha
even lying down, showered
with blossoms and coins
1819
Fox Festival night--
snow falling
on the bonfire
1819
Fox Festival--
the non-divine foxes
crying
1819
world of blossoms--
the non-divine foxes
crying
1819
a migrating servant
sees it distant and high...
Mount Mikasa
1819
migrating servants--
over Mount Mikasa
the rising moon
1819
trickling down--
a migrating servant's
rain of tears
1819
a studded palanquin
for the migrating servant...
Kyoto
1819
secluded house--
even the cat gets a dose
of burning wormwood
1819
in one corner
soot-covered dolls...
husband and wife
1819
a soot-covered doll
but displayed in the seat
of honor
1819
the clay doll
shaded by blossoms...
hermit
1819
even the clay doll
is decked with flowers...
festival
1819
blossom world--
even in a temple's cherry grove
the Doll Festival
1819
landing plop! on all fours
on the shelf of dolls...
kitten
1819
even for a doll
made from black muck...
the same festival
1819
though my doll of clay
is homemade...
Girls' Festival
1819
in the herb cake pan
also kneading in
a prayer
1819
fires on the mountain--
look like Buddhas
look like devils
1819
fires on the mountain
make it pretty at night...
Shinano river
1819
crunch! crunch!
plowing the rice field
snow
1819
at the verge
of Mount Asama's smoke...
a farmer's field
1819
plowing the field--
a child crawls through
horsetails
1819
come and play
with me...
orphan sparrow
1819
a troop of children
march behind her...
mother sparrow
1819
are you calling
for your stepchild?
evening sparrow
1819
baby sparrow
pitifully, pitifully wet
he cries
1819
baby sparrow
in the middle of the river
cries for mama
1819
baby sparrows
move aside!
Sir Horse passes
1819
bamboo shoots, baby sparrows
play together
gently!
1819
world of corruption
but a bird still sings
the Lotus Sutra
1819
are those bush warblers
brothers?
identical voices!
1819
in the bush warbler's honor
sweeping off
the fence
1819
a bush warbler's shadow
singing...
bright window
1819
the bush warbler
sizes it up, singing...
my house
1819
even for bush warblers--
higher-ups
country bumpkins
1819
hey bush warbler--
no men allowed
in the harem!
1819
Great Japan!
where a bird sings
the Lotus Sutra
1819
one by one they come
off-key bush warblers
to my fence
1819
missing home--
an off-key bush warbler's
faraway song
1819
waiting for the swallows
pounding bean-paste...
mountain's foot
1819
darkness settles
over a tiny isle of pines...
a skylark singing
1819
circling the grove
that hides her children...
a singing lark
1819
riding sidesaddle
on horse after horse...
an evening lark
1819
three times 'round
the little shrine...
departing geese
1819
rising early
will you stop at Senju town?
departing geese
1819
dawn--
mimicking me striking fire
croaking frog
1819
squatting low
eye to eye...
with the frog
1819
locked in a staring contest
me...
and a frog
1819
looks like the boss
in the seat of honor...
croaking frog
1819
frogs croaking--
"There goes fox's bride!
fox's bride!"
1819
the wagtail beats time
with his butt...
croaking frogs
1819
as long as you're singing
go ahead, dance!
frog
1819
Mokubo Temple's bell
fills him with filial piety...
the frog
1819
sporting with
the big cat's tail...
a little butterfly
1819
from the weeds
that little butterfly
is born!
1819
in the trash heap
that little butterfly
is born!
1819
the butterfly's
soft landing...
in the tea kettle!
1819
flitting butterfly--
every corner of my hut
is inspected
1819
rubbing Binzuru's
holy nose...
little butterfly
1819
grass by the gate--
it sprouts
it's plucked
1819
among the sprouts
not one man-stabbing
blade of grass
1819
people with fans--
no stabbing grass
in sight
1819
keeping bamboo shoots
company, weeds
fresh green too
1819
baby grass--
a troop of little pilgrims
visit Kitano
1819
the nine-ring flower
blooms only four or five
then quits
1819
radish in the field--
Sir Whiskers
yanks it up
1819
the plum blossom theif's
round head's
shadow
1819
plum blossom scent
even in the little thicket
first class
1819
plum blooming--
muddy straw sandals
and a sake cup
1819
here's a plum blossom
steal it!
bright moon
1819
are you pointing out
these plum blossoms for stealing,
moon?
1819
Oyodo Town--
plum blossoms the colors
of dawn
1819
a "No Men Allowed" sign
on the gate...
plum blossoms
1819
my cracked teacup
like Buddha on display...
plum blossoms
1819
the barrier guard's
wormwood burn sores in vogue...
plum blossoms
1819
a little child dressed
like a Shinto priest...
plum blossoms
1819
one dip in the dye
renews Zenkô Temple...
plum blossoms
1819
deep in the thicket
an offering box...
plum blossoms
1819
remote village--
a stroke of rare luck
these plum blossoms!
1819
world of pain--
and blossoms blooming
add to it!
1819
a baby boy
cries for milk...
blossoms at their peak
1819
cherry blossoms scatter--
the ignorant masses
of these latter days
1819
cherry blossom shade--
no one an utter
stranger
1819
he wants his hole
in the world of blossoms...
fox
1819
the mountain moon
gives the blossom thief
light
1819
world of pain--
and the cherry blossoms
add to it!
1819
"Cherry blossoms! Cherry blossoms!"
they sang
under this old tree
1819
a bevy of teahouses
suddenly!
cherry blossoms
1819
a bevy of teahouses
built overnight!
cherry blossoms
1819
Amida Buddha watches
them scatter...
cherry blossoms
1819
for the mountain field
mulch is falling...
cherry blossoms
1819
evening cherry blossoms--
people listening
to heavenly music
1819
"Take a shortcut
through the hedge!"
the willow suggests
1819
standing within
the green willow...
a warrior woman
1819
waving at the entrance
the friendly
willow
1819
smack in the middle
of Edo's very heart...
a willow
1819
willow at the gate--
I part it with my head
going in
1819
the willow
like a white cat...
a temple flower too
1819
the willow
like a gray cat...
a temple flower too
1819
shrouding his rear
as he poops in the field...
a willow
1819
stirred by people's voices
the greening
willow
1819
with one gust
it becomes the perfect
willow
1819
at my gate
refusing to droop...
the willow
1819
from the doorway on
a Sixth Month night
of moon
1819
in all of Sixth Month
not one good moon...
little hut
1819
Sixth Month--
for the moon's blessing
sweeping soot
1819
Sixth Month--
catching sight of the moon
sweeping soot
1819
short summer nights--
I've grown old enough
to love them
1819
short summer night--
a new red flower
on the vine's tip
1819
short summer night--
scattered on the grass
little turf fish
1819
oh it's hot--
how wide your mouth gapes
foolish crow
1819
ink-stained hands
sweaty face...
the child's calligraphy!
1819
hot day--
even looking at green grass
a money source
1819
hot day--
the foolish crow picks
at the eaves
1819
hot day--
even forgotten grasses
are growing
1819
into the hot night
pilgrims stomping...
Zenkô Temple
1819
a hot night--
among bags and burdens
they sleep
1819
hot night--
bats dangle
at the river's edge
1819
the rice shoots
are grateful...
summer heat
1819
here in rice country
the lucky, lucky
heat
1819
account book
for a pillow...
the summer heat
1819
looking hotter now
those mountains I came from...
lying down
1819
from the direction
of a "Praise Buddha!"...
summer heat
1819
Mount Haku's snowcap
twinkling...
summer heat
1819
so weary--
cool tree shade makes me
double back
1819
how many gateways
for the cool breeze?
pines and oaks
1819
in the cool air
slap! slap! his hair is combed...
Sir Horse
1819
in summer cool
the account book
for a pillow
1819
cool air--
his umbrella-hat a sail
on the food boat
1819
summer cool--
the gate to Buddha's
Pure Land
1819
cool air--
even the snow of Shinano
for sale
1819
cool evening air--
not incense
not a fart
1819
cool air on a bridge--
this shoe I entrust
to Chôryô
1819
rainy season over--
two houses, two neighbors
sweeping soot
1819
the last
of the June rain...
drip, drip
1819
in this darkness
don't get your nose pinched!
June rain
1819
even the June rain
takes a day off
today
1819
has the June rain
taken a day off
today?
1819
maiden flowers looking
stuck-up...
Rain of the Tiger
1819
unknowingly wetting
an old man's sleeves...
Rain of the Tiger
1819
forgetting that today
is "the Rain of the Tiger"...
I'm drenched
1819
my hut, too
drenched by the Tiger's
tears
1819
lying down in a row--
discussing
the distant storm
1819
growing to the beat
of the cloudburst...
weeds
1819
a cloudburst--
relighting the lantern
at verandah's edge
1819
rainstorm--
monk-like on a rock, under a tree
a minor official
1819
the cloudburst--
a gently falling side-dish
to go with sake
1819
his flower arrangement
washed by the cloudburst...
heading home
1819
on my sleeping mat
counting with my feet...
snowy peaks
1819
the ants' road--
from peaks of clouds
to here
1819
thanks to the wind
they are precious...
billowing clouds
1819
today's heavenly gift
again is small...
billowing cloud
1819
at the edge
of the mountain hermit's pillow...
billowing clouds
1819
little mat...
in the tea kettle
a summer moon
1819
the grassy lawn
my resting place...
summer moon
1819
just for fun
beating the straw...
summer moon
1819
a twice-fired sake
induced ruckus...
summer moon
1819
sleeping mat--
his butt a pillow
for the summer moon
1819
in this remote place
is it Saigyo's hut?
pure water over moss
1819
in this remote place
whose hut is it?
pure water over moss
1819
sluicing in
to fill the bath...
pure water
1819
letting pony drink
mother stands guard...
pure water
1819
the old mountain guard
prayed to find it...
trickle of pure water
1819
morning's first thing--
greedy eyes
on the green rice field
1819
this or that green rice field?
each farmer
is biased
1819
lying in a row--
he slanders his own
green rice field
1819
deutzia blossoms, too
on Buddha's birthday
report for duty
1819
through the long day
not a thirsty moment...
birthday Buddha
1819
a flea
on the little purification doll
floats away
1819
thrashing fish
knowing they're in a bucket
and not knowing
1819
relying on
the green willow's shade
cormorant flock
1819
outdoing the cormorant
in skillful imitation...
a child
1819
outdoing the cormorant
with a fine imitation...
a child
1819
cormorants and fishermen--
families
of three
1819
the mother cormorant
raising a ruckus..
her child comes home
1819
baby comorant cries--
his mother returns
to the boat
1819
my favorite cormorant
again floats up
with an empty beak
1819
though sitting
in a new summer robe...
all alone
1819
cedar thatch
for the piss bucket...
new summer robes
1819
watch your head
on that gate!
summer kimono
1819
their hairstyles
long and short...
new summer kimonos
1819
a twelve-foot wooden sword
on their shoulders...
summer kimonos
1819
a thirty-foot wooden sword
on their shoulders...
summer kimonos
1819
"O Fudaraku..."
a red summer kimono
on the little pilgrim
1819
Kyoto night--
white summer kimonos
white umbrella-hats
1819
this wind
isn't enough, they say...
summer room
1819
pine tree shade--
one straw mat
my summer room
1819
no divine punishment yet--
napping
under the net
1819
even the horses--
in light green mosquito nets
they sleep
1819
curling to sleep--
in the paper mosquito net's window
a sickle moon
1819
this body of dust
suits this wispy-soft
paper mosquito net
1819
wringing hands
in the mosquito netting...
let me have just a corner!
1819
the rising moon
in my paper mosquito net's window
passes by
1819
from the beginning
it has hung loose...
my paper mosquito net
1819
while I'm away
hang loose
paper mosquito net
1819
sleeping alone
building castles in the sky...
paper mosquito net
1819
upon inspection
it's covered with patches...
my mosquito net
1819
up to now
no divine punishment...
siesta
1819
with his elbows
on his abacus...
a siesta
1819
one foot propped
on the lotus leaves...
siesta
1819
after getting it
it's lost so soon...
paper fan
1819
the little blind minstrel
wears it like a hat...
paper fan
1819
how old
is this little pilgrim?
red paper fan
1819
the little pilgrim
being led by hand...
red paper fan
1819
the little boy
stows it in his neckband...
paper fan
1819
he passes by
like Taro Kaja...
paper fan
1819
picking flowers--
his paper fan stowed
behind his neck
1819
he stows his fan
behind his neck...
little boy
1819
mountain temple--
the little boy's name
on his fan
1819
great temple--
the little boy's name
on his fan
1819
placed to the windward
the prow's
smudge pot
1819
the fish
unaware of the bucket...
cool air at the gate
1819
even green grass
rustles only for money...
cool air at the gate
1819
a one-foot waterfall
splashes too...
evening cool
1819
at dawn
after my second piss...
cool air at the gate
1819
even adding in
a thorn bush, behold!
a cool breeze
1819
stepping one foot
in Paradise...
evening cool
1819
penniless
the green grass unnoticed...
cool air at the gate
1819
lighting my pipe
with an incense stick...
cool air
1819
banging the temple gong
just for fun...
cool air
1819
a doll is made
to bring my tea...
cool air at the gate
1819
one elbow
on a sleeping deer...
evening cool
1819
mother--
while enjoying the cool air
stitching
1819
the stepchild's chore
in the cool air...
beating straw
1819
soaking in cold water
or hot, whichever...
evening cool
1819
as evening falls
even above a sewer...
cool air
1819
the horse too
on rice-planting break...
field by the gate
1819
when your village is done
where next?
rice-planting umbrella-hat
1819
a foreigner watches
the rice planting too...
flutes and drums
1819
the chilled ice vendor's
newcomer face...
Mount Atago
1819
the fawn munches
lying on his side...
bush clover blooms
1819
leaping over
a sudden stream
mother deer looks back
1819
though he's caretaker
for the mother deer...
she hides
1819
hearing people's voices
she hides her fawn...
the doe
1819
noisily demanding
a present...
the fawn
1819
in a hurry?
he's off to see Kyoto
the cuckoo
1819
blossoming deutzia!
plum! cherry!
"Cuckoo!"
1819
on a man-made hill
celebrating...
a cuckoo
1819
sing at Mr. Toad's
funeral, hurry
cuckoo!
1819
sing, cuckoo!
you're just about curing
my headache
1819
cuckoo--
O flies and worms
listen well!
1819
for my house
a suitable mountain cuckoo
sings his song
1819
"Your praying for rain's
ridiculous!"
reed warbler
1819
just when the calf
has fallen asleep...
the reed warbler sings
1819
just one reed
for the reed warbler...
take heart!
1819
are you predicting rain
in ten days
reed warbler?
1819
the spoonbill takes
a vow of silence...
reed warbler singing
1819
admirable--
a snake too sheds
his worldly robe
1819
temple grounds--
a snake too sheds
his worldly robe
1819
world of Buddha's law--
the snake strips
his clothes
1819
lightning flash--
the toad
rubs his head
1819
looking like
"I can ride the fog!"...
a toad
1819
looking like
"I can ride the fog!"...
a crow
1819
his great mouth
burping clouds...
the toad
1819
Mister Toad--
the wife may be waiting
your children crying
1819
a raindrop falls
he rubs his head...
toad
1819
"Allow me to present myself--
I am the toad
of this thicket!"
1819
a big firefly
slowly bobbing...
passes by
1819
his chest heaving
he's chased indoors...
firefly
1819
this old hand
not to your taste?
firefly
1819
seeking sanctuary
with a sigh of relief?
first firefly
1819
teasing him two
or three times...
a firefly flits away
1819
first firefly
though the hand is skillful
slips free
1819
first firefly--
uncaught by the hand
flies free
1819
flitting firefly--
uncaught by the hand
uncaught again!
1819
first firefly--
just teasing me
then rushing away
1819
though wrapped in
tissue paper...
a firefly's light
1819
toward people's voices
well, well!
first firefly
1819
picking players
for the children's game...
come, firefly!
1819
come, firefly!
to my self-made
silver dew
1819
firefly lights--
if you keep still
even on your head
1819
firefly seller--
fireflies fly to freedom
in the night
1819
daughter, look!
fireflies to be sold
one by one
1819
don't come starve here!
fireflies
at my gate
1819
skinny fireflies
flitting softly, softly...
drift down
1819
tease me
in a good way...
first firefly
1819
do you think my sleeve
is your parent?
fleeing firefly
1819
moth who ends in fire--
hated
by people
1819
measured by an inchworm
too...
my house's pillar
1819
today too
mosquito larvae and me
at sunset
1819
today again
mosquito larvae...
tomorrow the same
1819
up to heaven
the mosquito larva flies...
sickle moon
1819
morning's mosquitos--
behind Amida Buddha
they hide
1819
pesky mosquito--
into an old well
he sneaks
1819
to the lullaby
of mosquitos
she sleeps
1819
a smattering of mosquitos--
from today on
an old man's world
1819
this is cute too--
the year's first mosquito's
whiny voice
1819
first voices raised
for the celebration...
mosquitos
1819
making even the cherry tree
curse...
mosquitos
1819
like clockwork
the first sound of evening...
mosquitos
1819
the whining mosquito
also thinks I'm old...
edge of my ear
1819
from the direction
of "all praise to Amida Buddha!"
a mosquito's buzz
1819
a bedroom mosquito's
first buzz
in the flame
1819
a bedroom mosquito
poof!
in the flame
1819
one mosquito
perfectly quiet...
and relentless!
1819
noontime mosquitos
all hidden...
even in thickets
1819
first voice rising
in the evening sky...
a mosquito
1819
all day long
the flies' mood too...
better and better
1819
where the verandah fly
rubbed his hands...
swat!
1819
knowing no parent
the fly clings piggy-back
to me
1819
the fly clings tightly
to my back...
Kuju River
1819
on his holy head
three flies...
a crowd
1819
secluded house--
even my flies
are few
1819
fly on my umbrella-hat
from today on
a citizen of Edo!
1819
the fly on my umbrella-hat
beats me
inside
1819
a lacquered tray--
whoops!
the fly slips
1819
swatting at a fly--
a butterfly too
sneaks away
1819
brushing away flies
is fun...
child's sleeping face
1819
one man, one fly
one large
sitting room
1819
my home village
where even the flies
bite deep
1819
the purification doll
with a fly on top...
floats away
1819
it's a good world!
one more, help yourself
flies on my rice
1819
in a grassy meadow
she rubs them off...
cat's fleas
1819
don't jump flea!
that's Sumida River
over there
1819
if you jump flea
jump
on the lotus
1819
until the winged ants
come out
a fortunate pillar
1819
"Hey puppy
come here!" sings
a cicada
1819
a cicada chirrs--
the pinwheel so utterly
red
1819
first cicada
"Look at the floating world!
Look! Loo-ook!"
1819
cicada in the pine
how much will you cry
till it's noon?
1819
a mountain cicada--
into my sleeve
he goes
1819
from deep in the temple gong
a chirring
cicada
1819
dayflowers--
even at the ancient priest's
window
1819
flowering bindweed--
burning amid steaming
pebbles
1819
blowing his nose
on the moonflower...
a child
1819
measuring foot by foot
with a fan...
the peony
1819
scrap paper faces
of peonies...
shaded by leaves
1819
sitting on her eggs
the hen admires
the peony
1819
the god of fortune
and luck dwells here...
a peony!
1819
lucky, lucky
luckiest of flowers...
the peony!
1819
even the peony's
good karma wears thin...
my house!
1819
a temple
in the Chinese style...
with peonies!
1819
blooming lotuses
in this world...
bent
1819
it's a better world--
but they're only penny-sized
lotus blossoms
1819
even lotus blossoms
bend a bit...
oh floating world!
1819
transferred to my gate
the little lotus
blossom
1819
blooming pink--
two pennies' worth of water
for your bath
1819
the pink
in the shade of stepmother trees
blooms
1819
even the horse's
hair is done up...
irises
1819
this morning
one's in the trash...
irises
1819
on the blooming duckweed
let us ride...
to that cloud!
1819
in the horse's ladle
the duckweed suddenly
has bloomed!
1819
planted in the garden
of the secluded house...
leftover rice plants
1819
roadside--
even the horse won't eat
the leftover rice plants
1819
secluded house--
using its pillar to thresh
the wheat
1819
ripened wheat--
with a child on her back
the sardine vendor
1819
a busy time--
even the mountain's moss
in full bloom
1819
the mountain moss
lends a hand
to the blooming
1819
red sacred rope--
the smallpox god's
crop of young bamboo
1819
a splendid, tall
young bamboo!
while I was away
1819
while I was away
just for a while...
a splendid young bamboo!
1819
well, well
pale purple, this year's color...
for young bamboo
1819
it's a good thing
being bitter bamboo...
fresh new shoots
1819
the thousand year
bamboo shoot...
snap! broken
1819
bamboo shoots--
if it weren't for people's "shoots"
you'd live to flower
1819
bitter bamboo shoots--
a lucky
assembly
1819
fancy sitting room--
even peeling melons
an ordeal
1819
first melon of the season
in her grasp...
sleeping child
1819
aligned
with the sickle moon...
cooling melon
1819
holding it
against her cheek...
muskmelon
1819
a red leaf falls
showing off...
summer trees
1819
making the lawn
a vacation spot...
summer trees
1819
just one branch
helps my siesta...
summer tree
1819
the neighborhood's
relaxation spot...
the tree's deep shade
1819
amid deutzia blossoms
all alone...
a torii gate
1819
amid deutzia blossoms
all alone...
a shrine
1819
with deutzia blossoms
on this lucky day...
outhouse
1819
a deutzia shrub
even without blossoms...
for sale
1819
even the deutzia shrub
is moved to tears...
the toad's grave
1819
reflecting enough moonlight
to light my bedroom...
deutzia blossoms
1819
enough light
to light my bedroom...
deutzia blossoms
1819
first autumn morning--
a fever-curing
kind of sky
1819
chilly air--
earthworms singing
night after night
1819
just the sight
of wolf shit...
feeling a chill
1819
a child writes
in the tray's ashes...
a cold night
1819
brushing away
the red horse's hard day...
a cold night
1819
since the day I knew
the word "Parent"...
cold nights
1819
our shameful shadows!
in the cold night walking
in vain
1819
shaking the empty keg
once again...
a cold night
1819
"Here's the outhouse!"
the horse calls...
a cold night
1819
it's time to loaf
and carouse...
a cold night
1819
bowing to my home village
in my heart...
a cold night
1819
bowing to my children
in my heart...
a cold night
1819
the young folk
sleep together...
a cold night
1819
sweeping dirt
off the horse's back...
autumn dusk
1819
hugging his knees
his face at peace...
autumn dusk
1819
walking on alone
I write on a wall...
autumn dusk
1819
don't leave, geese!
wherever you live
it's autumn's dusk
1819
our shameful shadows!
in the long night walking
in vain
1819
autumn ends--
a man strokes away
his horse's troubles
1819
"Gimme that harvest moon!"
cries the crying
child
1819
guard my hut's key
pine tree!
going moon-gazing
1819
the sin of discarding
old folks wiped clean...
tonight's moon
1819
one stone drunk
the other stone deaf...
moon-gazing
1819
a present for me--
moon-gazing then locking
my hut
1819
running out of sake
it's time to get serious...
moon-gazing
1819
harvest moon!
when I'm in my house
asleep
1819
buckwheat country's
sharp tongues cutting...
moon-gazing
1819
in my home village
she guards our house...
moon-gazing alone
1819
the harvest moon
draws near...
hole in the wall
1819
harvest moon--
fifty-seven years
of traveling autumns
1819
harvest moon--
the black pine's
boistrous voice
1819
harvest moon--
she'd crawl to my dinner tray
if my child were here
1819
harvest moon--
my lap would be a pillow
if my child were here
1819
harvest moon--
leaving my hut's key
with the pine
1819
little house
in a rice barn's shadow...
here too, moon-gazing
1819
Ishiyama--
a harvest moon eclipse
gazer
1819
eclipsed splendidly
as one would expect...
harvest moon
1819
night of the 15th--
a long wait
for darkness
1819
an officious one--
the harvest moon eclipse
gazer
1819
boldy he forecasts
the moon's
full eclipse
1819
in a flash
the moon's sickness
is cured
1819
returning to us
the great harvest moon!
harvest moon!
1819
before the moon does--
the crowd of people
wanes
1819
before the moon does--
people's faces
wane
1819
voices in the dark--
yet this is the night
of harvest moon
1819
to the world of man
the moon deigns
to return
1819
world of man--
even the moon
suffers!
1819
are you subbing
for the harvest moon?
white rabbit
1819
the harvest moon
deigns to return...
floating world!
1819
ending the harvest moon
eclipse...
mountain rain
1819
such is our world--
even the moon
gets sick!
1819
the geese too
stuffing their bellies...
Ninth Month moon
1819
in his winnowing basket
chopsticks and a charm...
clear fall weather
1819
autumn wind--
the compass points
to my native mountains
1819
autumn wind--
red flowers she wanted
to pick
1819
a playground
for pearls of dew...
tea smoke
1819
pearls of dew--
even on my sleeves
rolling down
1819
a dewdrop pearl--
I pinched it into
a Buddha
1819
trying to pinch
a bead of dew...
a child
1819
the life of a dewdrop
passes alone...
square pillar
1819
this world
is a dewdrop world
yes... but...
1819
tipping the lotus
so dew spills in...
tea bottle
1819
pouring dew
from a lotus...
my tea bottle
1819
lotus dewdrop--
more than enough
for morning tea
1819
on lotus leaves
this world's dewdrops
are warped
1819
on lotus leaves
this world's dewdrops
are bent
1819
evening glow--
deep crimson dew
dripping down
1819
across the shallow river
lightning
flickers
1819
in the lightning flash
rubbing his head...
toad
1819
in flashes of lightning
crossing the shaky
bridge
1819
lightning flash--
lying in a row at the gate
happy faces
1819
lightning--
streak by streak
cures the world
1819
little straw mat--
even on a one-penny bridge
fog rises
1819
evening fog--
the horse remembers
the bridge's hole
1819
writing the poem
on the mulberry substitute...
sponge gourd leaf
1819
the eaves
of the holy man's hut...
plume grass
1819
out-dazzling
the harvest moon...
fireworks!
1819
a windbreak
for the suckling child...
scarecrow
1819
a rainy evening--
my next-door neighbor
pounding cloth
1819
setting a lantern
in the field...
someone pounding cloth
1819
hanging a lantern
in the pine...
evening cloth-pounding
1819
under the tree
tea is brewing...
evening cloth-pounding
1819
a night for pounding
the love-making clothes...
hut's stone
1819
under the cloth-pounding
mallet...
Yoshino River
1819
a fawn crying
for his mother...
evening cloth-pounding
1819
clink-clonk
the one pounding cloth
is Mother
1819
an owl hooting
to the beat...
evening cloth-pounding
1819
Kasuga Field--
penny candy mingles
with deer poop
1819
hanging from the buck's
antler...
a hand-lamp
1819
young bucks--
even those born this year
autumn voices
1819
grandfather buck
searching for a sleeping place
calls out
1819
grandfather buck
testing the depth...
flash flood river
1819
the deer's flute playing
off-key...
song in the night
1819
at the shrine
a buck, too, prays
to have a child
1819
with Buddha's peace
gazing at red leaves...
Mr. and Mrs. Deer
1819
glaring at the high verandah
he barks...
the buck
1819
hiding
the singing deer's face...
torii gate
1819
don't cry deer!
the willow tree only looks
like snakes
1819
don't carry off
my haiku collection!
deer at my hut
1819
the lazy buck
croons his mating call
lying down
1819
listen well
to that off-key flute!
cry of a deer
1819
mountain temple--
on the verandah
a deer cries
1819
as evening falls
he stands among the deer...
face of the holy man
1819
the woodpecker knocks it
for practice...
the post
1819
the woodpecker
sizes it up...
my hut
1819
is the woodpecker
stopping to listen too?
evening's wooden drum
1819
a talented one
posed on one foot...
rice field goose
1819
calling a big gang
down to join them...
rice field geese
1819
come, wild goose
straight down...
land at my feet!
1819
trying out
standing on one leg...
goose on a post
1819
goose at the gate
standing on one leg...
deep in thought
1819
geese and ducks
unaware of the August Presence...
peaceful faces
1819
you too, wild geese
all day, into the night
must travel
1819
lone wild goose--
fly night after night
on your way
1819
tonight like olden times
at Mokubo Temple...
geese in the reeds
1819
chased away
from the village of people...
migrating birds
1819
a sudden turn
to the village that feeds them...
migrating birds
1819
don't quarrel
stick together!
migrating birds
1819
no matter how often
they're chased from the village...
migrating birds
1819
flying through hoops
titmice
through the trees
1819
a finger pointing
at the fart bug...
laughing Buddha
1819
the cricket hops
atop the winnowing basket's
dust pile
1819
a katydid
in the scarecrow's gut
singing
1819
the praying mantis's
brave chest, half an inch...
look!
1819
night after night
accompanying the cool air...
earthworms sing
1819
"Get your sardines!"
she cries, a crying baby
on her back
1819
from the well
a breeze of Japan!
chrysanthemum
1819
the sect founder
is Great Basho...
chrysanthemums
1819
chrysanthemum garden--
we walk with little
sake cups
1819
wielding his hoe
with a face like Shinno's...
chrysanthemums
1819
no drinking at this hut
that's a flaw...
but such chrysanthemums!
1819
if you were small, chrysanthemum
there'd be no shame
of shackles!
1819
happy and peaceful
they bloom...
the riffraff mums
1819
happily they've bloomed
though they took their time...
wild mums
1819
the waste paper basket
smells of sake...
chrysanthemums
1819
with the tip of his cane
he points and lectures...
chrysanthemums
1819
the priest has a towel
wrapped 'round his head...
chrysanthemums
1819
curled asleep
side-by-side, a gourd
a chrysanthemum
1819
the thicket's chrysanthemum
blooms
in secret
1819
mountain temple--
among the provisions
chrysanthemums
1819
peacefully asleep
it has bloomed...
nameless chrysanthemum
1819
lazy, lazy! I water it
not even with dewdrops...
my chrysanthemum
1819
like me
getting plenty of sleep...
chrysanthemum
1819
rented to the blooming
morning glories...
my eaves
1819
ivy-clad gate--
a lesson in Saga-style
"Praise Buddha!"
1819
a Saga-style
great "Praise Buddha!"
ivy turning red
1819
a school for praising
Buddha...
my hut's ivy
1819
dropping from
the young buck's mouth
bush clover blossoms
1819
the arrowroot vine
holds on tight...
a post
1819
the nondrinker's hut
is an eyesore...
blooming orchids
1819
the horse doesn't hardly
bend his neck...
ears of rice
1819
stretching its neck
the rice-loaded horse
passes
1819
the dragonfly too
folds hands in prayer...
rice blossoms
1819
never giving up
my field rustles too...
ears of rice
1819
evening moon--
on the harvested rice
a bottle of sake
1819
offering a prayer
to Amida Buddha...
plume grass
1819
holding it
against her cheek...
the red persimmon
1819
stepping into
the sponge gourd rind...
a big sack
1819
the wagtail
thumping to test it...
squash
1819
an acorn strikes
the bell
of evil
1819
a big one--
the chestnut he gathered
nothing but burr
1819
big chestnut--
the monkey's payment
for medical services
1819
tumbling along
without troubles...
to be a chestnut!
1819
fleeting people
fleeting leaves on trees...
withering time for chestnuts
1819
best hand it over
to the bride...
chestnut ladle
1819
mushroom gathering--
his sword splits
the plume grass
1819
from the treetop
a monkey points out
the mushrooms
1819
the little boy
is earning a reputation...
mushrooms
1819
for five or six people
only one...
mushroom hunting
1819
for the baby monkey
a nip of sake...
mushroom hunting
1819
for the traveling child
a nip of sake...
mushroom hunting
1819
the mushroom hunters
return empty-handed...
fussing
1819
hanging from
the apprentice's umbrella-hat...
mushrooms
1819
in other places
people line up for them...
horse dung mushrooms
1819
snowflakes flitting down--
a winter solstice
celebration
1819
for one penny
one hit on the prayer gong...
how cold it is!
1819
merely the sight
of wolf shit...
how cold it is!
1819
the old banner
flaps in a thicket
in the cold
1819
"A starling from the sticks!"
he taunts...
how cold it is
1819
a clear morning
the first
pale blue ice
1819
evening's glow--
the deep, deep red
first ice
1819
yanked by the child
tied to a rope...
ball of ice
1819
at the tip of the pole
paper flapping...
a spring day in winter
1819
come what may
trusting in the Buddha
the year ends
1819
paying no heed
to the year's last day...
a floating bird, asleep
1819
evening mountain--
the color of buckwheat noodles
first winter rain
1819
the child rides piggyback
across the river...
winter rain
1819
the bird of karma
circles the trap...
steady winter rain
1819
the little blind child
is overrun...
winter rain
1819
night of winter rain--
the cries of a deer
without a child
1819
a bathhouse boy
beats his wooden drum...
winter rain
1819
winter rain--
the deaf and dumb beggar
beats his bowl
1819
in the box
four or five pennies...
night of winter rain
1819
joining the "starlings"
a night of winter
rain
1819
"A starling from the sticks"
I'm called...
steady winter rain
1819
like wild greese
the winter wind blows...
Horita Field
1819
winter wind on Samusa Bridge--
a samurai's servant
goes home
1819
winter wind--
the blind masseur
called in vain
1819
winter wind--
the frozen north
draws near
1819
in winter wind
a rope stretched...
private road
1819
winter wind--
a twenty-four penny
whorehouse
1819
winter wind--
on the vacant house
Great Horned Master
1819
winter wind--
riding a packhorse
through dust
1819
winter wind--
a Kazusa mountains
through road
1819
a dumping ground
for the first snow...
my backyard
1819
first snowfall--
I take down my indoor
slippers
1819
first snowfall--
soon to be boiled
the playful pig
1819
my house's rear wall--
the beggarly snow
holds on
1819
snow flitting down--
the sky over Shinano
isn't joking
1819
snowy day--
the Shinano man even more
oppressed
1819
a snowy day--
the plucky maidservant
rolls up her sleeves
1819
snowy night--
down a winding alley
a blind masseur's flute
1819
fall, snow!
my poor sake bottle
is dry
1819
fall, hailstones, fall!
one in grandchild's
long-lobed ear
1819
young bucks
licking each other...
morning frost
1819
offering my hut
to the watchman...
night frost
1819
to the west
is Buddha's Paradise...
withered fields
1819
winter prayers--
a cutpurse, too
in moonlight
1819
in a crossroads temple
he claps alone...
winter prayers
1819
he lets me cross
his field...
night of winter prayers
1819
he lets me pass
through the gap in the fence...
night of winter prayers
1819
konjac jelly too
on the venerable Twelfth Day...
first winter rain
1819
foot of the mountain--
two shrine priests
do the "village" dance
1819
midwinter bathers--
on their backs posters
of dragons
1819
winter voice drills--
for this, too
all praise to Amida Buddha!
1819
one might call it
my winter voice drill..
"Praise Buddha!"
1819
father and child's
joint winter voice drill...
praising Buddha
1819
in a dirt-free
home commendable...
winter prayers
1819
rainy night--
yet she chants winter prayers
nonetheless
1819
one by one
don't the pennies drop?
winter prayers
1819
gate after gate
half on their way...
winter prayers
1819
in puffy warm coats
off to winter
prayers we go
1819
a dead ringer
for the Otsu demon...
winter prayers
1819
the whole gang--
reluctantly we're off
to winter prayers
1819
it's becoming
an all-night habit...
winter prayers
1819
staying up all night
my new vice...
winter prayers
1819
evening falls--
not an amateur it seems
at winter prayers
1819
how many people
will take the plunge?
cold water bathing
1819
rolling with
the bamboo soot-broom...
the cat plays
1819
no one to help
with the soot sweeping...
my tears
1819
accompanied by the cat
I hide it by the pine...
swept soot
1819
parents acting
like little kids...
Twelfth Month singers!
1819
the Twelfth Month singers
return from afar...
temple gate
1819
plum blossoms--
a box of old charms
on my back
1819
one for the dog
one for the crow...
rice cakes
1819
"The rice cake man
is next door!"
the child announces
1819
pounding rice cakes--
the altar's god of wealth
beams a smile
1819
not reaching my place--
the sound
of rice cake pounding
1819
to my gate
he seemed to be coming...
neighbor with rice cakes
1819
burdening my child's
back...
rice cakes for the neighbors
1819
stop pestering!
rice cakes are growing
on willow branches
1819
all alone
babbling idiocies...
drinking away the year
1819
hill behind my home
at least ten places...
they drink away the year
1819
the cat joins
the party...
drinking away the year
1819
Kyoto--
even under bridges
drinking away the year
1819
my house--
all by myself
drinking away the year
1819
mountain village--
even in a thicket
a year's end fair
1819
the child's only three
but gets his share...
lucky beans
1819
protection from demons
and wild samurai...
lucky holly
1819
after today
a new year begins!
the color of wheat
1819
from now on
children's voices...
"Demons be gone!"
1819
one shout
and this world's demons
should flee
1819
my country--
even the children
chase off demons
1819
ashamed--
I present myself to Edo
a year older
1819
he drives out devils
for a coin...
moon at the gate
1819
patched
with old wastepaper
my winter coat
1819
the cat breaks it in
sharpening claws...
winter quilt
1819
imperial palace--
in Kyoto even cats
have futons!
1819
no good deeds
but also no sins...
winter seclusion
1819
winter seclusion--
getting better at eating
foul food
1819
winter seclusion--
becoming expert at eating
foul food
1819
life in Kyoto--
you even see charcoal
for five pennies!
1819
charcoal fire--
morning's celebration
of coughing
1819
for Genkuro
Yoshitsune...
a little wood fire
1819
our treasured child
shrieks with laughter...
a cozy wood fire
1819
the war lord's wood fire
rises
first
1819
I enshrine it
on my wood fire...
tea cake
1819
turning my back
to the wood fire...
Saimyo Temple
1819
the season's first
pufferfish soup smoke...
house on the hill
1819
making its living
slyly
the wren
1819
joining the throng
of sparrows
a little wren
1819
begging her to play
her samisen...
plovers
1819
speak softly--
the flock of plovers
takes flight
1819
my house serving
as a windbreak...
sleeping waterfowl
1819
grasses that stay hidden
grasses that don't...
the same withering
1819
standing at a six-way
crossroads...
withered grasses
1819
morning after morning
one by one...
yanking radishes
1819
temple nuns--
it takes two
yanking the radish
1819
yanking a radish
taking a tumble...
little boy
1819
the rejects tossed
in the overgrown field...
radishes
1819
no matter what
is said...
stand of winter trees
1819
dropping quickly
into the lacquered tub...
red leaves
1819
a fistful
spread out for the keg...
red leaves
1819
with a fistful
giving the keg a wipe...
red leaves
1819
winter withering--
autumn's bright flame
dies out
1819
grass-killing frost
is right behind it...
Yoshiwara
1819
killing frost--
catching sight of me
he hits his gong
1819
killing frost--
whitewash peeling off
the mud dumpling
1819
killing frost--
whose face is that
on Meditation Bridge?
1819
people's feet
also getting frost-killed...
Oji street
1819
people's spirits
also getting frost-killed...
Goban Field
1819
so pretty--
riverbeach pinks bloom
out of season
1819
quince thicket--
to proud to quit
blooming out of season
1819
mountain quince--
surrounding the fruit
out-of-season blooms
1819
lazy--
leaving blossoms and moon
for tomorrow
1819
which one of those
tame cranes
will the arrow hit?
1819
Kudara field--
"I could eat a man!"
caws a crow
1819
don't want to see it
don't want to, still...
there's my house!
1819
don't want to remember it
or see it, still
there's my house!
1820
from this year on
clear profit...
this corrupt world's sky
1820
north country--
but on my hut a snowless
First Month
1820
first rain--
a typical north country
New Year's
1820
the roadside's dirt
a wonder to behold...
First Month
1820
in Amida Buddha
trusting...
spring's first dawn
1820
the bush warbler comes
with his shadow...
spring window
1820
with the new spring
tasty sea plants on the beach...
a thousand ages
1820
spring begins--
two households
one house
1820
I swear it's
looking big!
the year's first sun
1820
a big rain--
early New Year's Day
it falls
1820
sprinkled in
with the New Year's rain...
flitting snow
1820
welcome to my house!
First Month's very first
spring rain
1820
utterly soaked
by the year's first rain...
little house
1820
plum blooming--
even hell's gate
CLOSED
1820
today even the
hordes of hell celebrate
the new year
1820
even on a day of fasting
this world's hell
is hell
1820
people pluck little
pines for a thousand ages...
they must hate us!
1820
how to ladle Mama's
lucky tea...
a lesson
1820
at Fukugawa
yelling across the river...
"Happy New Year!"
1820
a pretty kite soars
a beggar's shack
below
1820
a beggar child
walking and flying
a kite
1820
stretching out
toward the first snow...
lion puppet's head
1820
spring pony--
though made of bamboo
so lively!
1820
making rice cakes
with smish-smashing mallets...
plum blossoms
1820
taking their leave
in the flowery Third Month...
radishes
1820
spring has sprung--
but in every thicket, snow
and more snow!
1820
spring peace--
a mouse licking up
Sumida River
1820
calling one another
this peaceful spring day...
wild horses
1820
the crow, too
yawns and yawns...
a long spring day
1820
leading a cow
from a dark barn...
days grow longer
1820
long spring day--
the cow's slobber
about two miles long
1820
chanting "Praise Buddha!"
for a fee...
a long spring day
1820
"Praise Buddha!"
chanted for a fee...
a long spring day
1820
a walking pilgrimage
to Six Amidas...
spring sunlight
1820
"light" spring snow
as if!
four feet deep
1820
morning's first thing--
on praying hands
the spring rain
1820
in deep mountains too
it's a gambler's world!
spring rain
1820
crossing the hanging bridge
singing a song...
spring rain
1820
incense smoke--
Inner Peace Temple
in the spring rain
1820
spring rain--
in my sweetheart's sleeve
coins jingle
1820
spring rain--
a child gives a dance lesson
to the cat
1820
spring rain--
crossing the two-penny bridge
in vain
1820
world of man--
it doesn't fall at once
the spring rain
1820
the puppy has caught
a mouse...
spring breeze
1820
the spring breeze
stubbornly cold...
Shinano mountain
1820
spring breeze--
two samurai
attend the dog
1820
spring breeze--
on the fence a pair
of red sandals
1820
one hotel runner
is a woman...
spring breeze
1820
an east wind blows--
the dog lays his chin
on the bank
1820
his attendants behind
haul the mist...
Lord Kaga
1820
dragged in
by the pheasant's tail...
spring mist
1820
knowing the bell's
deep meaning...
evening mist
1820
out of heat shimmers
taking shape...
my hick province
1820
the goddess of spring
missed a few spots...
mottled mountain
1820
what a shame--
cheating fate for the moment
leftover snow
1820
herons, crows, sparrows
all enjoying
the water's warmth
1820
plowing the rice-seedling bed
'round and around...
horse and pony
1820
dead flowers suddenly
are made to bloom...
Buddha!
1820
joining in
we curl to sleep too...
reclining Buddha
1820
honoring the equinox
crawling in my sleeve...
a louse
1820
visiting the temple
for the showing of the image...
sparrow families
1820
they carry him
to the spring blossoms...
Buddha
1820
cherry tree--
ensconced among blossoms
the hermit doll
1820
they must have kids--
herbs at the gate
for herb cakes
1820
all the way
to the blue sky's edge...
low tide
1820
acting like people
pigeons and sparrows
at low tide
1820
Fukagawa--
in the shrine's garden
low tide shell-gathering
1820
tea leaves picked
and pines trimmed...
house on the hill
1820
a candle standing
on the rock...
grafting the branch
1820
his toothless mouth
holds it...
the branch for grafting
1820
in an ephemeral world
at an ephemeral house's gate...
grafting a tree
1820
frightened off
retracing his steps...
the love-crazed cat
1820
at my gate
the wild cat's route
for prowling
1820
smitten cat--
a case of love-madness
it seems
1820
tethered now
how he snores...
the lover cat
1820
the barrier guard
scolds him in passing...
lover cat
1820
the gatekeeper
opens up...
for the lover cat
1820
dirty, yes
but the cat
has a wife
1820
the antler
that the big buck shed...
my pillow
1820
the buck shedding antlers
pokes his belly...
mountain priest
1820
embarrassed
that he's shed his horns...
mountain buck
1820
moon over western mountains--
the buck
sheds his antlers
1820
look you goblins!
the buck has shed
his horns
1820
surrendering it
to the nesting birds...
my hut
1820
in vain
the baby bird begs...
a stepchild
1820
sparrows at the gate--
a quarrel between brothers
breaks out
1820
"Baby sparrow's
a sissy!"
playing with the girls
1820
a bush warbler sings--
the east gate
of Amida's Pure Land
1820
a pheasant cries--
"From here to the west
your hut's territory!"
1820
borrowing the buck's
back, the pheasant
cries
1820
hiding in the field
Buddha's sleeve
a pheasant cries
1820
parents and child
three in a row...
the geese depart
1820
three times 'round
Karasaki...
departing geese
1820
even the turtle
wants feathers...
the geese depart
1820
in the dark night, too
finding their way...
the geese depart
1820
like giving birth
with that belly!
croaking frog
1820
at Edo River
even among frogs...
rude talk
1820
at Edo River
a lot of rude talk...
croaking frogs
1820
even the hackberry tree
dressed for spring...
croaking frogs
1820
hopping frogs--
over my hand that fans
my pipe lighter
1820
in his regular seat
for moon-gazing...
a frog
1820
at Edo River
a lot of rude talk...
frogs
1820
evening frog
what are you meditating on?
Meditation Bridge
1820
the butterfly I passed
two miles back
is ahead now
1820
the yellow gang
the white gang...
butterflies come out
1820
yellow gang, white gang
the butterflies claim
their turf
1820
I pity you
for following me
little butterfly
1820
a shock
to the arriving butterfly
a fence
1820
white versus yellow--
the butterflies also
fight
1820
sedge mat--
look! look! butterflies
you've stained it
1820
foraging for food
in my thatched hut
little butterfly
1820
first butterfly--
don't let my straw mat
muddy you!
1820
claiming
the big sake cup...
a little butterfly
1820
my arm
for its pillow
the butterfly sleeps
1820
"Silkworm doctor
silkworm doctor, hurry!"
little girl
1820
playing doctor
for the silkworms...
little girl
1820
"This way to the hut!"
the horsefly
flies
1820
single file on the road--
one horsefly
one me
1820
acting as guide
on the mountain road...
horsefly
1820
mountain road--
"This way, come! Come!"
the horsefly flies
1820
the hornet too
knowing the eaves
returns
1820
my province--
even the grass blooms
cherry blossoms
1820
at the edge
of a stinking well...
plum blossoms
1820
on this wall
no vain writing allowed...
plum blossoms
1820
fluttering their way
onto my head...
plum blossoms
1820
in his red hair
stowing his pipe...
blossom viewing
1820
"There's some blossoms!
and over there!"
laughing Buddha
1820
no divine punishment yet--
rain
of cherry blossoms
1820
father and son
go their separate ways...
blossom viewing
1820
hair and beards
of comrades all white...
blossom shade
1820
the hairdos
of companions all white...
blossom shade
1820
on little straw mats
tired of the blossoms...
they snore
1820
one after another--
days in the blossoming
mountains
1820
he sneaks up
to my thatched hut
for blossom viewing
1820
treating my thatched hut
like home...
blossom viewers
1820
with a lantern
into the gap of blossom
clouds
1820
the distant mountain's
blossoms cast their light...
east window
1820
blossoms scatter--
in the shade of parasols
drunken revelry
1820
young folk beat us
to the spot!
blossom shade
1820
the stone Buddha
serves as a windbreak...
cherry blossoms
1820
Edo's cherry blossoms, too
shine only
for money
1820
the spot to display
Buddha's image...
blooming cherry tree
1820
today again, "Cherry blossoms!
Cherry blossoms!"
they say
1820
sleeping mat--
amid cherry blossoms cooling
my heels
1820
one raindrop
pats my head...
from the cherry blossoms
1820
night's cherry blossoms--
heavenly ladies
among us
1820
again the river
blooms yellow roses...
Yoshino Hill
1820
no need to latch
the hut's door...
willow in the wind
1820
the pony
has crept
through the willow
1820
the skinner's willow
with its lounge chair limb
so green!
1820
for firefly-sparkled
evenings
planting a willow
1820
cheek in hand
Goddess Kannon
in willow shade
1820
summer evening--
they watch from two houses
wildflowers
1820
unthinkingly
onto the hanging bridge...
cool air
1820
a fresh-made dewdrop
is cool too...
moon at the gate
1820
brushwood fence--
its cool shadow
changes my direction
1820
also in the cool breeze--
a gourd that can hold
two quarts
1820
a cool house
the Pure Land's
west gate
1820
cool air--
out of four gates
entering just one
1820
cool air--
on the earthen bridge
a tobacco tray
1820
cool air--
the little lamp can't dry
the starch
1820
speaking truth
the rainy season's crack
of thunder
1820
blades of grass--
"This June rain
is foolishly punctual!"
1820
splish splash--
this June rain
foolishly persistent
1820
a cloudburst
and then, right away
June rain
1820
the same sound
as water boiling...
June rain
1820
departing the facing mountain
it comes this way...
little cloudburst
1820
with apologies
a cloudburst passes
by
1820
just now
two cloudbursts in a row...
that village yonder
1820
just wind
yet still a cloudburst
evening
1820
my butt spanked
by the cloudburst...
siesta
1820
a cloudburst--
the god of Osugi Shrine
makes dreams come true
1820
slipping down
into the lake...
billowing clouds
1820
flowing from the feet
of Goddess Kannon...
pure water
1820
even children
want to wear 'em!
pots on heads
1820
for just a little while
a sight to see...
evening's shrine boats
1820
Mr. Toad deigns
to creep out...
the shrine boat
1820
like this since
olden times?
evening's shrine boats
1820
mother's turn--
once more through
the purification hoop
1820
life in Edo--
from a second-floor window
summer's first banner
1820
from holy Jizo's
holy neck it hangs...
rice dumpling
1820
Mama tosses one
to teach her how...
rice dumpling
1820
the bent nail
its hanging place...
rice dumpling
1820
her rice dumpling
doesn't resemble
the example
1820
young folk in bathrobes
well, well...
their idea of summer garb
1820
people of Kyoto
in parasol shade in fields...
drinking parties
1820
even for stealing water
for my rice field...
I take my parasol
1820
making her mother
hold it...
the parasol
1820
sleeping under
new mosquito nets...
horses of Edo
1820
even the poor
workhorses of Edo sleep...
in mosquito nets!
1820
dangling a mosquito net
I go out to eat...
evening's tea-and-rice
1820
forgive me please
rice field workers!
napping under the net
1820
the potted orchid
in the mosquito net
trembles
1820
under an umbrella-hat
curled up, asleep...
siesta
1820
under the bell
over the clapper...
a noon nap
1820
rice field ridge--
a one-rush mat
siesta shack
1820
one branch of the hackberry tree
for shade...
siesta
1820
everyone is taking
a midday nap...
the child pretends
1820
top to bottom
the mouse eats
the fan
1820
a fool to think
the mouse wouldn't eat it...
paper fan
1820
living in comfort in Edo
his left hand
fanning
1820
not big enough
for the blind priest's head...
paper fan
1820
top to bottom
the mouse eats it...
round paper fan
1820
for the stepchild
only one paper fan...
mended
1820
using up one
incense stick...
mosquito smudge pot
1820
the in-law family
living in harmony...
evening cool
1820
though they bite
they're Kyoto mosquitos...
evening cool
1820
night after night
the same faces...
cool air at the gate
1820
night after night
rejuvenation...
cool air at the gate
1820
a divine wind
blowing all night...
becomes sake!
1820
not possible even
in the age of gods...
this overnight sake
1820
not even in a world
where sweet nectar rains...
this overnight sake
1820
festival--
in just one night
sake is born!
1820
shallow well--
the little fish's playmate
sweet jelly tub
1820
a cluster of azaleas
in my chilled soup...
floating
1820
a straw mat dragged out
for chilled soup...
deep tree shade
1820
chilled soup--
added in suddenly
a lightning flash
1820
chilled soup in the garden--
shaded by pines
and cherry trees
1820
presented
to a grumpy face...
chilled noodles
1820
young buck--
such a good life
with Mother
1820
look at that!
deer in sweet harmony
mother and fawn
1820
in a village
without birds
bats at dinnertime
1820
"All my feathers
have been eaten up!"
chirps the bird
1820
hated crow--
even your feathers
abandon you
1820
foolish bird--
after molting
what are you thinking?
1820
walking along
drying the paper umbrella...
"Cuckoo!"
1820
in this darkness
don't get your nose pinched!
cuckoo
1820
that way
the stones sing too!
cuckoo
1820
rain pours down--
a cuckoo
on Mount Machikane
1820
cuckoo--
in a palanquin to Yoshiwara
he flies!
1820
mountain cuckoo
you're nothing
but a crybaby!
1820
bush warbler--
don't catch old age!
my house
1820
though wrapped
in a butterbur leaf...
firefly's light
1820
reed-thatched house--
just a glimmer left of
the flitting firefly
1820
reed-thatched house--
though sweeping and sweeping
fireflies come
1820
in fresh-grabbed
grass, look!
the first firefly
1820
evicted
from the sunset bell...
firefly
1820
big firefly
you'd better go! go!
someone's calling
1820
stumbling into
mosquito smudge smoke...
a firefly
1820
after leaving Kyoto
catching your breath?
first firefly
1820
a firefly flits--
teardrops are bound
to fall
1820
pretending to sleep
landing on my head...
a firefly
1820
first firefly
why the cold shoulder?
it's me!
1820
firefly cage--
Koremitsu has been
summoned here
1820
get out of Sin City
get out!
first firefly
1820
being an orphan
I cast no light...
firefly
1820
toward the calling voice
flying with gusto...
firefly
1820
do you think my sleeve
is grass?
crawling firefly
1820
make your peace!
Nishiyama fireflies
Seta fireflies
1820
deftly escaping
its cage in the bowl...
firefly
1820
O insects of summer
there's time yet
for lovemaking!
1820
my hut's lamp--
even moths don't come
to the flame
1820
don't strike
sunset's bell...
tiger moth
1820
this is the way
it chooses to go...
moth to flame
1820
now is not
a good time to come!
flame-drawn moth
1820
to a hut with no lamp
hidden in trees
a tiger moth flits
1820
in this break
in the rain once again...
tiger moth
1820
why is fire
so much fun...
tiger moth?
1820
a tiger moth!
our conversation
interrupted
1820
chased by
the spotted cat...
tiger moth
1820
idle gossip--
our lantern put out
by a moth
1820
fleeing the hell
of thicket ants...
tiger moth
1820
twice or thrice
circling aimlessly...
clumsy tiger moth
1820
hut's mosquitos--
first
to raise their voices
1820
mosquitos revel
to their hearts' content...
watchman's shack
1820
blade of grass
sprouted from a wall
mosquito's den
1820
mosquitos too
stage quite a riot...
Edo nook
1820
the loathsome
live too long...
mosquitos
1820
on a blade of grass
the mosquito
plays dead
1820
holding fast
to the stone Buddha
a mosquito
1820
amid blades of grass
this world is good!
buzz the flies
1820
living long
the flies, fleas, mosquitos...
a poor village
1820
the mother cat
gnawing her kitten's
fleas
1820
in a grassy field
rubbing off fleas...
the cat
1820
my sleeping mat--
where the mouse drops
her fleas
1820
having gnawed their fleas
and put them to bed, she leaves...
mother cat
1820
on Oi River
swishing without thought...
water strider
1820
outskirts of Edo--
tiny slices for sale
summer's first bonito
1820
before the admiral
hordes of them!
summer's first bonito
1820
summer's first bonito--
just tiny slices
for sale
1820
the mulberry tree
is a Buddhist monk...
poppies
1820
a rainy night--
sizing up the potted
peony
1820
in Edo
even the blooming pink
is sold
1820
duckweed
inside the kettle too...
blooming
1820
duckweed--
while it carouses
it blooms
1820
floating duckweed--
appropriate
in this floating world
1820
moss provides
the blooming flowers...
grave mound
1820
what are you counting
sparrows?
this year's bamboo
1820
world of new bamboo--
mountain bamboo grasses
raise children too
1820
bamboo shoots--
a woman digs them up
like a dog
1820
a night sermon
with gestures...
summer trees
1820
facing the god
of Pear Tree Hill...
deep tree shade
1820
the horse sleeps
standing up...
persimmon blooms
1820
the praying mantis's
shy expression...
wild roses
1820
my scrawny plum tree
too
is fruitless
1820
the puppy comes tumbling
after the red
plum
1820
for the red plum
in leafy shade...
barking puppy
1820
not knowing that
autumn's begun, puppy
Buddha!
1820
"First autumn morning"
just saying it...
feel old
1820
nippy weather--
the Buddha takes leave
of Zenkô Temple
1820
morning cold--
on the fence the tea strainer's
shadow
1820
morning cold--
for the chrysanthemum too
a little hot water
1820
morning cold--
men of leisure
stay put
1820
the chicken
tilts its head in wonder...
a cold night
1820
that blue sky
way too pretty...
a cold night
1820
growing old
even a mouse gets a pass...
a cold night
1820
making the copper
pheasant's tail droop...
a cold night
1820
a boulder that looks
like an old woman asleep...
autumn evening
1820
I'm all alone
on the ferry...
autumn dusk
1820
secluded house--
the drunk I hired
in the autumn dusk
1820
hanging bridge--
a blind man crosses too
in autumn dusk
1820
I too
without a home...
autumn dusk
1820
the pine tree too
in the circle of old men...
autumn dusk
1820
sickle moon--
in the reed huts of Edo too
autumn dusk
1820
my pine tree too
is bent with age...
autumn dusk
1820
into my home village
it flows...
the Milky Way
1820
in cold water
sipping the stars...
Milky Way
1820
on the nape of my neck
a chill...
the Milky Way
1820
scowling
at the sickle moon...
cicada husk
1820
Eighth Month--
a rainy night, pre-harvest moon
in the mountains of Shinano
1820
this autumn
vegetarian meal sake
for moon-gazing
1820
taking advantage
of harvest moonlight...
shouldering a musket
1820
entrusted
to the harvest moon...
rear of my house
1820
harvest moon--
outside my place too
holy Jizo stands
1820
harvest moon--
vegetarian meal sake
becoming normal
1820
harvest moon--
eyes straining
all night long
1820
harvest moon--
deep in the mountain
a mountain moon
1820
eyes straining
I too join
the moon-gazers
1820
one nondrinker--
harvest moon eclipse
gazers
1820
go ahead, steal
those rice cakes on the eaves!
Ninth Month moon
1820
even the Buddha
ventures outside...
clear fall weather
1820
in two houses
preparing rice cakes...
autumn rain
1820
autumn wind--
the Buddha of Zenkô Temple
has left
1820
from the weaned
pony's face...
autumn wind
1820
finishing together--
morning dew
and the flower shop
1820
floating forth
on the morning dew...
mountain town
1820
whether they have a taste
starts a quarrel...
pearls of dew
1820
if they were sweet
dewdrops, no doubt, would be
"mine" and "thine"
1820
dewdrops forming--
ten days in a row
of clear sky
1820
congratulations
to you all!
morning's dewdrops
1820
even on his arms
dewdrops
the tea seller
1820
hanging from
the hunter's body...
evening dew
1820
morning dew
more than enough
for face-washing
1820
cutting ahead of me
my child goes first to Buddha...
dewy grass
1820
good work
showing pale blue sky...
autumn dew
1820
how many beads
are sweat?
blades of grass
1820
earthen teapot
ah! all full
with autumn dew
1820
on all four sides
of the boxwood hedge...
dew dripping down
1820
dewdrops scatter--
over fifty travelers
en masse
1820
this dewdrop world's
dewdrops in a row...
little gambling shack
1820
the field horse's head
is drying...
autumn dew
1820
dewy lotus--
the life of Buddha
salty and sweet
1820
dripping from the flower vendor's
display...
morning dew
1820
evening dew--
the lamp is lit
in its usual place
1820
autumn departs
yet still on the rice field
autumn dew
1820
young folk
just don't get it...
evening dew
1820
in lightning's flash
faces in a row...
each one fifty
1820
lightning impregnates
seeds with life...
even for weeds
1820
lightning flash--
only the puppy's face
is innocent
1820
harbinger
of a fruitful year...
huge lightning!
1820
away from home
but such a Bon dance!
Zenkô Temple
1820
plumes of plume grass
all a-flutter...
festival dancers
1820
while Buddha
is away from home...
great Bon dance
1820
entering Kyoto
he lets loose a neigh...
Shinano pony
1820
feeding him grass
farewell! farewell!
the pony's master
1820
led-away pony--
how has this year's
buckwheat grown?
1820
a parting gift
of wildflowers...
seeing off the horse
1820
a sack of buckwheat
goes with him...
seeing off the pony
1820
harvest gifts--
in the dog's bowl too
red beans and rice
1820
harvest gift--
on the tray laying
a good-luck bag
1820
Chrysantheum Festival--
the drunk I hired
gives me sake
1820
secluded house--
with the drunk I hired
Chrysanthemum Festival wine
1820
hey, young pine
how about a song?
bird clapper
1820
night in the hut--
from every direction
a cloth-pounding cacophony
1820
it's a land
of treasured children!
evening cloth-pounding
1820
watching her treasured
child's sleeping face...
pounding cloth
1820
going back to sleep
with praise from my heart...
evening cloth-pounding
1820
faintly heard--
one cloth-pounder
is Mother
1820
I offer new rice
at his grave...
he has no relatives
1820
this vain life--
the rice crop this year
is less
1820
sunrise--
ten deer couples
grunting their love
1820
back window--
the deer strikes a pose
the dog barks
1820
back window--
the deer strikes a pose
the dog sleeps
1820
even the deer--
parents, child
a family of three
1820
the young buck kneels
on one knee...
mountain moon
1820
deer in the shadows
of plume grass...
how many couples?
1820
cries of the deer--
in a village without dogs
a moonlit night
1820
a deer cries
and the insects aren't sleeping
either
1820
barking deer--
am I a suspicious character
in your eyes?
1820
the friendly deer--
my hands for a pillow
and my feet
1820
in the thicket
the old buck bellows
for honor's sake
1820
night storm--
blowing in the window
cry of a deer
1820
glimpsing suspicious me
the deer sounds
the alarm
1820
passing through
the grain checking station...
a quail
1820
a snipe rises
and right behind me...
a fool
1820
"There's the moon!
The moon!"
wild geese clamor
1820
in the wake
of the Buddhist procession...
honking geese
1820
the long snake
head to tail, down the hole...
success!
1820
into the snake's hole
O foolish
mouse
1820
singing insects, too
make music
in this world
1820
O insects
don't you complain too!
this autumn
1820
for singing insects
complaining
is a feat
1820
the singing insects
so prone
to complaining!
1820
in this world
among insects too...
good singers, bad singers
1820
what a clamor!
even for the insects
night work
1820
better than me
at long distance!
farting bug
1820
on the tip
of Buddha's nose...
fart bug
1820
fallen face-up
but singing...
autumn cicada
1820
stuffing himself
on the morning dew
dragonfly
1820
a gang of red
dragonflies...
Mount Kamiji
1820
today too
dragging his tail...
dragonfly
1820
the distant mountain
reflected in his eyes...
dragonfly
1820
departing
from the dragonfly's top...
his head
1820
slipping right off
the dragonfly...
his head
1820
dragonflies like people--
restless, restless
eyes
1820
a dragonfly copies
the red leaves...
Tatsuta River
1820
like the weaver's
chopstick for her loom...
a dragonfly
1820
atop the hundred
foot-tall pole...
a dragonfly
1820
scowling
at the sickle moon...
a dragonfly
1820
deep inside
a cricket is singing...
oven
1820
the cricket
"Cricky! Cricky!" laughing
by himself
1820
locusts flying
"The word is good!
All good!"
1820
katydids--
when three of them gather
they quarrel
1820
the katydid--
even while they sell him
singing
1820
from the hole
in the money box...
a katydid
1820
to the beat
of grinding teeth
the katydid sings
1820
atop the scripture
reader's head...
a katydid
1820
at the sound of the sunset
bell...
wildflowers
1820
world of man--
one by one the wildflowers
scatter
1820
the verandah cat's
lofty expression...
chrysanthemum
1820
how you've grown!
last year's champion
chrysanthemum
1820
last year
"Champion of Champions"...
chrysanthemum's placard
1820
ashamed that the winning
spirit's been lost...
chrysanthemum hut
1820
in Kyoto
even for chrysanthmums...
cotton courtier caps
1820
the mountain chrysanthemum
born to its nature...
perfectly straight
1820
the mountain chrysanthemum
grows up straight...
naturally
1820
mountain chrysanthemum--
growing crooked's a thing
it knows nothing about
1820
covering about ten
with cotton cloth...
young chrysanthemums
1820
in a village of people
they grow crooked...
field chrysanthemums
1820
bush clover temple--
the deer strikes a pose
the dog sleeps
1820
my bush clover--
instead of deer
a sleeping dog
1820
how many people
sweated and toiled!
rice blossoms
1820
rice blossoms--
a large man
lost in them
1820
even the puppy
drums his belly...
rice blossoms
1820
in little ditch
by the vacant temple...
ears of rice
1820
about ten strands
loaded on the dog...
ears of rice
1820
a man must be a samurai!
though little
you're a hot pepper
1820
the children
pretend to be foxes...
plume grass
1820
my home village--
come close and the plume grass
cuts you
1820
amid plumes of plume grass
a poor "Praise Buddha!"
hidden
1820
where people
see ghosts...
field of plume grass
1820
just a speck
of sweetness...
the persimmon
1820
from the persimmon tree
he answers...
little priest
1820
master monk's boy
to the mountain...
up the persimmon tree
1820
enduring the puckery
persimmon...
Kyoto child
1820
Mother eats
the puckery part...
mountain persimmon
1820
the persimmon's puckery--
the crow, too, knows
and passes on
1820
Kyoto child--
pretending the persimmon
is sweet
1820
mountain persimmons--
in Buddha's eyes
they are sweet
1820
this pomegranate
tastes like me
enjoy it, little louse!
1820
Great Japan!
the mountain pepper
has kids
1820
the burry chestnuts
won't be sent...
blossoming Kyoto
1820
hill of chestnuts--
my crappy rice field
by the gate
1820
chestnut among brushwood--
just one
bursting open
1820
do you mice
think you're brides?
chestnut ladle
1820
ashamed--
eyes glued to the chestnut
beyond reach
1820
big mushroom--
even horse dung
had its day
1820
it's a man-killing
mushroom, true...
but pretty!
1820
behind me
the cold sneaks in...
hole in the wall
1820
into slits on the skirt
of the palanquin bearer...
winter cold
1820
solitary house--
a quick special delivery
of winter cold
1820
getting used to
horsemen crossing it...
the ice
1820
lined up
with goods for sale...
an ice ball
1820
this ice--
if you look hard
it's a lake
1820
not realizing it's ice--
crossing
the lake
1820
if you cross it
cross lightly!
ice
1820
hanging alongside
the straw sandals...
a ball of ice
1820
a cold moon
facing the cold
mountain temple
1820
the fire reaches
the distant mountain...
first winter rain
1820
a wiggling worm
peeks out...winter rain!
winter rain!
1820
standing firm
to stop the winter wind...
my Stone Boy
1820
now the winter
wind has arrived...
no difference
1820
winter wind--
the fireman's horse
riding it
1820
just for lonely me--
a storm, winter wind
slippery road
1820
it's a load
on the cow's head...
pile of snow
1820
Shinano road--
the snow falls
stubbornly
1820
before my eyes
the rubbish heap too...
gone in morning snow
1820
best take your time
coming in...
snow at the gate
1820
what a straight
piss hole!
snow at the gate
1820
even the snow
so straight and even...
Kyoto
1820
deep in the pine
once again to wash...
hands with snow
1820
snow falling--
people pass through
the temple's great gate
1820
in falling snow
delivered to a palanquin...
buckwheat noodles
1820
snow falling--
irises in the eaves
mark the occasion
1820
snow falling--
the palanquin to Yoshiwara
is flying
1820
snow falling--
tossed out hot water
makes steam
1820
the horse stops
at the sake shop...
a blizzard
1820
a triangle of snow
blown on the floor...
to my pillow
1820
a mat drooping
over my head...
I split the blizzard
1820
snow blows in
diamond shaped...
iron lantern
1820
snow blows in
diamond shaped...
tatami mat
1820
from the window's hole
and the wall's crack...
the blizzard
1820
little straw mat--
the cat comes with a coat
of snowflakes
1820
morning frost--
yet still a child sells
temple flowers
1820
cricket on a frosty
night...
bragging!
1820
beggar child--
even in his lap
morning frost
1820
five or six horses
cooling down...
the withered fields
1820
dirt-poor god
of my house, too...
join the throng!
1820
Tenth Month's
venerable twelfth day...
first winter rain
1820
a haiku reading
in memoriam...
first winter rain
1820
Basho's Death-Day--
even in Hokkaido this moon
in the pine
1820
first winter rain--
bells are tinkling
today
1820
Lotus Sutra--
the birds remember Basho
too
1820
in the outcastes' town
a Buddhist banner...
the frosty month
1820
Mokubo Temple--
non-stop "Praise Buddha!"
a winter voice drill
1820
today's the day--
a boy's head shaved
for winter prayers
1820
Kyoto--
even to winter prayers
going with friends
1820
just watching
makes me shiver...
cold water bathing
1820
kindly the wind
sweeps my sooty
hut
1820
his soot-broom
like Takasago's...
the old man dances
1820
even soot-sweeping
on an unlucky day...
so much harder!
1820
mountain village--
four or five years of soot
need sweeping
1820
hot bath steam
rising from his head...
Twelfth Month singer
1820
even well into
the First Month...
Twelfth Month singers!
1820
not to be outdone
by the Twelfth Month singers...
the gate's sparrows
1820
a samisen joins
the Twelfth Month singers...
Kyoto
1820
Twelfth Month singers--
one strokes plum blossoms
with her whisk
1820
after a hacking cold
right away...
Twelfth Month singers
1820
secluded house--
three cats guard
the rice cakes
1820
the god's rice cakes
weighed in the scales...
floating world
1820
down the middle
of the flat rice cake...
cat's path
1820
Great Japan!
even for the stable's horses
a gift of new clothes
1820
even the crow
has a grove
to grow old in
1820
not aiming to grow
a year older...
traveling crow
1820
the nature child
runs away naked...
winter moxa cautery
1820
practicing
with the snowshoes...
putting them on
1820
snowshoes--
in front of the hut
print after print
1820
snowshoes--
following behind, the dog
swims
1820
the village child
builds it with a ladle...
Snow Mountain
1820
the village child
builds it with her hands...
Snow Mountain
1820
my dwelling--
somewhere behind
the bundled snow
1820
even our fleeting snow
becomes
Buddha!
1820
watching a war lord
drenched to the bone...
my cozy brazier
1820
charcoal fire--
passing through old age
is like that
1820
charcoal-making smoke--
a floating world, isn't it?
big sky
1820
in North Country
a ten-minute life...
winter fly
1820
familiar grasses
and unfamiliar...
the same withering
1820
cultivated chrysanthemums
wither
first
1820
there's no shame
that you totter...
old chrysanthemum
1820
my gate--
just six radishes
remain in supply
1820
on the fresh-plowed
field fallen leaves
scatter
1820
the kitten dances
round and round...
falling leaves
1820
the kitten holds it down
just a moment...
fallen leaf
1820
winter withering--
at the farmhouse the rain
falls sideways
1820
highway--
people on it also
are frost-killed
1820
killing frost--
but Iroha Teahouse
still lives!
1820
year after year
frost kills the grass...
Iroha Teahouse
1820
people's faces
also getting frost-killed...
Sugamo street
1820
cranes land
on the rubbish heap...
Waka Beach
1820
the cranes swarm
the rubbish heap...
Waka Beach
1820
to a massive rock
grow quickly my pebble...
Ishitaro
1821
on New Year's Day, too
standing "as is"...
trashy house
1821
New Year's Day
nothing to report...
trashy house
1821
on New Year's Day
everywhere, a corrupt world's
blossoms
1821
a new spring starting--
early, so early
turns sour
1821
from this year on
in my left hand, umbrella-hat
in the right, knapsack
1821
from this year on
clear profit, carousing
in this world
1821
from this year on
just carousing...
this world's blossoms
1821
the First Month celebration
starts up again...
waterfowl
1821
First Month, second day
the laziness
begins
1821
spring's first dawn--
there's not a village
where it isn't
1821
roof after roof
all at once, windows...
spring begins
1821
don't shrivel!
even for the devil's tongue
a prosperous spring
1821
at my gate
wildly it grows...
spring pine
1821
we start the spring
in our everyday clothes...
me and the sparrow
1821
spring begins--
on the hut's unlucky side
a grave
1821
spring begins--
the obligatory
sparrows at the gate
1821
it's sooty too--
the New Year god's
home
1821
entrusting all
to the New Year's god...
head to toe
1821
the cat considers
jumping up...
New Year's offering shelf
1821
for drinking buddies
the usual New Year's pilgrimage...
sake shop
1821
even on Honen's Death-Day--
shaky feet
shaky hands
1821
on the day of fasting
even the foot mill
is idle
1821
yanking up a little pine
he says
a prayer
1821
even for the man
pooping in the field...
New Year's pine
1821
sending a "Happy
New Year!"
down the fox's hole
1821
my New Year's greeting
is answered...
second floor
1821
a good man--
crossing a mountain to say
"Happy New Year!"
1821
New Year's gate greetings--
on each side of the road
tracks of sandals
1821
"Happy New Year!"
at the gate, tossing the cat
a present
1821
high and low
dangling from the packhorse...
New Year's greetings
1821
the wooden clogs
serve a dual role...
New Year's road
1821
reading it to discover
the price of rice...
New Year's greeting letter
1821
a samurai--
after an apology
a "Happy New Year!"
1821
going out to collect
my presents...
making my New Year's rounds
1821
making their New Year's rounds
tracks of clogs
tracks of sandals
1821
meeting enroute
a quick exchange...
"Happy New Year!"
1821
samurai street--
over the quince hedge
"Happy New Year!"
1821
the priest's shaved head
perks up...
"Happy New Year!"
1821
down one more
fox's hole...
"Happy New Year!"
1821
the best New Year's
present!
her pink cheeks
1821
people of Edo
even for the hut's dog
a New Year's gift
1821
no one to give
New Year's presents to...
little hut
1821
taking two helpings
of New Year's gifts...
little boy
1821
now show us
your New Year's gifts...
pink cheeks
1821
on top
of the New Year's gifts...
cat curled asleep
1821
New Year's gift--
tossed in the window
while I was out
1821
the treasured child
writes with a cane...
year's first calligraphy
1821
you've wrecked
my year's first dream!
cawing crow
1821
my year's first dream's
good luck burns away...
evening smoke
1821
how many older brothers
for this little Buddha?
New Year's clothes
1821
the little pilgrim
while receiving alms
flies a kite
1821
a strict non-drinker
he looks menacing...
begging actor
1821
he sure doesn't look
like a non-drinker...
begging actor
1821
in place
of begging actors
chattering sparrows
1821
non-drinking begging actor--
more and more
I'm disliking him!
1821
sitting room--
eyes locked on his treat
the monkey dances
1821
mother monkey
teaches her baby...
dance moves
1821
dancing monkey--
he gives his rice cake
to the child
1821
silently eating
their rice cake soup...
two roommates
1821
even for the holy hermit
today, a square
of rice cake soup!
1821
if only you'd open
your eyes again...
rice cake soup on the tray
1821
in my hut today
a square
of rice cake soup!
1821
rice cake offering--
I borrow a bite
from Buddha's lap
1821
old man in the kitchen--
his New Year's tooth-hardening
beats mine
1821
teeth-hardening meal--
will it also
harden gums?
1821
a New Year's toast
for his wrinkled face...
laughter
1821
spiced sake bottle--
ah, following tradition
is good!
1821
she pounds the seven herbs
without singing...
a wise old face
1821
picking morning herbs
on the way home
from the shrine visit
1821
a big field
with a "Keep Out" sign...
picking herbs
1821
almost mist
the smoke of their pipes...
picking herbs
1821
letting the little boy
hold the lantern...
picking herbs
1821
the chicken is treated
to one...
New Year's herbs
1821
for each one picked
a puff on the pipe...
herbs
1821
the woods are dark
but out and about...
the year's first crow
1821
from this bird
the year's first song
rises
1821
signs of spring--
golden flowers blooming
and mountain moon
1821
it's springtime!
even the thicket's lice
move into the field
1821
spring day--
in courtly robe and hat
he begs
1821
a long spring day--
even getting in the bath
is a chore
1821
a long spring day--
the dog and the crow
quarreling
1821
wage thief--
no matter how long the day
lazes around
1821
boards over a ditch
twinkling...
spring snow
1821
the puppy has caught
a mouse...
spring rain
1821
spring breeze--
a thicket mouse
caught by the dog
1821
spring breeze--
in coat and trousers
a dandified beggar
1821
spring breeze--
in coat and trousers
an Edo beggar
1821
even for the horse
a dose of burning wormwood...
spring breeze
1821
day mist--
the census taker reckons it
about seven miles
1821
lamplight
in the spring mist...
dawn
1821
me and Buddha--
our heads
in spring mist
1821
heat shimmers--
his laughing face
lingers
1821
atop the main temple
a rooster crows
"Snow's melting!"
1821
a bird at my feet
takes off...
spring mountain
1821
into the scattering blooms
pilgrims
and Buddha
1821
shaded by blossoms--
my way of observing
Kukai's death day
1821
Kukai's image on display
along with...
cherry blossoms
1821
gnawing the edge
of the prize painting...
burning wormwood
1821
the same hoe
plows the snow too...
mountain rice field
1821
friend of the pine
friend of the crane...
he plows his field
1821
tilling the morning glory
field...
morning tea
1821
the lover cat
filled with remorse
at my door
1821
the stray cat's
yowl for love
a bit weak
1821
the stray cat's wife
fails
to make her entrance
1821
she keeps the nest
nice and neat...
widow bird
1821
the black kite's nest, too
in the unlucky direction...
Mount Hie
1821
bush warbler stomping
knocks it down...
the house's moss
1821
the bush warbler sings
like he's been around...
Ueno
1821
the bush warbler, too
a bit hoarse from a cold...
plum blossoms
1821
the bush warbler
resigned to his fate...
voice in a cage
1821
arriving in Japan
wearing rouge...
the swallows
1821
wearing rouge
lined up in a row...
morning swallows
1821
looking like ants
person after person...
an evening lark
1821
mimicking the voice
of the barrier guard...
a pheasant
1821
don't cry, geese
parting is always
the same thing
1821
in yellow roses
making rude remarks...
a frog
1821
with a plum blossom
umbrella-hat, croaking
frog
1821
his face all ready
for negotiation...
a frog
1821
he prepares to state
his case...
squatting frog
1821
when butterflies
are pale blue, pale blue
cherry blossoms
1821
from birth on
for butterflies, playing
is their job
1821
well behaved--
the butterfly, too
wears light blue
1821
the crazy one
calms down a bit...
light blue butterfly
1821
playing their games
on the sly...
pale blue butterflies
1821
counting heads
of the shrine visitors...
little butterfly
1821
butterfly dancing--
under the horse's gut
unaware
1821
butterfly, look!
parents and child, three
sleep together
1821
I crawl in to join
the sleepers...
meadow butterflies
1821
sleeping in a row--
little butterfly, cat
high priest
1821
gambling in the field--
from the pot
a little butterfly
1821
taking a dip
in the creek's bath water...
little butterfly
1821
in the hot tub
on someone's head...
butterfly's rest stop
1821
with a light heart
in this world...
light blue butterfly
1821
on a blade of grass
the horsefly
plays dead
1821
the parent bee
its honey being stolen
buzzes near
1821
the bees with children
are work-a-holics...
making honey
1821
renting a spot
next to the beehive...
sparrows
1821
the little boy
tumbling all day...
violets
1821
with a yogi's self-denial
they've bloomed...
camellias at my gate
1821
at my gate
with a yogi's self-denial...
blooming camellias
1821
young sparrows
playing ring-around-the-
camellia
1821
with one blooming
plum tree
teahouse of reeds
1821
plum blooming--
deep in Shinano, too
tracks of sandals
1821
still plum blossoms
my head, by itself
bows
1821
by itself
my head bows...
plum blossoms!
1821
on one sleeve
the bright moon...
plum blossoms!
1821
even the black
painted horse is happy!
plum blossoms
1821
even here
a holy image enshrined
plum blossoms
1821
even for the god
of the outhouse...
plum blossoms
1821
stuck-up plum trees
blossoming white...
Fujiha Temple
1821
the head priest
pretends to be a drinker...
plum blossoms
1821
about a hundred birds
passing through...
plum blossoms
1821
divine wind, begone
to the Northern Sea!
cherry blossoms
1821
when the wind
is finally done, so are
the blossoms
1821
cherry blossoms--
a sleeve-tugging rain
again today
1821
with a samisen
she supports her parents...
blossom shade
1821
Takai Field--
just one blossom cloud
on a tree trunk
1821
while selling his dumplings
and such...
blossom viewing
1821
shading his eyes
where are you gazing, weasel?
blossom clouds
1821
around the old man's waist
blossom viewing...
a name tag
1821
cherry blossoms--
cows follow cows
horses, horses
1821
cherry blossom cold spell--
even the dog
can't help but sneeze
1821
blossoming mountain--
from east, west, north, south
people come
1821
blizzard of blossoms--
with muddy sandals
passing through
1821
Buddha's saints
come out! come out!
clouds of blossoms
1821
a wild duck
strangely twisted...
Lake Yogo
1821
though not quite
one foot tall...
cherry blossoms
1821
horses follow horses
on their way...
cherry blossoms
1821
stealthily
those have turned pale blue...
cherry blossoms
1821
over there's
the dog's toilet...
mountain cherry blossoms
1821
sticking to
my bean curd soup...
cherry blossoms
1821
without regret
they fall and scatter...
cherry blossoms
1821
in yellow roses
shading his eyes to gaze...
a weasel
1821
yellow roses--
used to the hot spring's steam
they bloom
1821
in the short night
crossing bridges en masse...
Kyoto pilgrimage
1821
summer heat--
today, all day
the playful clouds
1821
hot day--
a heap of horseshoes
a heap of straw sandals
1821
hot day--
the gloomy rear
of a row house
1821
a man could almost
turn wild boar...
the heat
1821
wild boar-like
gazing upon it...
the heat
1821
even in Paradise
they must long for it...
cool breeze
1821
cool breeze--
through the window
Pure Land Paradise!
1821
cool air--
one tatami mat spreads
in my house
1821
cool air--
with a pipe in his mouth
on Hiuchi Hill
1821
cool air--
all my copper coins
in a metal washtub
1821
cool air--
ladling coins
with a ladle
1821
cool air--
the age of the gods
wasn't better
1821
evening cool--
my umbrella-hat left
at the last inn
1821
the morning glories
have strong karma...
June rain
1821
in June rain
behind me too...
a blind woman from Echigo
1821
June rain--
gold and silver fish
rejoicing
1821
June rain--
I hit my shoulders
with the bamboo fire-stoker
1821
June rain--
not incense
not a fart
1821
June rain--
time for tobacco
and tinderbox
1821
in the anteroom
hair tweezers I borrowed...
June rain
1821
the Emperor's smoke
is rising...
June rain
1821
just for fun
into the hot tub I go...
June rain
1821
what a face
this frog is making!
June rain
1821
out of tobacco
I smoke butterbur leaves...
June rain
1821
twice today
an afternoon "bath"--
June rain
1821
sharing my parched beans
with a pigeon...
June rain
1821
just now
how many cloudbursts?
the mountain in back
1821
in a secluded house
it's sleep-time...
little downpour
1821
waiting for the cloudburst
to sweep my gate...
evening
1821
even the weeds
get a cloudburst
just for them
1821
showing off
with a cloudburst...
god of the mountain
1821
the cloudburst
makes people seethe...
with arguments
1821
a cloudburst
slapping my feet...
sound asleep
1821
even the cloudbursts
hate it...
rice field by my gate
1821
at the tail end
of the cloudburst crowing...
rooftop rooster
1821
puffed-up fools
talking about cloudbursts...
across the land
1821
the cloudburst
retraces its steps...
favoring the village
1821
the cloudburst showing
favoritism...
mountain by the village
1821
standing dead center
in the downpour...
a blind man
1821
rainstorm--
on a red sleeping mat
a red flower
1821
summer cloudbursts--
instigators of big
arguments!
1821
rainstorm--
outside the hairdresser's
a potted pine
1821
rainstorm--
on this lawn, that lawn
just a cup's worth
1821
a cloudburst--
setting up a dinner tray
on the verandah
1821
rainstorm--
atop the sleeping mat
wildflowers
1821
washing my laundry
with my clothes on...
summer rain
1821
rain clouds--
just to kill time
billowing
1821
forming billows
as well as the others...
little cloud
1821
for the general
the lawn his bench...
billowing clouds
1821
a traveler
sneaks into our midst...
billowing clouds
1821
though small
they line up too...
peaks of clouds
1821
beginning--
from seven a.m. onward
clouds are billowing
1821
mountain country--
and above, too
peaks of clouds
1821
if it's a bow
its string is pulled taut...
summer field
1821
after today
it's your turn to dry up...
green rice field
1821
praising Buddha too
with her samisen...
festival
1821
shining in the dawn
a rich VIP...
Buddha amid birthday flowers
1821
horseflies' and bees'
big lucky day...
Buddha's birthday flowers
1821
the ants rush
to make a road...
Buddha's birthday flowers
1821
even a frog
is offered a sip...
Buddha's birthday tea
1821
wanting to give
birthday Buddha a lick...
little child
1821
on the tip
of birthday Buddha's finger
setting moon
1821
for pure white flowers
Fourth Month, Eighth Day
has arrived!
1821
a spider descends
in vain...
Buddha's birthday flowers
1821
mountain temple--
the butterfly sips
Buddha's tea water
1821
like wise men do
I go into seclusion...
heart of summer
1821
age of the gods!
atop Mount Fuji too
an inn
1821
"Come this way!"
the horsefly guides
Mount Fuji's pilgrims
1821
in one morning
I climb around ten...
Mount Fujis
1821
cool air--
I can straddle it
this Mount Fuji!
1821
the frogs become
talkative...
evening's shrine boats
1821
with the child
the cat, too, goes slow...
shrine boats
1821
floating to play
with a bamboo grass boat...
Shinto shrine
1821
an insect too
quickly shakes a bell...
purification ritual
1821
with grave seriousness
frogs line up too...
evening's purification
1821
the wind rustles
truthfulness...
river shrine boats
1821
rousting his skinny fleas
the cat too...
evening's purification
1821
rubbing even
the hairless head...
purification hoop
1821
purification hoop--
we'd go through hand-in-hand
if I had a child
1821
two butterflies
pass through together...
purification hoop
1821
with a shrug
the little purification doll
floats away
1821
the little purification doll
flies in the gust...
its body so light!
1821
little purification doll--
setting sail on a boat
of bamboo grass
1821
bundled
with wildflowers too...
rice dumplings
1821
dangling from
the little boy's neck...
a rice dumpling
1821
the kitten unwraps it
with clever paws...
rice dumpling
1821
festival--
cormorants asleep in a row
on holiday
1821
baby comorant cries--
his mother, calling back
returns to the gate
1821
today--
even in thick smoke
cormorants make their living
1821
looking back, back
to her crying children
cormorant departs
1821
after praying for rain
the result...
a flood!
1821
today too
today too...
cheating clouds
1821
I let the buck
carry my notebook...
new summer robe
1821
skillful hands
skillful mouths...
new summer robes
1821
vain mankind!
so soon tired
of new summer robes
1821
about three people
per block...
summer robes
1821
in no time
filled with sleep wrinkles...
my summer kimono
1821
in celebratory light blue
kimonos...
morning pilgrimage
1821
with his chin propped
on his abacus...
siesta
1821
a naughty child
joins the adults...
siesta
1821
they huff and puff
up the hill...
paper fans flitting
1821
treasured child--
once again show you're tough
with the samurai's fan
1821
fanning his back sores
from burning wormwood...
Edo paper fan
1821
stepping over
the smudge pot to enter...
my hut
1821
emerging from
the smudge pot smoke...
tea cakes
1821
straw mat marks
on my butt...
a cool breeze
1821
giving up
waiting for cool air...
the little boy sleeps
1821
the mountain I saw from Edo
is now here...
a cool breeze
1821
the blacksmith basks
in the cool air...
night work
1821
others toil in the evening
not the hermit...
cool air at the gate
1821
my treasured companion
for the cool air...
now, dew on the grass
1821
skillful hands
skillful mouths...
cool air at the gate
1821
mountain shade--
while enjoying the cool air
straw sandals, teahouse
1821
talking about this mountain
and that...
cool air at the gate
1821
Ryogoku Bridge--
even in this moment of cool air
a lost child sign
1821
one horsefly
on the horse's belly
cooling off
1821
touched by
the hot spring's steam...
planting rice
1821
Shinano road--
atop the mountain, too
rice planters' umbrella-hats
1821
world of man--
even atop a mountain
rice planters singing
1821
garden hill--
for planting barnyard grass
a trendy song
1821
just his voice
"Water for sale!"
is cooling
1821
evening shadows
new wheat boiled with rice...
bamboo fence
1821
being hugged
by a worldly fellow...
fawn
1821
don't run away
you potato thief!
little fawn
1821
sharing
his mother's pillow...
wounded deer
1821
a loud voice--
the hated crow's feathers
fall off
1821
by all means
stay inside the fence!
molting bird
1821
the baby bird's eyes
riveted on mother...
molting
1821
a family affair--
parents and baby birds
molting
1821
placing trust
in the human goblin's fence...
molting bird
1821
taking flight
with a pheasant of Hino...
molting bird
1821
parents and children
in sweet harmony...
molting birds
1821
the morning moon
is straight overhead...
"Cuckoo!"
1821
just now
back from its Edo tour...
cuckoo
1821
in heavy rain
seething with resentment
cuckoo
1821
why does the monkey
plug his ears
cuckoo?
1821
a bathhouse boy's
snake-eye parasol...
"Cuckoo!"
1821
breezing past
the paper lantern...
a cuckoo
1821
a stupid quarrel!
the cuckoo hurries
away
1821
morning's first voice
"To Edo! To Edo!"
cuckoo
1821
once again
singing us humans to sleep...
cuckoo
1821
looking askance
at the great lord's fortress...
cuckoo
1821
that voice of yours
too shrill!
cuckoo
1821
don't get your nose pinched
by the mountain hermit!
cuckoo
1821
trying to beat
Mount Asama's pilgrims...
cuckoo
1821
on a mountain
of golden flowers in bloom
a cuckoo
1821
even you, mountain cuckoo
visit me!
back window
1821
a mountain cuckoo singing--
if I could only
sleep!
1821
"In these wilds
there's a hot spring!"
mountain cuckoo
1821
my home village
beneath that cloud...
mountain cuckoo
1821
on the mountain temple's
coal grinder too...
mountain cuckoo
1821
bush warbler
you're growing old...
but what a voice!
1821
though growing old
the bush warbler's
a bush warbler!
1821
reed warbler
were you born
mouth first?
1821
"You're a lot of fools
wearing skullcaps!"
evening moorhen
1821
with skin peeled off
snake
are you cool now?
1821
at Tanigumi Temple
a snake leaves an offering...
sheer skin
1821
from the treetop
taking a piss...
green frog
1821
sweeping them off
the horse's back...
fireflies
1821
taking stock
of canes and clogs...
firefly
1821
the firefly
on the horse's back
swish! swept away
1821
pinned by the puppy
then set free...
firefly
1821
getting lost in the dark
with me...
firefly
1821
secluded house--
a firefly
resort
1821
a firefly
on the head of a priest...
unaware
1821
up my sleeve
not on purpose...
a firefly
1821
first firefly
how many nights did you sleep
in Buddha's flowers?
1821
from my pillow
to the soles of my feet
fireflies
1821
in this world
becoming an escape artist...
firefly
1821
exploring
with mosquito larvae...
a cherry leaf
1821
mosquito larvae
dance in memoriam...
the tomb's puddle
1821
a mosquito larva
plays alone...
lacquered tub
1821
peeking at
the mosquito larvae dance...
little butterfly
1821
mosquito larvae too
do a festival dance...
oh! hey!
1821
a good evening--
the mosquito larvae too
enjoy the coolness
1821
mosquito swarms--
from the dog's butt
and head
1821
voices whining
escaping torture by fire...
mosquitos
1821
from the hanging bell
they come clamoring...
mosquitos
1821
dying without ever
tasting a person...
mountain mosquito
1821
one mosquito
I know is deaf...
here again?
1821
the afternoon mosquito
pricks my other hand...
comparison shopping
1821
men of leisure--
"Mosquitoes have come!"
they say
1821
chasing the fly swarm
with his mouth...
dog at the gate
1821
rain has stopped--
come on, climb aboard
umbrella-hat flies
1821
even the old cow
has a fly-whisking
tail
1821
the old hand
swats a fly
already gone
1821
want to go see
Suma with me?
umbrella-hat flies
1821
gaping mouthed
and fly-hungry...
dog at the gate
1821
my clean-shaven head--
the flies
stomp on it
1821
summer's first fly
crawls along reluctantly...
tatami mat
1821
temple fly mimic--
hands
praying beads
1821
first fly--
being a guest for him
the green tatami mat
1821
after the fly swarm
escapes, swat!
my wrinkled hand
1821
don't swat the fly!
rubbing hands
rubbing feet
1821
trudging along
enduring his fleas...
country cat
1821
the cat's fleas pit-a-pat
jump back on...
evening falls
1821
are the fleas
and flies doing OK...
back home?
1821
in the lake
heading for the mountain...
the flea swims
1821
my home--
next door to a thicket
of fleas
1821
are you watching
the puppy's dream?
cicada singing at night
1821
chirring as he climbs
cicada on the lacquered
post
1821
so many cicadas
so many raindrops from the eaves!
great temple hall
1821
temple in the thicket--
even at night, now and then
cicada song
1821
some sing all night
some eat knotweed...
a matter of taste
1821
verandah flower--
making a skillful turn
a snail
1821
the snail does just
as he pleases...
curled asleep
1821
having a siesta
on Gensei's fence...
a snail
1821
little snail, no different
asleep
awake
1821
straw fence--
coming down skillfully
a snail
1821
coming out
to a hot world, earthworm's
prosperity
1821
blooming bindweed
has crept to the top...
straw sandal pile
1821
fixing red ink
on the clean copy...
a poppy
1821
acting stuck-up
the Chinese peony blooms...
Zen temple
1821
in my ramshackle hut
she holds her head high...
the peony
1821
in the pitiful garden
no pitiful
peonies!
1821
why did the blooming
pink break?
oh why?
1821
in something's shadow
slyly blooming...
little pink
1821
so lightly
on the duckweed
the frog's picnic
1821
duckweed--
even blooming in a bucket
wind-rustled
1821
Sir Mouse
nimbly, nimbly crosses
the duckweed
1821
wheat husking--
in the middle of the highway
a bright moon
1821
in holy Jizo's
lap, eyes, nose...
blooming moss
1821
undented
by the cat's nap...
moss blossoms
1821
even the roof's moss
blooms
then scatters
1821
house's ridge-pole--
the crow flings down
moss blossoms
1821
evening shadows--
even the poorly growing
moss has bloomed
1821
the old priest
picks off the dust...
moss blossoms
1821
blocking the light
of the back window...
this year's bamboo
1821
the young bamboo's
peak of youth, too
soon passes
1821
scratching the face
of a bamboo shoot...
cat's shadow
1821
kindly guarding
the bamboo shoots...
holy Jizo
1821
upside-down buckets
stand in a row...
fresh green leaves
1821
charcoal cinders
dry on the eaves...
fresh new leaves
1821
a man of leisure
lazily sprawls...
shadow of new leaves
1821
cat on the fence
bucket on the eaves...
fresh green leaves
1821
fresh new leaves--
the cat and the crow
quarrel
1821
the fresh new leaves
happy and well...
Muen Temple
1821
the holy man
grabs a siesta...
grove of summer trees
1821
rain shower--
the grave's sacred branches, too
are summer trees
1821
making straw sandals
while selling them...
deep tree shade
1821
deutzia blossoms
light up
my cotton-padded lap
1821
deutzia blossoms
on all four corners...
farmhouse at dusk
1821
deutzia blossoms
on all four corners...
headman's house at dusk
1821
deutzia in bloom
the children make
mud-dumplings
1821
sprinkled into
great Edo...
red plums
1821
fondled and squeezed
Edo's plums
blush red
1821
the little tub's fish
announce...
"It's autumn's first morning!"
1821
moon at the gate--
as the heat dwindles
so do companions
1821
chilly air
or truly cold air--
if you're old...
1821
in morning's cold
wiping even the head
of the stone
1821
morning cold--
a wipe of the cleaning rag
for the gate's stone
1821
morning cold--
bloated with tea, visiting
seven temples
1821
the lantern
is stone cold...
a cold night
1821
till now not escaping
the mosquito's torment...
a cold night
1821
for a healthy
vegetable patch...
a cold night
1821
the weak mosquito
whines to amuse...
a cold night
1821
even holy Jizo
bewitches people...
autumn dusk
1821
autumn evening--
a sound to split trees even
evening cloth-pounding
1821
autumn evening--
even for beggar-town
festival guests
1821
bidding farewell
to autumn with drums...
festival
1821
are you saying
goodbye to autumn?
shrine's pigeon
1821
autumn passes--
so many hardships
it brought
1821
autumn passes--
a big cloth sack
of sponge gourd rinds
1821
autumn passes--
the crooked shape
of field turnips
1821
haul some night water
to my rice field...
Milky Way!
1821
the half-asleep crow
raises a ruckus...
Milky Way
1821
Fukagawa--
an oyster shell mountain
and autumn's moon
1821
remote village--
the Bon Festival moon
postponed
1821
the paper door
gets a scrubbing...
Bon Festival moon
1821
roasting sorghum
till it's charred...
Bon Festival moon
1821
"tomorrow night
the harvest moon!"
old man's promise
1821
eyes straining
a dog also joins
the moon-gazers
1821
not swatting horseflies
not swatting bees...
moon-gazing
1821
atop a handy
rice cake tub...
moon-gazing
1821
this here mountain
will have to do...
tonight's moon
1821
top notch
this moon tonight...
top notch!
1821
going out to celebrate
the harvest moon...
practically three-footed!
1821
harvest moon--
you also seek the peace
of the Beyond
1821
picking a seat
not best or worst...
moon-gazing
1821
a hand towel
draped over my head...
moon-gazing
1821
after a second piss
right away...
moon-gazing
1821
taking a seat
on the pine's branch...
moon-gazing
1821
on the pine tree's
tippy-top...
moon-gazing
1821
the harvest moon
deigns to appear...
speedily
1821
harvest moon--
plum and cherry tree
blossoms return!
1821
harvest moon-gazing
priests, samurai
merchants
1821
harvest moon--
dwellers on little pine islands
gaze too
1821
harvest moon--
digging in the teacup
for sake money
1821
harvest moon--
the peddler selling
eight-penny sake
1821
harvest moon--
some are stretched out
some praying
1821
firewood piles
one... two...
Ninth Month moon
1821
the morning glories bloom
a second time!
Ninth Month moon
1821
the moon's face
just about 13
give or take
1821
tongue-tied
the crow flies along...
autumn rain
1821
in autumn wind
staggering breathlessly...
mountain pass
1821
a sumo wrestler
makes it blow...
autumn wind
1821
onlookers
at a funeral...
the autumn wind
1821
morning dew--
washing my face
adding a bug
1821
not dyed pink
with sunrise colors...
beads of dew
1821
potato leaf dew--
after spilling a mark
perfectly round
1821
potato leaf--
I make a pearl
of dew
1821
helping out
the growing chrysanthemum...
dewdrop by dewdrop
1821
helping dewdrops
pass on to the Beyond...
grassy shade
1821
even for silver dewdrops
gibberish
rolling down
1821
with the silver dew
flowing along
mountain town
1821
a busy evening--
dewdrops climbing
dewdrops falling
1821
autumn's first day--
at a shrine in a field
hand-washing with dew
1821
dewdrops forming--
now we truly
have a hedge!
1821
dewdrop pearls--
a setting of ten
not enough
1821
the life of dewdrops--
little bald
Buddhist priests
1821
the life of dewdrops--
essentially
a sermon
1821
gathering dewdrops--
each one the life
of a daughter
1821
rain shower--
its dewdrop pearls
are counterfeit!
1821
hey dewdrops--
don't tease
the foolish vine!
1821
from leaf to leaf
tumbling down...
autumn dew
1821
the human goblins
bow their heads...
dew dripping down
1821
no human kindness
for the dwarf bamboo...
dew from Heaven
1821
each perfect ball
two quarts...
lotus blossom dewdrops
1821
how much water
in each round ball?
lotus blossom dewdrops
1821
good luck god--
dewdrops are transformed
into pearls
1821
round berries--
ball by ball lined up
with dewdrops
1821
in vain grass
dewdrops forming
in vain
1821
the rain shower left
imitation pearls...
dewdrops
1821
the mountain town
with dewdrops everywhere
flowing
1821
you look too
robber! dewdrops
in the grass
1821
tomorrow, tomorrow
and tomorrow's weather...
Mount Asama fog
1821
Bon lantern viewing
from morning on a ruckus...
Kyoto
1821
dance, my little
dervishes!
sparrows at the gate
1821
if Ishitaro
were still in this world...
Bon Festival dance
1821
after the dance
right away, cutting
the morning grass
1821
without the love
of two parents...
Bon Festival dance
1821
after the dance
right away, grass-cutting
clamor
1821
a bamboo grass boat
floating on the lake...
Tanabata stars
1821
bush clover leaves
and mushrooms lined up...
Tanabata stars
1821
the mulberry grove
shaped like a square...
Tanabata stars
1821
so young
so very young!
husband and wife stars
1821
Land of Gods--
even among Heaven's stars
husband and wife
1821
smiles beaming
on their young faces...
husband and wife stars
1821
beaten down
by Mount Suwa's wind?
plume grass
1821
even with broken
plume-grass chopsticks...
festival meal
1821
beards of plume grass, too
rustle, rustle
divinely
1821
at Misayama
even a horse celebrates...
plume grass
1821
Misayama--
today, all day
blooming plume grass
1821
Misayama--
even for a farmhouse
maiden flowers
1821
Misayama--
regaling a hunting hut
maiden flowers
1821
Misayama--
their sight alone cools the air...
plume grass chopsticks
1821
harvest gift--
a bottle stuffed
with wildflowers
1821
harvest gift--
on the scale a beard
of millet
1821
better than
amateur fireworks...
tufted grasses
1821
river boat--
on a night of fireworks
still selling fireworks
1821
an arm for a pillow
fireworks boom!
ka-boom!
1821
boom! boom! ka-boom!
so many duds...
fireworks
1821
in morning cold
a temple festival...
priests' sumo match
1821
even for the beggar--
a favorite
sumo wrestler
1821
moonlight--
even the sumo amateur
has fans
1821
his wife watched
the match...
defeated wrestler
1821
in a woodblock print
for sale...
defeated wrestler
1821
he ties his horse
to the pine...
a sumo match
1821
burning rubbish--
a scarecrow too
goes up in smoke
1821
wind-bent in moonlight
the scarecrow leans
on a cane
1821
since last year
still standing...
scarecrow
1821
across the land
calm and happy-go-lucky...
scarecrows
1821
children perform
the "opening of eyes"...
for the scarecrow
1821
the village dog
suddenly disapproves...
the scarecrow
1821
packing away the scarecrow
grandpa pays
his respects
1821
in a fine spot
for moon-gazing...
scarecrow
1821
looking younger than me
the scarecrow casts
his shadow
1821
rice paddy drains--
goodbye! goodbye!
back to the well
1821
on the hearth
tea cakes in a row...
evening cloth-pounding
1821
Kyoto people
even beat straw mats!
evening cloth-pounding
1821
a clear blue sky
at high noon...
pounding cloth
1821
at one house
and at the neighbor's...
evening cloth-pounding
1821
tea cakes jumping
on the hanging shelf...
cloth-pounding
1821
while chanting
praise to Buddha!
pounding cloth
1821
my house--
in front and in back
a cloth-pounding cacophony
1821
the hairy burdock
dug up...
by my companion
1821
at Shimejino
yanking up a "Shi"-shaped
burdock
1821
secluded house--
a nice pile of
this year's rice
1821
just enough
of the new rice crop
for a meal
1821
at the dinner tray
of new rice they sit...
my ancestors
1821
giving my earth god's
earth a drink too...
new sake
1821
brewed even
in my secluded house...
new sake
1821
young buck--
you think I'm a suspicious
character!
1821
giving up
the childless deer
calls no more for love
1821
the childless deer, too
can't sleep...
cries in the night
1821
a wind of love
even for the great mountain's
deer!
1821
admirable--
even a deep-mountain buck's
mating call
1821
a shiver--
the deer in flight
now chases me!
1821
Land of the Rising Sun!
even the deep-mountain deer's
mating call
1821
snatched by human goblins--
the shrike's
impaled prey
1821
using a samisen
to make snipe fly...
Itako Village
1821
snipe-hunting lackeys--
none of them
are young
1821
for both snipe
and snipe-hunting lackeys...
evening
1821
another snake
into the hole...
three roommates
1821
mother snake--
leaving the hole
then back in
1821
mother snake--
a farewell to the crow
then down the hole
1821
in this world you're a snake--
enter the hole
toward Buddha's West!
1821
just as you are
become Buddha!
snake in your hole
1821
a hole made by Tokuon's
holy staff...
a snake enters too
1821
"O Fudaraku..."
even a snake enters
the hole of dharma
1821
the old snake
toward the Western Paradise
enters his hole
1821
don't go in, snake!
that's a hole
a cruel man made
1821
the snake enters, too--
the saint's walking stick's
hole
1821
from his hole the snake
glances back...
corrupt world of desire
1821
the snake has had it
with humans too...
entering his hole
1821
in the next life
don't be a snake!
temple grounds
1821
trust in Amida Buddha!
snake inching
into its hole
1821
next year
become a butterfly!
snake in your hole
1821
on one side
the cats' quarrel, on the other
insects sing
1821
"It's cold!"
the insects' complaining
has begun
1821
an upset insect!
his whole body shakes
as he sings
1821
listening to the insect chorus
right after
night's second piss
1821
"The world is better!
better!"
the insect dances too
1821
insects chirp in the night--
what of your mothers?
your fathers?
1821
butterfly and dragonfly
are blown away...
fart bug
1821
coming along
to the Bon Festival...
red dragonfly
1821
the dragonfly
on the deer's head...
a siesta
1821
dragonfly--
flying smack into
the dog's head
1821
under the eaves
the dragonfly checks in...
alone
1821
quickly checking in
for his lonely stay...
a dragonfly
1821
blown away
by the fart bug...
dragonfly
1821
flying into people
kicking them hard...
locusts
1821
katydid--
on his way to being sold
still singing
1821
katydid--
noon and night, nothing
but nagging!
1821
I'm taking a leak
look out! look out!
katydid
1821
in a secret place
basking in the sun...
hermit chrysanthemum
1821
only after the Chrysanthemum Festival
festival
wine
1821
they've bloomed
for the soup stock...
chrysanthemums
1821
in my thatched hut
even the chrysanthemum
needs a cane
1821
carefully measured
by the inchworm...
chrysanthemum
1821
though it's red
it's a morning glory!
morning glory!
1821
filled with floating
morning glories...
the teacup
1821
morning glories--
big blossoms, little blossoms
rustling
1821
morning glories
rustling, rustling
rustling!
1821
faces of morning glories--
their cold and fever
cured
1821
morning glories--
rustling and rustling
their lives away
1821
morning glories--
even in the doorway
damn blooms
1821
well-behaved--
the white morning glory
stuck-up, blooms
1821
how quiet
the light blue morning glory...
such good manners
1821
autumn bush clover--
a few flowers fall
a few new blooms
1821
autumn bush clover--
flowers fell yesterday
already re-blooming
1821
autumn bush clover--
after spilling flowers
many more bloom!
1821
a winnow here
a winnow there...
dishevelled bush clover
1821
bush clover flowers fall--
a tiny bit
at a time
1821
a dog sleeps
on the farmer's winnow...
dishevelled bush clover
1821
so quickly
spattered with mud...
bush clover
1821
stucking up its nose
at Tama River...
dishevelled bush clover
1821
Tama River--
blooming bush clover
buries the mill
1821
kitten, the bush clover
grabbing you!
grabbing you!
1821
kittens--
chasing in bush clover
and being chased
1821
blooming bush clover
you can step over...
all dishevelled
1821
a cat calling
from behind bush clover...
"Meow! Meow!"
1821
by this world's people
also dug up...
arrowroot vines
1821
trying to apply
face powder flower...
little girl
1821
festival time--
face powder flowers
in full bloom
1821
with one bloom
autumn is guaranteed...
cock's comb
1821
in a field
one tremendous cock's comb
growing wild!
1821
hanging from
a bent nail...
a Buddha flower
1821
such is my homeland!
blooming in rice fields
buckwheat
1821
from the well
a Japanese wind blows...
blooming orchids
1821
scent of orchids
in an important province...
moonlit night
1821
scent of orchids--
like a foreign country
the sickle moon
1821
orchid leaves
step aside!
says the blossom
1821
all at once
the field is rustling...
ears of rice
1821
the dog carries some
to the celebration too...
harvested rice
1821
old age--
this year's tobacco too
up in smoke
1821
just a little smoke--
the tobacco
smells young
1821
growing politely
in the vegetable patch...
hot peppers
1821
the kittens
play house
in the plume grass
1821
don't crawl through
fisherman!
blooming reeds
1821
the cotton
the child picked...
all sold
1821
shrine in a field--
not wind-scattered
the first bolls of cotton
1821
plucked fresh
from the garden...
sermon of cotton
1821
even in a rice bowl
this floating world...
cotton bug
1821
pampered cotton
in a man's garden...
happy and plump
1821
cotton fluff scatters--
little thicket, little shrine
little ditch
1821
for the cotton bug's
peak season he comes...
sparrow
1821
cotton bug--
creeping off
to wherever
1821
cotton bug--
naked in the middle
of the road?
1821
cotton bug--
making your escape
between my books
1821
big persimmon--
even when it's crushed
it's puckery
1821
"Ooo puckery!"
the persimmon thief's
laughter
1821
knocked from the persimmon tree
by an arrow...
crow
1821
I too eke out
a living...
rose of Sharon
1821
a horseshoe
to steady its butt...
the gourd
1821
his vow--
a thousand gourds
a thousand men!
1821
growing old--
a sponge gourd for reaching
sponge gourds
1821
two buckets of water--
kitchen maid's
sponge gourd
1821
its water squeezed out
by pretty women...
sponge gourd
1821
sunny spot--
heavenly bamboo berries
in a paper bag
1821
on the cat's head
another clonk!
falling berries
1821
horse chestnuts--
people too
roll here and there
1821
horse chestnut cakes--
goblin children
all in a row
1821
growing old--
tripping and tumbling
on acorns
1821
prancing about
with the acorn...
kitten
1821
acorns--
the children eagerly
do as told
1821
acorns--
wherever they tumble
their destination
1821
a chestnut falls
plop!
at the dog's pillow
1821
in today's world
they're "old man beaters"...
chestnuts
1821
the branch's burrs
fill both hands...
no good, no good
1821
will their bland taste
ever improve?
Tanba chestnuts
1821
big chestnuts--
I'm one of you
with my prickly head
1821
chestnuts dropping--
even the stone Buddha
with umbrella-hat!
1821
the chestnut that hit
my umbrella-hat...
grabbed by the person behind
1821
one chestnut
by paper lantern light...
an uproar
1821
"a chestnut hit
an old man..."
a story told for ages
1821
holding the chestnut ladle
like a natural...
little girl
1821
whover gets chestnuts--
in the palm
of hell's hand
1821
the foolish cat's eyes
return to where it fled...
burred chestnut
1821
pitter-patter
of falling chestnuts...
a rainy night
1821
even Kyoto's
are every bit as good...
Tanba chestnuts
1821
country bumpkin--
they're for you, noble sirs
Tanba chestnuts
1821
growing from the hole
of the wolf...
mouse mushroom
1821
Mount Kuruma--
even the mushrooms
are goblins!
1821
taking a tumble
coming up grasping...
a mushroom
1821
falling on my butt
and under my butt...
a mushroom
1821
she's no good at
mushroom-hunting...
bunch of wildflowers
1821
goblin mushrooms sprout--
the entrance
to a haunted place
1821
don't be bewitched!
the deep red
of that mushroom
1821
crushing the year's
first mushroom...
the laughing child
1821
the first mushroom
flawless comes out...
her sleeve
1821
first mushrooms--
one of them
in the toy box
1821
first mushroom
pulled up root and all...
then another
1821
year's first mushrooms--
my child
plays with one
1821
first mushrooms--
two people finding
just tiny runts
1821
first mushroom--
crushed underfoot
then spotted
1821
first mushrooms--
all that we find
knocked down
1821
matsutake mushrooms--
my useless dog
goes sniffing anyway
1821
in winter cold
I wish it were Eighth Month...
moon in the pine
1821
a stick stabbing
through stone walls...
the cold snap
1821
drawing nearer
to the Pure Land...
life's cold winter
1821
walking along
he's used to the cold...
Shinano road
1821
stitching a hem
in the hot tub...
winter cold
1821
seeming envious
of the elderly...
winter cold
1821
long held back
now it begins...
deep winter cold
1821
after crossing it
now being careful...
ice
1821
no storehouse was ever
built by a non-drinker...
the year ends
1821
not incense
not a fart...
my year ends
1821
from sitting rooms
into hot tubs...
first winter rain
1821
the winter rain
thrashes the gate's tree
again
1821
the winter rain
thrashes the gate's tree
in passing
1821
winter rain--
around Basho's grave
falling down
1821
the winter rain
dumps and dumps...
a crossroads Buddha
1821
time and again
foolishly persistent...
the winter rain
1821
first day of winter
suddenly
a storm
1821
my home village
in an ugly mood...
the winter rain
1821
from south, north
east, west...
winter storms
1821
Buddha's body
accepts it...
winter rain
1821
facing the river--
next door, it seems
Echigo mountains
1821
winter wind--
well at least it's a nice
moonlit night
1821
wearing out
the winter wind...
hackberry tree
1821
winter wind--
crawling across the hanging bridge
minstrel priest
1821
in winter wind
they sharpen swords...
night voices
1821
winter wind--
lining up leaves
in the tobacco box
1821
winter wind--
no fire lit
for the castle guard
1821
lying down
I let the winter wind
pass over
1821
first snow--
and coming down with it
the padded clothes
1821
first snowfall
one, two, three, four
five, six people
1821
first snow--
I see the padded clothes
coming down
1821
in first snowfall
snow clogs crunching...
Zenkô Temple
1821
flitting to the oil lamp
of the pissing place...
powdery snow
1821
snowflakes flitting--
in the whole sky
not a cloud
1821
snowfall--
just when I step outside
it falls
1821
from east, west
south, north...
the blizzard
1821
not entirely
pristine snow now...
hailstones
1821
with a samisen
plectrum sweeping...
hailstones
1821
collect hailstones!
hailstones!
in your hand
1821
on the lamp's cover
hailstones piling up...
night stall
1821
does the cactus
grasp the great truth?
morning frost
1821
frost forming--
such a night
to abandon a child!
1821
night frost--
a ring-ringing in my ears
like cicadas
1821
little monkey--
with the gods all gone
he's running amuck
1821
the god has left
Sumiyoshi's garden...
still they rake it
1821
Mount Nara's gods
gone for the month...
the deer make love
1821
even the dog
gets a souvenir...
winter prayers
1821
the big dog
begs for a souvenir...
winter prayers
1821
Mama's voice too
like a whining cat's...
winter prayers
1821
frost-white flowers
for Basho's festival...
the theme
1821
"It's Basho's Death-Day!"
he says
while walking
1821
Basho's Death Day--
a new monk's
shaved head
1821
Basho's Death-Day--
the fence's sparrows too
form a line
1821
Basho's Death-Day--
pigeons and sparrows
dressed for company
1821
back alley--
a poor sake bottle
for the god of wealth
1821
the young servant
leads the chant...
winter prayers
1821
one penny
for a splashing bath...
cold water
1821
sweeping soot
with careful aim...
at the pilgrim
1821
corner spider
rest easy, my soot-broom
is idle
1821
with a samisen
the Twelfth Month singers...
our Floating World!
1821
thatched hut--
the year's last rice cakes
are bought
1821
waiting for spring
in a house without children
pounding rice cakes
1821
pounding rice cakes
though there's no child
to beg for them
1821
my rice cakes--
just two quarts' worth
but pounded with a song
1821
in my thatched hut
a gala night...
drinking away the year
1821
enshrined in the alcove--
my year's end gift
of sake
1821
the whole evening
walking through the village...
end-of-year gifts
1821
by special request
my paper fan
is exorcised
1821
shrine garden--
even pines are exorcised
of their snow
1821
children feeding it
garden leaves...
the cotton gin
1821
the wolf makes off
with a piece of it...
paper robe
1821
now the same color
as my wrinkled feet...
paper robe
1821
with a little skullcap
not putting on airs...
god of the poor
1821
hanging bridge--
most folks skillfully drag
their snow sleds
1821
passing snow sled--
a letter tossed
from the roof
1821
temple road--
his aged mother rides
the snow sled
1821
front gate--
snow falls, is swept
falls, is swept
1821
front gate--
a child is building
Snow Mountain
1821
sweeping snow--
even off the head
of holy Jizo
1821
Mother
is the frost-guard...
sleeping child
1821
between tofu shop
and tavern...
my winter seclusion
1821
winter seclusion--
on a foul food eating
binge
1821
next door to the
hibernating snake...
a mouse's hole
1821
my sinful dog
at my side...
winter seclusion
1821
sitting Buddha nags
at the brazier...
standing Buddha
1821
same world--
a Buddha at the brazier
a Buddha standing
1821
the mountain's pine wind
reaches
my charcoal fire
1821
having no faith
in broth...
medicinal meat
1821
getting my natto
from atop its bed
of straw
1821
in its straw wrapper
my smoldering
natto
1821
Edo shop--
for the soba porridge
customers in trousers
1821
rustic hut--
"Come and get
your soba porridge!"
1821
the hawk returns it
to the goblin village...
nest-warming bird
1821
sound asleep--
for the horned owl
it's a life
1821
the wren goes west
the mouse
east
1821
tired out from
your long, long journey?
sleeping waterfowl
1821
the waterfowl couple
work hard for a living...
long journey
1821
being picky
not a single fallen leaf...
Tosei Shrine
1821
oak leaves too
mixing in...
falling red leaves
1821
a few red leaves
have come indoors...
to be swept
1821
seasoned with
a few round berries...
red leaves
1821
when a few red leaves
have fallen...
swept up
1821
the withered side-field
in full bloom...
chrysanthemums
1821
killing frost--
the Eastern Sea Road's
front door
1821
grass-killing frost--
a crow whining
like a cat
1821
instead of relying
on the killing frost...
lice-repelling belt
1821
killing frost--
the beauty courtesan
scrapes soot from a kettle
1821
just bad dreams
are my fate...
a crow caws
1821
the saint eats
all his food...
it's a trick
18212
gliding boat--
climbing the mountain
of cloud
1822
a new year--
until the rain-catching stone
dents
1822
a new year--
the same nonsense
piled on nonsense
1822
in a few days
no one talks about it...
New Year's
1822
the second "New Year" comes--
people already
sick of it
1822
the second one comes
already longing for the third...
"New Year's"
1822
the second one
is redundant...
New Year's celebrations
1822
the second one
doesn't satisfy their greed...
New Year's celebrations
1822
at first blush
not a thing wrong with it...
spring's first dawn
1822
even I
have no objection
"Happy New Year!"
1822
all the windows
slid wide open...
Edo's spring
1822
all the skylights
open wide...
Edo's spring
1822
there's even a foolish
bush warbler...
spring window
1822
everywhere I look
a decent spring...
snow at my gate
1822
how far across
this deep snow?
for a decent spring
1822
a decent spring
has arrived, perhaps...
snow at my gate
1822
do your best, Spring
make a decent effort...
snow at the gate
1822
just make it
a proper spring...
snow at my gate
1822
some "proper spring"
this is!
snow at the gate
1822
making it
a decent spring...
snow at my gate
1822
New Year's pine--
all through the big town
evening rain
1822
in a new bucket
the same water...
young and fresh!
1822
shallow river--
calling it New Year's water
improves it
1822
in a flash
quickly the New Year's water
is gone
1822
from one bucket
the year's first cold water
first hot water, first tea
1822
bramble gate--
playing hacky sack
to a handball song
1822
made with sooty paper
the stepchild's kite
easy to spot
1822
rising kite--
a squid is also slender
passing by
1822
clinging to the kite's
string...
the sleeping child
1822
catching the kite's tail
with his mouth...
gargoyle
1822
sunset--
an assembly of kites
in the sky over the town
1822
over yonder is that
Edo's sky?
a kite
1822
spring pony--
the child galloping
so gallantly!
1822
which lid is it?
for today's
lucky New Year's soup
1822
New Year's Day--
curled up in bed
in spare clothes
1822
even while falling down
"Happy New Year!"
picking herbs
1822
the old man's house
is surrounded...
herb pickers
1822
the garden's gate
left unlocked...
picking herbs
1822
Mr. Long-Beard
gives them a scolding...
herb pickers
1822
touched by the hand
of a princess...
New Year's herbs
1822
from the short sword's
hilt hanging...
herbs
1822
letting the child
hold his sword...
picking herbs
1822
looking a bit
more springlike...
moon over the field
1822
a horse in a painting
eating grass...
springtime!
1822
the big road's
snow laid out to dry...
springtime
1822
a game of racing
'round rice field ridges...
it's springtime!
1822
good for walking
wind blows...
this long spring day
1822
long spring day--
working just for fun
the wind blows
1822
a long spring day
with a cold breeze
almost...not bad
1822
a long spring day--
no smoking allowed
in Kogane Plain
1822
long spring day--
a lazybones wrapped
in a coat
1822
the longer the spring day
the longer
the nagging
1822
idleness--
the day is so wastefully
long!
1822
long spring day--
the wage thief
just lazes around
1822
a long spring
and my long laziness...
end today
1822
dusted with snow
how they clamor!
the little brats
1822
the market workers
bare-chested...
spring snow falling
1822
from deep
in the lightning's flash...
spring snow
1822
a polite guest
at tea ceremony...
first spring snow
1822
turning the haystack
to compost...
spring snow
1822
after sweeping
seven times...
first spring snow
1822
until the first bonito
is pickled...
snow in the garden
1822
spring snow--
while it carouses
it falls
1822
Buddha's first
snow of spring...
flitting down
1822
oh foolish frost
when will you be gone?
be gone!
1822
the last of it--
a load of spring
frost
1822
mountain village--
every day, day after day
the last frost
1822
on one side
snow falling, the other
spring rain!
1822
everyone outside
under the umbrella-tree...
spring rain
1822
in spring breeze
his stole billowing...
a monk comes too
1822
spring breeze--
monkey families too
take healing baths
1822
blown forth
by the spring breeze...
pilgrims
1822
in the spring breeze
they're out to watch the women...
women!
1822
spring breeze--
going down to Echigo's
Hongan Temple
1822
spring breeze--
a monk in a stole accompanies
the village elder
1822
blown downhill
by evening's east wind...
gentle slope
1822
east wind--
the dog rests his chin
on the stake
1822
the river's fog
adds to the haze...
moonlit night
1822
spring's first rainbow
and glorious new leaves...
Shinano mountain
1822
even in spring
a snowstorm's thunder...
Shinano mountain
1822
with the dripping
of paper umbrellas...
spring mist
1822
paper umbrellas
dripping...
misty Kyoto
1822
there's So-and-so
in the mist...
field by the gate
1822
in thick spring mist
the burglar
laughing
1822
my home village--
look! spring mist
look! falling snow
1822
at my village
they watch me...
a thin spring mist
1822
the preacher's
hand gestures too...
lost in temple mist
1822
the mist forms
a straight line...
Zenkô Temple
1822
that shape's watching me
watching him...
thin mist
1822
heat shimmers rise--
on the fence
a pouch of tea
1822
at the peak
of the ice's melting it finishes...
sermon
1822
ice melting--
the mountain holy man's
noon sermon
1822
keeping company
with the plum tree--
the gate's last snow
1822
the snow I hated
all at once...
has melted away
1822
riddled with piddle
the last
snow pile
1822
vegetable patch--
from the tobacco break
a snow-melting river
1822
the stray cat
sharpens his nails...
last snow pile
1822
on Amida Buddha's
temple clinging...
leftover snow
1822
lying down
they look like handballs...
spring mountains
1822
snow country--
snow flits down
on spring mountains
1822
damn it's cold
it's damn cold!
spring equinox
1822
on the straw mat
at spring's equinox
shameless lice
1822
even in a field
a line of beggars...
spring equinox
1822
gate's sparrow singing--
until when
a migrating servant?
1822
the servant's hair
made white by migrating...
this year too
1822
the migrating servant's
good health...
his feat
1822
"Time to rest,
migrating servant!"
the sparrow chirps
1822
cleaning muddy tracks
of migrating servants...
hand bucket
1822
the migrating servants
never really saw Edo...
umbrella-hats wave farewell
1822
migrating servants--
in Edo, too
Shinano's umbrella-hats
1822
migrating servants--
kimono sashes tied
with Edo knots
1822
a migrating servant
in Edo grumbles...
wicker trunk and a mat
1822
the migrating servant's
souvenir from Edo...
his good health
1822
migrating servants--
both of them shed
crocodile tears
1822
old men
among the migrating servants...
this year too
1822
the pigeon coos
"Old man, how much longer
a migrating servant?"
1822
night brazier--
New Year's Day
for the migrating servant
1822
not choosy--
the migrating servant's
horsetail
1822
lined up too
among the dolls...
Dharma
1822
giving her dolls
a good talking-to...
the child
1822
she offers a piece
to her doll...
herb cake
1822
picking herbs
in Musashi Plain, dressed
to the nines
1822
fluttering onto
the lacquered umbrella-hat...
tea leaves
1822
granny puts on
her spectacles...
tea picking
1822
crunch! crunch!
a mountain rice field
mixed with snow
1822
plowing as much snow
as earth...
mountain rice field
1822
the big cat
worn out from lovemaking
snores
1822
the big cat
comes yowling for love
falsetto
1822
the lover cat
with a poker face
comes home
1822
the cats are courting
bumping
heads
1822
the lover cat
crisscrosses the village
yowling
1822
sly steps, tiptoe--
the cat, too
a secret Romeo
1822
through five feet of snow
plowing his way...
lover cat
1822
lazy cat--
cocks his ears
then back to sleep
1822
the wild cat too
yowls falsetto...
a sneaky lover
1822
"Give back my child!"
mother sparrow chases
the cat
1822
the bush warbler sings
tensely...
flitting snowflakes
1822
bush warbler--
his face doesn't look
stuck up
1822
a substitute singer
for the bush warbler...
sparrow
1822
hey bush warbler
don't pass without stopping!
my window
1822
the bush warbler
splish-splash, sings
in the shower
1822
the bush warbler sings
after putting on airs
a bit
1822
from the great bronze
Buddha's nose...
a swallow!
1822
a good day
for plowing the rice field...
swallows return!
1822
to honor the swallows arriving
I boil my lucky day
bean-paste
1822
each one
has plenty to say...
swallows
1822
circling now and then
to eye the children...
skylark
1822
come, skylark!
your children's thicket
is on fire!
1822
ripples on water--
beside the larks
a little fishing boat
1822
a wind-blown boat
a skylark
crossing paths
1822
"I won't fall
in the lake!"
brags the evening lark
1822
the wild cat
looks astonished...
a skylark
1822
the evening pheasant
back to sleep
with a great cry
1822
after the big flock
silence...
geese flying north
1822
are you planning
to stay in this province?
goose
1822
don't cry, geese!
our parting one day
was inevitable
1822
what a thing!
in this deluge
the geese depart
1822
straight out of a full moon
painting...
the geese depart
1822
to the rhythm
of the falling snow
the geese depart
1822
traveling geese
go down to make love...
the town of Karuizawa
1822
whether rain falls
or the sky
frogs keep croaking
1822
blindly following
the setting sun...
a frog
1822
on a makeshift bridge
we make friends...
croaking frog
1822
glaring steadily
at the scattering blossoms...
a frog
1822
they praise Buddha too--
frogs on a rock
in a row
1822
praising Buddha
in a row in a rice field...
frogs
1822
riding piggy-back
a butterfly too is a pilgrim...
Zenkô Temple
1822
grabbing my umbrella-hat
I find, asleep...
little butterfly
1822
slipping off
the candy tray...
a little butterfly
1822
a butterfly flits--
an umbrella-hat and kimono
on the rock
1822
suddenly circling
the outdoor sermon...
little butterflies
1822
even the youngest child
urges them on...
silkworms
1822
tired of feeding
on the horse
the horsefly naps
1822
playing dead
on the horse's tail
a meadow horsefly
1822
divine wind--
the horsefly leads
on the mountain road
1822
"Come this way!"
my horsefly guide
through the meadow
1822
leasing a spot
for the beehive...
the post
1822
the beehive dangles
from the Deva King's
wrist
1822
the beehive
hushes up...
a Buddhist sermon
1822
the mountain bees, too
yearn to live there...
town of people
1822
shameless
in my blossom-viewing robe...
lice
1822
grass and vines--
a steady march
toward the bamboo
1822
asleep in new grass
to his formal trousers
it clings
1822
fresh green leaves
sprouting turn out to be...
weeds!
1822
muddy road--
"Come walk on me!"
grass turning green
1822
though straggly
soon they conquer all...
violets
1822
as usual
not quite round...
plum blossom moon
1822
bush warbler parents
and children on duty too...
plum blossoms
1822
plum blossom scent--
deep in a hole, even
the "floating world!"
1822
plum blossoms--
singing Tenjin's sutra
a sparrow
1822
"Praise the unshackled
heavenly gods!"
plum blossoms
1822
plum in bloom--
a green tatami mat
awaits the priest
1822
when plum trees bloom
hot tubs
overflow
1822
the old man
viewing plum blossoms...
a "pickled plum"
1822
little child--
eyes wide as saucers
for plum blossoms
1822
the little boy's writing brush
in his mouth...
plum blossoms
1822
a price tag
dangles from his body...
plum blossoms
1822
even the outhouse
has a guardian god...
plum blossoms
1822
the outhouse door
left unlocked...
plum blossoms
1822
bundled in her coat
a woman goes out too...
plum blossoms
1822
even on the water bucket
the war lord's crest...
plum blossoms
1822
with a yogi's self-denial
it's bloomed...
my gate's plum tree
1822
after the rain
the ground hardens...
glorious blossoms
1822
the world today!
even while blossom viewing
a little thief
1822
a straight line
all the way to Kyoto...
umbrella-hatted blossom viewers
1822
a whole country
of favorite spots...
blossom clouds
1822
all the nondrinkers
seem gloomy...
blossom shade
1822
blossoms scatter--
even the devil
sheds a tear
1822
a wife, a child...
foretelling my fate?
blossoms scatter too
1822
the temple blossoms
without struggle
fall
1822
long journey--
the blossoms, too, have lost weight
on Mount Yoshino
1822
cherry blossoms!
if I were twenty years
younger...
1822
cherry blossoms--
Buddha's karmic wind
awaits you
1822
the blossoming tree
born to a friendly
existence
1822
in this world of blossoms
nobody longs
for Paradise
1822
world of blossoms--
priests, samurai
merchants
1822
blossoms become clouds--
people become
smoke
1822
people clamor--
in the west, in the east
a blossom blizzard
1822
even grandpa wears
a "lost child" sign...
umbrella-hatted blossom viewer
1822
Great Yoshino--
waking up over clouds
of blossoms
1822
each one nibbles
his fried rice...
blossom viewing
1822
on sedge hats
and parasols falling...
cherry blossoms
1822
temple to temple
with no rhythm...
cherry blossoms fall
1822
to the west
cherry blossoms scatter...
Amida's Hongan Temple
1822
granny comes too
led by a cow...
cherry blossoms
1822
down they fall
with no rhythm...
cherry blossoms
1822
lamplight--
hidden in the willow
young voices
1822
though it blocks
my view...
neighbor's willow
1822
around the willow
a floating world...
red blossoms
1822
the big willow
has become the village's
sign
1822
summer evening--
behind my back
an outhouse
1822
short summer night--
foolish flowers, clever flowers
bloom
1822
nowhere to lay
my hands or feet...
summer heat
1822
pear and persimmon pits
tumble in vain...
the heat
1822
my lonely life
made even worse...
summer heat
1822
cool breeze--
Father's umbrella-hat
hangs in the pine
1822
cool breeze--
she eats with an appetite
for two
1822
cool air--
they're native-born villagers
Mr. and Mrs. Pine
1822
cool air
for the penniless man...
moon over a bridge
1822
fellowship in cool air--
wood is wood
metal is metal
1822
kindly blowing
under my umbrella-hat...
midsummer's east wind
1822
from day one
each one standing out...
midsummer skies
1822
the white chrysanthemum
acting stuck-up...
midsummer
1822
in the middle of a field
midsummer theater...
people playing people
1822
people's voices
on Ryogoku Bridge even at night...
midsummer drought
1822
the full moon
is utterly flawless...
midsummer
1822
for actors
in the midsummer play...
no rest
1822
such is our age--
rainy season thunder
but no rain
1822
this village lacks
the spirit of the day...
Rain of the Tiger
1822
not falling
on the insincere village?
Rain of the Tiger
1822
while I watched
two cloudbursts in a row...
that village yonder
1822
left out
of the cloudburst...
the little village
1822
a cloudburst cools
his hot water...
naked bather
1822
come the second cloudburst
people
are griping
1822
cloudbursts--
one after another
again and again!
1822
a cloudburst--
Ryogoku Bridge's
evening look
1822
in that throng
there must be a demon...
billowing clouds
1822
rift in the clouds--
how easily peaks
pop up
1822
setting sun--
today's billowing clouds
utter failures
1822
rice country--
even at night standing tall
billowing clouds
1822
with ease
they reconstruct...
billowing clouds
1822
rushing to put away
the tatami mats...
billowing clouds
1822
plugging the hole
with a pine tree...
billowing clouds
1822
making their entrance
from the lake...
billowing clouds
1822
the rice planter's
sunshade...
billowing cloud
1822
summer mountain--
where are you guiding me
songbird?
1822
at the peak
maybe it's snowing...
pure mountain water
1822
through a village of people
pure water
pure no more
1822
pure mountain water--
people coming and going
muddy it
1822
evening wind--
disease-free
the rice field greens
1822
today floating
down Kamo River...
hollyhocks
1822
very nice--
country-grown hollyhocks
at the festival
1822
butterflies
like celestial maidens...
Buddha amid birthday flowers
1822
year after year
deigning to be born...
Buddha
1822
two or three pennies
complete the scene...
Buddha amid birthday flowers
1822
an outhouse song too
one of my choices...
summer calligraphy
1822
the kitten grasps
its ball...
summer calligraphy stone
1822
"Good Fortune!"
the summer banner
riddled with patches
1822
rice dumpling in bamboo grass--
skillfully the cat
unwraps it
1822
from his long-lobed ear
a gift dangles...
rice dumpling
1822
this land of gods!
medicine rains
from the sky
1822
fall from the sky today!
wrinkle-curing
medicine
1822
the day medicine rains
a stinging bug, too
falls from a tree
1822
on honest heads
medicine rains down
today
1822
the man with his nose
in the air is first...
new summer robe
1822
hungry devil
you, too, look down in shame...
new summer robes
1822
while putting it on
the price is settled...
new summer robe
1822
thatched hut--
like everyone the child changes
to summer clothes
1822
my new summer robe--
though I say I'm sick
of this world
1822
first day of summer's
unnecessary must-have...
new robe
1822
"Rice Paste"
on a round sign board...
new summer robes
1822
past noon
acting on impulse...
a new summer robe
1822
insect hairpins
and hair pieces too...
new summer robes
1822
though you think this flesh
soon will burn...
new summer robe
1822
summer kimonos
the color of blue sky...
morning pilgrimage
1822
holy man--
even while plucking grass
a parasol holder
1822
old priest--
even while plucking grass
a parasol holder
1822
even while plucking
the grass at the gate...
a parasol
1822
the good cat
hides his claws...
summer room
1822
this year there's someone
for nagging...
summer room
1822
dangling a mosquito net
out to dinner
I go
1822
what a pain!
inside the mosquito net
with my little sake cup
1822
"borrowed two quarts
of sake"...
a note in my mosquito net
1822
on the back of an ox
hauling straw...
a siesta
1822
a sneeze
a cover-up...
with her fan
1822
by noon
it's over the desk
smudge pot smoke
1822
samurai street--
methodically he waters
the plants
1822
on a stone
by the drained well...
sacred sake
1822
the well's bottom, too
utterly dry...
moonlit night
1822
calling down--
from deep in the well
an answer
1822
after cleaning the well
putting back the fish...
moon at dusk
1822
the well is drained--
on the grass a frog
croaking
1822
a popular song--
from the bottom of the well
he joins in
1822
rest break--
from the bottom of the well
voices
1822
a traveler
walking along, airing
out his clothes
1822
evening cool--
the great high priest
tells jokes
1822
in today's world
it's half for show...
rice-planting song
1822
even a big toad
boldly joins the fun...
rice-planting sake
1822
taking off his umbrella-hat
a bald priest...
rice-planting song
1822
even worthless me
is invited...
rice-planting sake
1822
the young men wear them
half for show...
rice-planting umbrella-hats
1822
after the rice field's
second weeding...
Zenkô Temple pilgrimage
1822
just looking
at a slab of ice...
is rapture!
1822
it being today
the snow of Shinano...
for sale
1822
bringing it down
down down!
ice for sale
1822
serving fresh-deliverecd
valley ice...
relieved faces
1822
a gift once again
bestowed...
ice in summer
1822
crowd of people
seeing one slab of ice...
such joy!
1822
a penny's worth of
cold water, the horse
drinks too
1822
moonlight--
cool water sold
on Nihon Bridge
1822
cold water--
scooped into a bucket
just water
1822
chilled water stand--
the world feels
like a mountaintop!
1822
country samurai--
his eyes don't see
the drinking water either
1822
sweet water
doled out for free...
Edo town
1822
Mount Ausaka--
from a cow's back
sweet jelly
1822
the grass we sit on
also square-shaped...
sweet jelly
1822
sweet jelly--
from a cow's back
is served
1822
chilled soup--
the guests lined up
shaded by trees
1822
in the old man's
lap and sleeves...
parched wheat flour
1822
parched wheat flour
licked off the tatami mat...
little boy
1822
parched wheat flour--
imitating people the monkey
falls down gagging
1822
quite remarkable--
this vegetarian sushi's
lightness
1822
oblivious
to the hunter's arrows...
a fawn
1822
the fawn
unaware of the arrow
frolics
1822
hearing the holy man's
sermon...
a fawn
1822
growing up
in the thick of chickens...
a fawn
1822
over eight pounds--
don't haul that!
cuckoo
1822
unwilling to back down
even an inch...
cuckoo
1822
don't back down
even an inch!
cuckoo of Great Edo
1822
that's a heavy load
to be hauling!
cuckoo
1822
breaking out in song
on a whim...
cuckoo
1822
don't eat
lying down like that!
cuckoo
1822
what are you eating
to make such a noise!
cuckoo
1822
the cuckoo sings
"Watch out! The sake's
burning!"
1822
does the caged
bush warbler hear?
mountain cuckoo
1822
tree at the gate--
morning to evening
a mountain cuckoo
1822
by common consent
the bush warblers' singing
stops
1822
the bush warbler, too
isn't growing old!
hot springs mountain
1822
noisy reed warbler--
the big river flows
in silence
1822
reed warbler--
what's making you sing
all night long?
1822
hey reed warbler
the whole town's
sound asleep!
1822
moonlight--
one reed warbler
working, singing
1822
so many!
on the shore at a hut of reeds
reed warbleres
1822
the reed warbler too
uses the moonlight...
night work
1822
reed warbler
on a bamboo stalk's
tippy-top
1822
a reed warbler sings--
"The water thief is here!
he's here!"
1822
a pine tree
the snake skin's hanger...
sea of grebes
1822
on old granny's
rake...
a snake's skin
1822
a snake's skin
but I wonder...
does it see me?
1822
a snake's shed skin
beside
the beggar's pillow
1822
snake's skin--
even a snake seeing it
flees
1822
on Buddha's lap
a snake's forsaken
garment
1822
imperial courtier--
he too detours around
the snake's skin
1822
a mosquito
must've bit him...
that toad
1822
locked on me--
the scowl
of the toad
1822
on top
of a sleeping man's butt...
firefly
1822
up to heaven
the mosquito larva flies...
moon at the gate
1822
mosquito larvae--
is it hard to breathe
in the long day?
1822
mosquito larvae--
no pissing allowed!
no pissing!
1822
mosquito larvae--
tonight what a splendid
moon on the moat!
1822
mosquito larvae
wiggle hard as you can...
tomorrow is Bon
1822
praying the mosquitos
won't devour them...
gamblers
1822
coming to lunch
on the sleeping man...
mosquito
1822
green tatami mat--
a fly lands
with a thump
1822
foolish cat--
catching those flies
is your job!
1822
swat! swat!
the escaping fly buzzes
with laughter
1822
fly away quick
quick! don't get swatted!
fly over there
1822
just for fun
the cat catches them...
window's flies
1822
hut's fleas--
even being caught
by a child
1822
on the straw mat
a flea...
pretending to hide
1822
knowing the priest is blind
is that why you stay?
fleas on the mat
1822
pilgrim's flea--
from temple to the valley
it jumps
1822
growing old--
these eyes no good
for flea chasing
1822
hopping flea--
are you sensing
that hiding man?
1822
a new tatami mat--
fleas jumping
bumpity bump!
1822
fleas and lice
having a meeting...
on my back
1822
when fleas come out
flea-killing grasses
bloom
1822
fleas jump
towards people's voices...
river beach
1822
world of man--
even in mountain pine shade
fleas
1822
catching fleas
with purple flowers...
a child
1822
even in lawns
at the edge of town...
fleas jumping
1822
remarkable--
how tree shade spurts
fleas
1822
evening hut--
the fleas jumping
bumpity-bump
1822
pillar at the gate--
have you become all
flying ants?
1822
twice as big
as yesterday...
flying ant swarm
1822
my hut's pillar
today is transformed...
flying ants
1822
unharmed by Tama River's
poison water...
water strider
1822
water strider--
does all that poison water
bother you?
1822
gliding on top
of mountain water too...
water strider
1822
cicadas chirr--
viewed from the mountain
a big sitting room
1822
the soft breeze
from the cicada's voice
wafts
1822
like dribbles
of rain the singing
cicadas
1822
so many cicadas
singing and tumbling off...
umbrella-hat
1822
sweltering heat--
the knotweed-eating bug
in fine mood
1822
where there's knotweed
there's the knotweed-eating
bug
1822
some eat knotweed
some fly into flames...
a matter of taste
1822
all the baby spiders
scatter
to make a living
1822
little snail
facing this way
where to now?
1822
just coming out
the earthworm dragged off
by ants
1822
faintly visible
among moonflowers...
a nightjar
1822
are ants also
going to a festival?
dance flowers
1822
from a branch's tip
a frog cheers them on...
dance-flowers
1822
flowers too
cool under umbrella-hats...
dancing
1822
peonies--
the swords stowed
at the watchman's shack
1822
the lock unlocked
for visitors...
peony garden
1822
lotuses in the pond--
no desire to bloom
golden
1822
house in the country--
when will the lotuses
bloom?
1822
from the rear
of the outcastes' house...
lotus blossoms
1822
lotuses blooming large
even at the house
in the country
1822
blooming lotuses
where sewer water
pours
1822
amid the muck
a lotus defiantly
has bloomed
1822
they even sell
the swamp's lotuses...
leaf and blossom
1822
after feasting on people
the horsefly mounts
the lotus
1822
blooming pinks--
when planted by people
growing thin so fast
1822
the traveler fixes
the farmer's floating
rice stalks
1822
fat and round
the shining moon...
the priest's wheat field
1822
the black ones
sown by a crow...
heads of wheat
1822
ripened wheat--
even the foundation stone
sweats
1822
the thicket's bamboo
imitating his parents
grows crooked
1822
bamboo shoots' substitute--
bamboo
grass
1822
new bamboo grass
all one width...
deep Shinano
1822
bamboo shoots, too
as they grow
grow thinner
1822
bamboo shoots
that become bamboo...
one in ten thousand
1822
growing up together--
bamboo shoots
and baby sparrows
1822
even for bamboo shoots
there's no escape...
floating world
1822
purification font--
a muskmelon
left to cool
1822
Mount Fuji
emerging from clouds...
first eggplant
1822
from one paper fan
to another...
the first eggplant
1822
today too
I don't break it off...
first eggplant
1822
humble hut--
today the first eggplant
if someone gives me one!
1822
amid the garden shrubbery--
eggplant's
protective charm
1822
in my open palms
look!
the first eggplant
1822
raised in a pot
just for show...
the first eggplant
1822
raised with a protective
charm...
the first eggplant
1822
I show it off
to Buddha...
first eggplant
1822
the monk practices
calligraphy
in the shade of new leaves
1822
though spattered
with kicked-up mud...
deutzia in full bloom
1822
deutzia blossoms--
here's a new path
through the hedge
1822
leaving the muddy road
and the blooming deutzia
behind
1822
thorn hedge--
the dog crawls through
like a pro
1822
even the devil bramble
bows low!
Amida's Hongan Temple
1822
poking her nose
into thorny wild roses...
kitten
1822
through the thorny hedge
cleverly...
dog's path
1822
worth a look--
the thorny hedge, too
in full bloom
1822
"Autumn's begun"
just saying it
feels cold
1822
don't blame the wind
don't hate!
first autumn morning
1822
deep in morning's cold
I visit...
Zenkô Temple
1822
the stomped-at mouse
squeaks with laughter...
a cold night
1822
autumn in the hut--
cold day
cold night
1822
the buck's mood
improves...
a cold night
1822
still cold
but only at night...
the mountain behind
1822
winter's frigid peak
draws too near...
a cold night
1822
watching the sky
through a gap between loads...
a cold night
1822
at my window
insects too
a cold night huddle
1822
in the remote village
a tofu seller...
a cold night
1822
paying the price
for my age...
a cold night
1822
I know this wall scribbler's
name...
autumn dusk
1822
friends of mine
scrawled on this wall...
autumn dusk
1822
autumn also
hurries to the west...
Sumida River
1822
bidding autumn
an auspicious farewell...
drums
1822
autumn passes--
the utter regret
of chirring cicadas
1822
mountain shade--
here, too, a festival crowd
under the Milky Way
1822
does my star too
sleep alone?
Milky Way
1822
a Bon Festival moon
but nobody visiting
the graves
1822
a big rain--
this harvest moon night
an ordinary mountain
1822
after cleaning the big well
and the little well...
moon-gazing
1822
it's become a top-notch
harvest moon!
rain-drenched grass
1822
on harvest moon night
in bush clover and plume grass...
rain gazing
1822
on harvest moon night
surpassing the moon...
mountain rain
1822
harvest moon night--
instead of the moon
leaking rain
1822
on harvest moon night
greeting the moon...
with snores
1822
harvest moon--
still looking like a newborn
garden's pine
1822
harvest moon--
in a little pine island's
little nook
1822
the harvest moon
over mountain and river...
while I sleep
1822
no sign of weakness
in the autumn wind...
mosquito
1822
sharpening the blades
of grass...
autumn wind
1822
blades of grass, too
stab people...
autumn wind
1822
a black butterfly
also flits by...
autumn wind
1822
a finger pointing
to the west...
autumn wind
1822
so many castaway
snail shells!
autumn wind
1822
potato leaf dewdrop--
plenty
for the tea bottle
1822
it's how it is--
there are bent dewdrops
long dewdrops
1822
so pretty!
congratulations!
just pearls of dew
1822
on the back window
dewdrops scatter
loudly
1822
though there's dew
at the gate...
no Buddhist insight
1822
who just now became
a bodhisattva of rice?
dewdrops
1822
from a tail-dragging
cool spell...
evening dew
1822
hidden road--
even above our heads
dewdrops forming
1822
the child unaware
of the silver dewdrops
a Buddha
1822
even on the rice field
workers...
dewdrops form
1822
turning to pearls
inciting greed...
dewdrops in grass
1822
turning to pearls
dewdrops inspire insight...
Mount Arima
1822
beads of dew--
not one of them
broken
1822
the life of a dewdrop
rolling, rolling...
a struggle
1822
a place for dewdrops
to live their lives...
thatched hut
1822
splashing onto
the neighbors...
potato dewdrops
1822
spoiled by
the kitten's frolics...
potato dewdrops
1822
on the flower vendor's
flowers...
pearls of dew
1822
is my hut an eye-sore
among your pearls?
dewy grass?
1822
lightning flash--
no way to hide
the wrinkles
1822
lightning flash--
in the field
a hot tub bather
1822
lightning flash--
a seaside man's
grave mound
1822
fog clearing...
at my feet
is Buddha!
1822
cloud and fog--
under my sleeves
they pass
1822
from people's mouths, too
clouds of fog...
Hokkaido
1822
from people's mouths, too
cold fog...
Hokkaido
1822
choking on the fog
blowing in...
on horseback
1822
mountain temple--
in Buddha's lap fog
rising
1822
autumn mountain--
on a rainless day
a gale
1822
after merriment
in the moonlight...
a grave visit
1822
at times I use it
to find my shoes...
lantern for the dead
1822
two back-alley homes
share it...
lantern for the dead
1822
if you come and look
at this farmhouse...
a tall Bon lantern
1822
even grass and vines
don't part willingly...
lantern for the dead
1822
night work lit
by a lantern for the dead...
Kyoto
1822
the shoes guarded
by the temple's lantern...
for the dead
1822
a child in the Bon dance--
everyone else
white-haired
1822
evening Bon dance--
my hut's umbrella-hat
is invited
1822
the crybaby dances
with Mother...
moon at the gate
1822
my life--
I'd join the Bon dance
if my parents were here
1822
in sixty years
not one night spent
dancing
1822
cool air of Tanabata Night
coats the bamboo
with dew
1822
Tanabata stars--
a cooling breeze
on Mount Kajima
1822
Tanabata Night--
in the field maiden flowers
and boy flowers
1822
the star poem
written on his arm...
is licked
1822
mid-river
they cool themselves...
husband and wife stars
1822
as an added treat
cool wind blows...
bedroom of stars
1822
don't cry, insects--
lovers part
even among the stars
1822
moonlight--
even the mountain's plume grass
has a festival!
1822
an old god
old plume grass...
a famous site
1822
ripe plume grass--
did the wind blowing you
come from Lake Suwa?
1822
his figure intertwined
with bindweed...
scarecrow
1822
the puppy passes by
to admire it...
bird clapper
1822
this blessing
not allowed in Paradise...
new sake
1822
Hachibei's face
cracks into a smile...
new sake
1822
cedar needles dangle
like a lure...
raw sake
1822
from rice field
to my kettle...
raw sake
1822
mountain village--
cedar needles advertising
raw sake
1822
tied to the young
buck's antler...
a letter
1822
they cry to each other
across a river
deer in love
1822
barking--
in a village without dogs
cries of deer
1822
the shrike hurling
threats
at the persimmon thief
1822
a shrike sings
"From now on, no meat
no fish!"
1822
well over
one hundred birds...
quail
1822
seeing off
a big gang in the sky...
rice field geese
1822
how prudent!
the geese post guards
awake, asleep
1822
getting used
to all the scoldings...
migrating birds
1822
the copycat sparrows
fly along...
migrating birds
1822
what business brings you
back the wrong way?
migrating bird
1822
poor imitators
of the migrating birds...
sparrows
1822
still not in your hole
even now?
water snake
1822
even the stone-hard camphor tree
devoured
by insects
1822
voices of insects, too--
night work
ruckus
1822
in a peaceful world
a mad frolic...
insects singing!
1822
still singing the insect
is swept away...
floating branch
1822
don't sing, insects!
observe a period
of silence
1822
the insects outside
are grumbling too...
house in the trees
1822
a cicada
cools it down...
shade of the house
1822
buzzing and teasing
the horse's ear...
dragonfly
1822
the horse's nose
gives him a sniff...
dragonfly
1822
dragonfly--
like what people use
in their looms
1822
flying in formation
right through the town...
red dragonflies
1822
wildflowers
trampled thanks
to the mushrooms!
1822
wildflowers--
in the depths of the dew
the bell tolls
1822
big chrysanthemum--
in my walking stick's shadow
it blooms
1822
it too becomes food
in the secluded house...
chrysanthemum
1822
chrysanthemum garden--
I bow my head
"To the left! the left!"
1822
"Come this way!"
a chrysanthemum stands
in the doorway
1822
"This way, pass through
pass through!"
the gate's chrysanthemum
1822
"This way to the inside,
pass through!"
gate's chrysanthemum
1822
"Pass through this way!"
standing in the gate
a chrysanthemum
1822
nondrinkers
stay out!
gate to the chrysanthemums
1822
letting the samurai
hold the sake dipper...
chrysanthemums
1822
it's also
a white capped mountain...
chrysanthemum
1822
don't hit your head
on the gate!
chrysanthemum garden
1822
for my defeated chrysanthemum
a second hard look...
all alone
1822
mountain village--
even in the pissing place
a chrysanthemum!
1822
blooming alongside
devil bramble...
a maiden flower
1822
a bit hidden
by the pine tree...
maiden flowers
1822
ivy dangles
in my rice bowl...
mountain home
1822
a poor old keg
of salt...
ivy-covered house
1822
my fence--
the floating world's arrowroot
in full bloom
1822
what luck
falling into a thicket...
yam's new sprout
1822
making the box
shake a bit...
yam's new sprout
1822
garnishing the wildflower
bouquet...
ears of rice
1822
the children load up
the dog...
ears of rice
1822
the traveler clips some
in the thicket...
ears of rice
1822
is half of it
human sweat?
rice field dew
1822
adding to my hut's
thatch, a smidgen
of plume grass
1822
taking turns
down the little waterfall...
red leaves
1822
a broken bowl also
floats downstream...
Tachida River
1822
cooling the back
of the valley stream...
evening's red leaves
1822
the rubbish heap's
extra topping...
red leaves
1822
the puppy sprawling
for a nap...
a fallen leaf
1822
paulownia tree--
in the unfallen leaf
lives a bug
1822
the paulownia leaf
becomes my holder...
for prayer beads
1822
happily serving
as a prayer bead holder...
fallen leaf
1822
because it has
no wormholes...
one leaf falls
1822
in the mud
after the flood, one rose
of Sharon
1822
evening gloom--
berries for people are
Mount Sadness
1822
evening gloom--
berries on umbrella-hats
a Mount Sadness
1822
the world today!
even for mountain chestnuts
a night watchman
1822
turning hollow
on the rear wall...
mountain chestnuts
1822
an indomitable soul--
a chestnut husk
a false tooth
1822
roasted chestnuts--
without fail my neighbor's
tea cakes
1822
some trees become
roasted chestnuts...
Buddhist temple
1822
chestnuts roasting
won't waft there...
the hated direction
1822
boiled chestnuts--
sleepy guests
leave the sitting room
1822
boiled chestnuts--
at the night watchman's shack
a sudden guest
1822
watching the sea
sitting on the lawn...
roasted mushrooms
1822
Emma, judge of hell,
have a bite of laughing
mushrooms!
1822
mushroom hunting--
the woman
is victorious
1822
mushroom hunt--
into my own pit
I fall
1822
my guide
really sucks at this...
mushroom mountain
1822
the chicken
scratches up
a mushroom
1822
eating rice gruel
like a know-it-all...
winter solstice
1822
lamp goes cold--
the deep winter cold
begins
1822
time to stop
chirring, katydids...
cold winter rain
1822
the road to Paradise
draws nearer...
winter cold
1822
down to the bone
bitter cold...
a little lantern
1822
buying from the vendor
through the cat's door...
it's cold!
1822
an apology to send--
my ink-stone's
thick ice
1822
upon writing a note
of apology, ice
in my ink-stone
1822
so pretty--
the oil freezing
in the lamp
1822
in Matsukage
over an icy wall...
the moon
1822
the child uses it
as spectacles...
sheet of ice
1822
mountain temple--
with a pull-saw cutting
icicles
1822
backstreet--
on the year's last day
a lover cat
1822
a winnowing basket
the child's hat...
first winter rain
1822
winter wind--
one two three four
five fields
1822
winter wind--
the deserted hut
wrapped in reeds
1822
winter wind--
tens of thousands of birds
cursing!
1822
in the year's
first snowstorm a treasure!
the piss-pot
1822
first snowfall--
in a splendid mood
Sir Crow
1822
first snowfall--
I'm so lucky the tavern's
next door
1822
"First snowfall!"
I say but then
go to sleep
1822
"First snowfall!"
I say...
"Let's go to bed"
1822
first snowfall--
everyone in the world
is saying it
1822
the dog
makes way for me...
snowy road
1822
thunder sends snow
flitting down...
mountain home
1822
children eat snow
soaking
in the hot spring
1822
after cooling
the hot bath with snow...
calling her child
1822
the sumo wrestler
makes way for me...
snowy field
1822
travelers--
umbrella-hats topped
with snow
1822
beggars talking
under a bridge...
a beggarly snow
1822
mountain village--
plugging up the bath
snow at the gate
1822
he adds
to his registration...
"Snow Country"
1822
snowy field--
the path through it
bends wildly
1822
frosty night--
ringing a bell for the lost child
'round a corner
1822
from today on
may my medicine work!
welcoming the gods
1822
gorging himself
on the temple's gruel...
sparrow
1822
after licking the temple's gruel
talking
sparrows
1822
the stepchild traces
letters in ashes...
winter practice
1822
for my winter voice drills
chanting praises
to Buddha!
1822
for my winter voice drills
"Praise Buddha!"...
insomnia
1822
winter voice drill--
are "A" Group and "B" Group
having a battle?
1822
winter voice drills
in the beggar's little hut...
little girl
1822
trailing behind
the dog barks along...
winter prayers
1822
the dog I step on
growls...
winter prayers
1822
shabby village--
a poor turnout
for winter prayers
1822
an "I'm deaf" sign
hangs from his neck...
winter prayers
1822
not a gate
without late-night snacks...
winter prayers
1822
the good seat
given to a monkey...
hearth fire
1822
from a straw basket
the cat's face...
by the hearth
1822
growing old--
by the hearth's light
piecework
1822
Hida mountains--
at sunset lying
by the hearth
1822
in the seat of honor
a tea cake...
my winter hearth
1822
soot sweeping--
Buddha's face too
gets a smack
1822
soot sweeping--
I do it
with a doll
1822
Twelfth Month singers--
don't forget
my house in the trees!
1822
tree shade--
an old man pounds rice cakes
alone
1822
old granny teaches
her secret...
rice cakes perfectly round
1822
with the old pine
the two of us...
forgetting the year
1822
my child takes a tumble
on purpose...
the year's last day
1822
after this night
a new year dawns!
children
1822
demon expelled
beans all swept...
now I sit
1822
on a restless journey
by a brazier, a year
older
1822
the cat at my
dinner tray too...
a year older
1822
enough gathered
just for one...
firewood for the new year
1822
even for paper robe
wearers...
fashion trends
1822
an indomitable spirit
suits paper robes...
they say
1822
on the head
of the sacred bamboo...
winter skullcap
1822
trying the red socks
on his hands...
the child
1822
my big toes
stick out, such well-worn
toe socks!
1822
so old--
even covering myself with a quilt
"Heave ho!"
1822
tucked in a little quilt
in vines, asleep...
scarecrow
1822
while sick
I wear it on my head...
winter quilt
1822
hanging an "I'm out"
sign on my door...
winter quilt
1822
holy Jizo
is my scapegoat...
snowballs
1822
right behind
the outhouse...
my winter retreat
1822
back to back--
the outhouse
and my winter retreat
1822
a story to heal
the sword wound...
winter seclusion
1822
buying from the vendor
through the cat's door...
winter seclusion
1822
the slander parties
begin...
winter seclusion
1822
with a brazier
I've named Benkei...
living our life
1822
to badmouth it
say it's bad at dying...
evening brazier
1822
what song is that?
drumming on
the brazier's rim
1822
for vain mankind
a brazier burns...
Matsuhozaki beach
1822
enter the bath
enter the brazier blanket...
hard work
1822
my parents
hugged it this way, once...
hot water bottle
1822
moving and moving
then back where it started...
foot-warmer
1822
the priest who lost
the lottery won't give it up...
hot water bottle
1822
my love life--
all night long
with my foot-warmer
1822
the child lays it
on his head...
foot warmer
1822
by the charcoal fire
after the moon has set
a crow caws
1822
they even cut charcoal
with a saw!
life in Kyoto
1822
weighing charcoal--
one measure buys
peace of mind
1822
a hard choice--
round charcoal, nuggets
or white
1822
for the old priest
breaking charcoal...
a feat
1822
a bulbul-bird bustles
around inspecting...
vegetables hung to dry
1822
even snake sushi
is given a try...
medicinal meat
1822
even the cat
lines up for his share...
medicinal meat
1822
my life alone--
just for medicinal meat
a trip to Kyoto
1822
thin wall--
from the mouse's hole
a wren!
1822
sleeping waterfowl--
yet not at all
not alert
1822
all worn out
from some journey?
sleeping waterfowl
1822
the waterfowl
lives on the sly...
little garden
1822
snow country--
dirt floor's little corner
a leek garden
1822
an insect cage
dangles from the eaves...
winter trees
1822
mountain temple monks
making tofu...
winter trees
1822
in ceremonial robe
he rakes leaves...
the god's mountain
1822
killing frost--
a lice-repelling belt
on the watchman's hut
1822
killing frost--
the deer's bowl
upside-down
1822
the merchant
tells lies about it...
Hokkaido
1822
making the wind blow
in Hokkaido...
city of Edo
1822
if you go there
you'll see demons...
Hokkaido
1822
by itself
my head bows...
Mount Kamiji
1823
a new year--
an Edo born and bred
black pine
1823
plum trees will bloom
but first the New Year's
edicts
1823
by First Month's
second day, second day...
lazy again
1823
for New Year's
he's decorated his little shop...
gatekeeper
1823
even pissing
should be done with care...
spring's first dawn
1823
even the snow falls
graciously...
spring's first dawn
1823
the samurai street
perfectly silent
spring's first dawn
1823
spring begins--
more foolishness
for this fool
1823
an expensive sword
in a bundle...
New Year's altar
1823
an expensive sword
in a bundle...
New Year's altar
1823
in First Month
even a gruel of greens
a celebration
1823
there's so little
I do it in my head...
New Year's inventory
1823
even Mount Fuji
makes the list...
New Year's inventory
1823
hidden in shadows
a laughing mouse...
New Year's inventory
1823
her New Year's present
laid on her head...
little child
1823
clamoring for New Year's
gifts, children
and grandchildren
1823
spread out
alongside the pestle
the new almanac
1823
which lucky direction
for drinking sake?
the new almanac
1823
must be
for some other place...
the new almanac
1823
while grasping
mama's breast...
the year's first laughter
1823
a beggar receives
alms, the year's first
laughter
1823
the cat steals
a New Year's nap...
sitting room
1823
the bush warbler
sings along...
year's first song
1823
even the lap-baby
joins in...
year's first song
1823
year's first water--
even a floating straw
they call "lucky!"
1823
bean-scattering man
bean-scattering woman...
both alone
1823
stepchild--
the kite covered with patches
is his
1823
like in the beginning
just one helping...
rice cake soup
1823
imitating others
hardening their teeth...
tofu for me
1823
from the bag
onto the bag...
bottle of spiced sake
1823
spiced sake bag--
I hang it
in the potted pine
1823
in the house
pounding the seven herbs...
late riser
1823
meal of seven herbs--
from night clothes
a face pops out
1823
pounding the seven herbs--
my next door neighbor
in sync
1823
year's first birdsong--
and not a foolish
crow!
1823
the bush warbler sings
despite it all...
winter lingers
1823
"Fair weather by equinox,"
they say...
but it's cold!
1823
spring peace--
he sows his seeds
over snow
1823
a long spring day--
not incense
not a fart
1823
a chicken strolls
through the sitting room...
a long spring day
1823
the light spring snow
melts alongside it...
snow in the thicket
1823
on a road
overgrown with grass...
spring snow again
1823
into the red dish
flitting down...
spring snow
1823
a melting escort
for snow in the thicket...
spring snow
1823
big frost--
after eighty-eight nights
of spring!
1823
on the white blanket
of snow...
spring rain
1823
even in a mountain village
a public bath is ready...
spring rain
1823
spring breeze--
even a samurai is blown
down the slope
1823
wearing brocade
he walks in the night...
hazy moon
1823
Shinano road--
spring mist
and snow falling
1823
sky-blue umbrellas
in the mist too...
gentle slope
1823
the great bronze Buddha
cloaked
in red mist
1823
heat shimmers--
from the hut's garden
Mount Tsukuba
1823
heat shimmers--
in front of the noodle shop
a chopstick mountain
1823
the gate's melting snow
forms the word
"rice!"
1823
one push
is all red leaves...
river of melting snow
1823
fixing the unevenness
in the rice-seedling bed...
evening rain
1823
snow falls
instead of blossoms...
Buddha's Death-Day
1823
temple town--
for the dog, too
an equinox dumpling
1823
migrating servants
crossing the mountain see...
Kyoto's sky
1823
the child becomes
a migrating servant...
parents are parents
1823
becoming a man
this migrating servant...
a little child
1823
again on the lips
of the migrating servant...
"Granny!"
1823
a hundred miles to Edo
and his new job...
the child servant
1823
with traveling umbrella-hats
migrating servants sing...
Edo hillside
1823
migrating servants gone--
not even mustard
is left
1823
litter in the wake
of migrating servants...
fluttering
1823
after migrating servants--
tossing away
soup stock
1823
migrating servants
gaze down at Edo...
Usui mountains
1823
migrating servants--
just ten
on the rugged mountain
1823
migrating servants--
the hike in prices
has begun
1823
migrating servant--
in a room in the inn
cries for mama
1823
migrating servant--
without permission
a pilgrimage to Ise
1823
to the doll's shelf
he comes crapping...
sparrow
1823
leaving just enough room
for a man to walk...
plowing the rice field
1823
plowing the field
listening to
the sermon
1823
the plowman lets me
cross his field...
temple pilgrimage
1823
mountain man--
off to plow his field
five, six miles away
1823
on a rainy night
banished from the house
lover cat
1823
not a peek
at hell's mirror?
lover cat
1823
mother cat
steals for her kittens...
run faster!
1823
from the human race
for her kittens' sake...
mother cat steals
1823
at your house
the sparrow, too
makes a home
1823
sharing the food
in the cat's dish...
baby sparrow
1823
in and out
of prison it goes...
baby sparrow
1823
the bush warbler's secret--
the rubbish heap
is a luxury
1823
the bush warbler's voice
sounds young...
pure water over moss
1823
is it a golden vine
you've found?
pheasant's cry
1823
daybreak--
in a rooster-less village
a pheasant's cry
1823
drinking Edo's water
at last...
returning geese
1823
pale blue butterflies
pale blue skullcaps
fill the world
1823
sitting room
from one corner to another...
little butterfly
1823
caged bird--
watching the butterfly
with envy
1823
dessert tray--
from my chopstick's tip
a little butterfly flies
1823
meadow butterfly--
what are you sulking about
all day long?
1823
the butterfly flits
when baby crawls
when baby crawls
1823
one butterfly
apart from the crowd...
are you sulking?
1823
from the rubbish mountain
taking off...
little butterfly
1823
hot tub--
from head to head flitting
little butterfly
1823
my home village--
picking baby grass
off the rooftops
1823
for the budding trees' spring
a little bird
gushes song
1823
plum blossoms--
gleaming from the hands
the rubbed Buddha
1823
hereabouts
are we still in Edo?
plum blossoms
1823
even while pooping
he reads his almanac...
plum blossoms
1823
the distant mountain's
blossoms cast their light...
back window
1823
ready to fall
for baby's first cry...
blossoms and coins
1823
the man climbs
for a view of Edo...
blossoming mountains
1823
clouds of blossoms
below me...
waking up
1823
sky-blue parasols
one by one...
blossom clouds
1823
cherry blossoms--
the pretty women of Kyoto
cheeks wrapped in scarves
1823
cherry blossoms--
in yonder field
pooping and pissing
1823
straw sandals stomp
on fallen blossoms...
they snore
1823
wearing umbrella-hats
they enter the blossom
clouds
1823
we watch
with New Year's eyes...
cherry blossoms
1823
at a village called
Mountain Monkey...
cherry blossoms
1823
at the good place
they show a kneecap!
drooping willow
1823
when night falls
prostitutes tug at sleeves...
willow tree
1823
though Sixth Month
it's strangely cold...
a time-tolling bell
1823
Sixth Month--
fish in the market
with rounder heads
1823
Sixth Month--
just for the old folks
a bright moon
1823
at the far edge
of a hot summer sky...
burning wood for charcoal
1823
from blades of grass
a hot wind blows...
sitting room
1823
reflected
off the flooded river...
the heat
1823
cool air--
a price tag attached
to the teahouse
1823
in cool air
waving his braided umbrella-hat...
my companion
1823
even the cool breeze
doesn't feel right...
a crow caws
1823
cool breeze--
from Buddha's direction
blowing a blessing
1823
"I'm not boasting
about my coolness"...
evening tree shade
1823
cool air--
passing through the best
castle gate
1823
cool air--
at the verandah's edge
a hand-washing river
1823
cool air--
wherever you live
it's Mount Fuji!
1823
cool air--
brother-in-law resting
under the pine
1823
cool air--
the sound of well water
drawn at night
1823
from the morning glory's
blossom
midsummer begins
1823
for rain too
a midsummer rest...
little theater
1823
how many more days
of midsummer rest?
evening rain
1823
for the bush warbler
there's no break...
midsummer heat
1823
this rain
a greeting card from heaven...
midsummer heat
1823
is the wind
on summer vacation?
grassy field
1823
from today on
the rain's summer vacation...
midsummer heat
1823
deciding not
to venture outside...
midsummer heat
1823
soaking in a hot tub
midsummer's heat forgotten...
sitting room
1823
rainstorm--
beating a song
on the old keg
1823
a rainstorm--
running to the castle
village headman and sergeant
1823
rainstorm--
using an old keg
for a pillow
1823
rainstorm--
in his straw raincoat
snoring loud
1823
clinging to a twig
a frog cheers...
billowing clouds
1823
in the noodle shop
a mountain of chopsticks...
mountain of cloud
1823
did my feathered fan
summon you?
billowing clouds
1823
in evening calm
roasting seaweed to salt...
billowing clouds
1823
the child snores
the mother pounds straw...
summer moon
1823
her child tucked in
she washes his clothes...
summer moon
1823
summer mountain--
bush warbler, pheasant
and cuckoo!
1823
mountain village--
pure water
husks the rice
1823
the green rice field's dew
my side dish...
drinking alone
1823
same color
as the clear blue sky...
parasol
1823
making mountain
water husk the rice...
midday nap
1823
a white fan--
the sound of wind
sounds new!
1823
the general cools off
his horse...
white paper fan
1823
also left hanging
in the pine...
the farmer's paper fan
1823
shielding a wrinkled
face...
paper fan of Edo
1823
wind blowing
paper fans rustling
rustling
1823
the orphan
makes his from scratch...
wastepaper fan
1823
in my hand
the same paper fan
now feels heavy
1823
knowing the bell's
deep meaning...
evening cool
1823
at the gate
scattering hot water...
evening cool
1823
chilled soup--
not just in tree shade
but on a stone!
1823
chilled soup--
a thatched hut filled
with holy men
1823
unaware
the tree is cursed...
mountain cuckoo
1823
inspecting the fence
thoroughly...
mountain cuckoo
1823
listlessly he guards
over folly...
the toad
1823
blown off by a snort
of the red horse...
firefly
1823
Ishiwara--
a firefly pushing through
the hot bath
1823
blown away
by the horse's fart...
firefly
1823
now hating war
more than ever...
fireflies
1823
calling fireflies--
the firefly stays
behind my back
1823
three times
around the main temple...
flitting firefly
1823
temple in the thicket--
from Amida Buddha's lap
fireflies
1823
night falls
for the firefly flower...
pollen
1823
settling again
on the sake cup I hold...
tiger moth
1823
sleeping atop
the big chrysanthemum...
a caterpillar
1823
big caterpillar--
into the ants' hell
it has fallen
1823
big caterpillar--
have you come to compare
our white hair?
1823
in cool air
it dangles and sways...
caterpillar
1823
down there
is the ants' hell!
creeping caterpillar
1823
drawing close
to the charming lady...
a caterpillar
1823
don't be startled
when the musket fires...
caterpillar
1823
the pesky mosquito
on a return visit...
dawn
1823
pesky mosquitos
come enjoy your feast...
my shins
1823
a pesky mosquito
though raised
in Kyoto
1823
back at dawn
for a return visit...
whining mosquito
1823
glaring with hate
at the mosquito swarm...
Great Horned Master
1823
he can't wait for me
to finish my bath...
mosquito
1823
the sliding door's
decorative pattern...
fly shit
1823
where there's people
there's flies
and Buddhas
1823
a parting gift
for the house guest...
flies at the gate
1823
three flies
on his earlobes...
at rest
1823
swarming flies
how do my wrinkled hands
taste?
1823
taking a siesta
with the farmer...
a snail
1823
the crow
has snatched it away...
cooling melon
1823
deutzia blossoms
in full bloom
and a real snowstorm!
1823
even wild roses
of a downtrodden land
reach enlightenment
1823
a chilly wind
a chilly autumn...
Year of the Dragon
1823
while a child
is laughing...
autumn dusk
1823
I wish I had
my companion to nag...
autumn dusk
1823
the only one to nag now
is the wall...
autumn dusk
1823
no moon tomorrow
in this famous site...
evening rain
1823
if only she were here
for nagging...
tonight's moon!
1823
night of the 15th--
good rain shower
good moon
1823
on harvest moon night
rain gazing...
plume grass, maiden flowers
1823
harvest moon--
the famous mountain
just a fingertip
1823
a rainstorm--
but on the 15th
of Eighth Month!
1823
autumn wind--
weakens the fan
weakens the hand
1823
autumn wind--
the former sumo wrestler
a begging priest
1823
through the paper door's
pull hole...
autumn wind
1823
are they really
beads of sweat?
rice plant dewdrops
1823
mountain rice paddy--
though drying and cracking
pearls of dew
1823
from the wild dog's
howling too, rising
fog
1823
mountain temple--
from the gables rising
fog
1823
tomorrow I'll be
an ancestor at the altar...
Bon Festival
1823
horse-shaped melons
and ancestors
worshipped together
1823
evening sake--
my Bon present
from me to me
1823
food and drink--
my Bon present today
for myself
1823
I'm a poor man
so it's poor...
Bon present
1823
to look at harvested
rice a sin...
visiting graves
1823
the old dog
leads the way...
visiting graves
1823
laughing politely
while tea is served...
Buddha
1823
even the temple tea
makes her laugh...
little girl
1823
reception tea
today
in 88 temples
1823
the temple tea
nothing to boast about...
evening tree shade
1823
temple tea--
the cat is served
too
1823
temple tea--
trusting the reputation
of the garden pine
1823
shaded by trees
food offerings
for hungry ghosts
1823
ladling more tea
from the hungry ghost altar...
a maiden
1823
attracted by offerings
for hungry ghosts...
pigeons, sparrows
1823
looking on, holy Jizo
lines up too...
dance for the dead
1823
hidden in trees--
trying to sleep but hearing
the Bon dancers
1823
the portable shrine
a bit crude...
Bon Festival dance
1823
on Tanabata Night
no one at home
in the hut
1823
Tanabata night--
even in beggar-town
star-gazing boats
1823
hereabouts
also celebrating Tanabata...
rice blossoms
1823
new hot tub--
the Tanabata stars
come tomorrow
1823
even among the stars
lovers must part!
must part!
1823
celebration--
which stars are the children?
grandchildren?
1823
the young star
this year, once again
greets his wife
1823
if only she were here
for nagging...
mum festival sake
1823
sumo champion--
he won't even step
on a bug
1823
from the pines
frogs watch, too...
sumo match
1823
sumo match--
from trees the frogs, too
cheer
1823
it's my life's autumn
but the moon
looks flawless
1823
deep-mountain deer
also stray off the path
to love
1823
Kasuga Field--
with the god's permission
deer make love
1823
on the pine
where Yoshitsune sat...
a shrike calls
1823
to left and right
dropping all at once...
thousands of birds
1823
do you want to sing
in the lamp too?
blue insect
1823
have you come
to save us haiku poets?
red dragonfly
1823
continuing the song
of the katydid...
a baby cries
1823
roof of the house--
sown by the birds
wildflowers
1823
the world today!
for one chrysanthemum
a gold coin
1823
atop the big chrysanthemum
asleep...
caterpillar
1823
in my thatched hut
profit grows...
chrysanthemum
1823
neck and neck
with the war lord...
chrysanthemum
1823
morning glories--
people's faces seem
thrown together
1823
bending back
to face the big rain...
maiden flower
1823
through the window
of a braided hat...
bush clover blooms
1823
blooming looseleaf--
though unrelated grows
toward the grave
1823
even piss
turns to pearls...
field of yams
1823
divine wind--
the rice in the field
five, six feet tall
1823
divine wind!
rice ears in the field
rustling
1823
red hot peppers
in the end, at last
turn blue
1823
mountain shade--
a secluded village's
hot peppers
1823
at the gate
one blade of sumo grass
standing tall
1823
ashamed--
a sponge gourd for reaching
sponge gourds
1823
opening my mouth
with love...
chocolate vine fruit
1823
chestnuts in the pot---
come, people
with spring in your step!
1823
evening passes--
the house's post crackles
as cold enters
1823
remains of the tree's
sacred rope fluttering...
winter cold
1823
thatched hut--
children pay for the chill
of parents
1823
rice farmer--
even on a tatami mat
still cold
1823
my hand towel
twisted as I left it...
frozen
1823
a wind-chime's
empty babble ends
the year
1823
nothing to look
forward to, still...
my year ends
1823
she learns how to
boil water...
first winter rain
1823
even the sparrows
are quarreling--
steady winter rain
1823
big winter storms
little winter storms...
great lords, lesser lords
1823
a nail pounding
into sacred wood...
winter rain
1823
busting up
the sparrow circle...
a winter storm
1823
Priest Doshin's
straw sandals pit-a-pat...
steady winter rain
1823
she learns how
to cook tofu...
night of winter rain
1823
a winter storm
overruns the man...
homeward bound
1823
a man emerges
from the roof of a boat...
a winter storm
1823
mountain temple--
on bean-parching day
steady winter rain
1823
the wedding singers
hit their peak...
night of winter rain
1823
in winter wind
he's cutting loose...
the night guard
1823
in winter wind
one streamer...
cotton-padded clothes
1823
winter wind--
found on a cold bridge
my lost braided hat
1823
winter wind--
wrapping sardines
in oak leaves
1823
first snow falling
I trust in his hand...
bridge by the gate
1823
first snowfall
yet he stays indoors...
the idiot!
1823
into the hot tub
the first snow
lightly flitting
1823
ramshackle hut--
on a snowy morning
lice-hunting
1823
a big snow--
the voices of people
trapped inside
1823
snow sent falling
into my palms...
hot bath crossbeam
1823
a bride without
a go-between...
snow falling in sunshine
1823
leading granny
clinging to my arm...
snowy path
1823
after my hot bath
returning barefoot...
over snow
1823
snowflakes flitting--
a splendid
moonlit night
1823
snow falling
without due warning...
turning about
1823
snow falling--
while indoors soot
dribbles down
1823
falling snow--
the sound of snowshoes
chomp! chomp!
1823
snow falling--
begging ducks too
visit the shrine
1823
snow falling--
irises in the eaves
all shriveled
1823
snowed-in door--
"Push to open!"
I yell from my bed
1823
snowy day--
now and then the fly
goes out to play
1823
no one
brushes off the snow...
pack horse
1823
to the rhythm
of snow sweeping
touring Kyoto
1823
piling up
on the morning market's fire pan...
hailstones
1823
frosty night--
scratching the window, crying
banished cat
1823
young buck--
while the gods are away
sleeping and carousing
1823
rice field to rice field
cutting straight through...
winter prayers
1823
at Old Basho's grave
the two of us...
first winter rain
1823
swarming Fukugawa
on Basho's Death Day...
pilgrims
1823
great Edo--
even for the crossroads watchdog
god of wealth Festival
1823
money god Daikoku
sits alongside
the god of wealth
1823
from the shadow
of food offerings
the god of wealth peeks out
1823
kabuki showcase--
only glimpsed
behind a big man
1823
kabuki showcase--
a man's head
blocks my view
1823
after soot-sweeping
quickly they're lit...
red candles
1823
sweeping soot--
in the east a red
dawn sky
1823
the swept soot
has made it black...
tatami mat
1823
like everyone
in my hut, too, night work...
sweeping soot
1823
the world today!
in the beggar-town
gifts of new clothes
1823
from a little nook
the cat returns...
a gift of new clothes
1823
on the year's last night
a new face for the cat...
devil's mask
1823
mountain village--
a little girl, too
in a lady's cotton veil
1823
though in Buddha's presence
just a simple cloth
skullcap
1823
trying on a skullcap
it doesn't hide...
my white hair
1823
sitting room--
a crow drops
a snowball
1823
with her hairpin
she blocks softly...
the snowball
1823
jumping aside
the crow just laughs...
snowball
1823
turning 'round
it's a grown woman!
snowball
1823
a snowball hit!
holy Jizo's
cheek
1823
only halfway forced
isolation...
my winter seclusion
1823
my earthen sake
jug and teapot appear...
winter brazier
1823
eyeing the war lord
from my toasty warm
brazier
1823
a owl laughs too
at his wig...
Mount Kamiji
1823
avoiding driftwood
like a pro...
sleeping waterfowl
1823
waterfowl--
parents and a child
together, asleep
1823
snow country--
in the hearth's corner
a leek garden
1823
killing frost--
a lice-repelling belt
on the door
1823
this tree will become
prayer beads...
Dômyô Temple
1823
though in the Latter Days
wood becomes prayer beads...
Domei Temple
1823
very soon now
a field of golden flowers
mountain-born
1824
a full round
of New Year's greetings
at the inn
1824
maybe this quake
will put the world right...
year's first day
1824
First Month--
the fool's half door
an eyesore
1824
Land of the Rising Sun!
money makes money...
the emperor's spring
1824
in the clear blue sky
not a blemish...
prosperous spring
1824
spring beings--
a mountain of rice
from one pine
1824
toward the mouth
of the paper puppy too...
my New Year's walk
1824
with wooden clogs
a walk through the field...
New Year's pilgrimage
1824
sticking incense sticks
in the snow...
New Year's lucky direction
1824
paving stone--
gathered up greedily
my New Year's pine
1824
in shadows
a "Happy New Year!"
walking in straw sandals
1824
while taking
my morning piss...
"Happy New Year!"
1824
even for the dog
they toss a New Year's gift...
Buddhist temple
1824
leaving a New Year's gift
for the fox god Inari...
hole in the ground
1824
dropping off New Year's gifts
as I go...
no one's home
1824
New Year's gifts--
I toss one to the swindler
cat
1824
New Year's presents--
tossing to the cat
with empty hand
1824
New Year's present--
the nursing baby reaches
with little hands
1824
foolish cat
in the New Year's gift winnowing basket
sound asleep
1824
making the rounds
as a New Year's gift...
paper fan
1824
dry wall--
written with a needle
the new almanac
1824
paper wall--
written with a nail
the new almanac
1824
old wall--
the new almanac
faces the brazier
1824
the year's first dream
they sold me...
a cold night
1824
in the year's first dream
the cat also sees Fuji...
I bet
1824
year's first dream--
Mount Fuji is sold
in Kyoto
1824
his year's first dream
made public on the mat...
sleep talking
1824
snow sled--
matching little straw raincoats
for New Year's
1824
little child
draws the year's first water...
again and again!
1824
the year's first water
looks wonderful!
Sumida River
1824
this New Year's water
stains the teeth...
olden times
1824
the year's first water
in an earthen teapot...
Sumida River
1824
the red kite
in a drag-behind
kind of mood
1824
kites of Edo
from morning on, heads
shaking, shaking
1824
an Edo kite
joins the others...
mountain home
1824
as good as the rest--
one-penny kite
in the sky
1824
the pilgrim
while receiving alms
kite flying
1824
the feudal lords'
Kasumi-ga-Seki...
a kite
1824
the stepchild's kite--
various patches
appear
1824
leaving Edo
they grow wrinkly...
New Year's herbs
1824
the sword-bearer
bears this too...
New Years herbs
1824
the stylish woman falls
leaving her butt print...
picking herbs
1824
two or three leaves
atop the tobacco...
herbs
1824
around three leaves
then calling it quits...
picking herbs
1824
from the short sword's
hilt dangling...
herbs
1824
a smattering of lanterns
here and there...
the year's first crow
1824
covered by the big snow
yet standing...
New Year's flower
1824
though small
the shrine's welcomers...
New Year's flowers
1824
blooming atop
the book box...
a New Year's flower
1824
in Second Month
the New Year's grass
at last
1824
mountain after mountain
looking springlike...
at last!
1824
spring day--
I spend it just watching
the rain
1824
the great temple's
smoking ban...
spring rain
1824
on a beggar's hut
riches fall...
spring rain
1824
the daffodils
have become flowers!
spring rain
1824
spring breeze--
three ride the same horse
home
1824
on one horse
three riders...
the spring breeze blows
1824
spring's first rainbow
from the wheat field on my left
to the western snowcaps
1824
a good day
for a siesta...
year's first rainbow
1824
well-wishing at the gate--
the faces of hills and fields
laughing
1824
a crossroads temple--
one rice seedling
one vegetable
1824
peaceful sleep--
on the rice-seedling bed
the evening rain
1824
this world today--
migrating servants' teardrops
the rain
1824
a throng from Echigo
singing songs, down the highway
they go
1824
gates of Edo--
migrating servants singing
in Echigo umbrella-hats
1824
a long procession--
migrating servants singing
on the main road
1824
migrating servants--
one of them truly
raining tears
1824
when servants migrate
fresh and new...
moon at the gate
1824
even in a back-alley house
Edo is Edo...
the Doll Festival!
1824
the big cat sleeps
in the same seat...
with the doll
1824
putting on
their lucky day faces...
the dolls
1824
even the widow's doll
is served right away...
great Edo
1824
the dolls on the shelf
neighbors...
to my fart
1824
the old doll
in the junk store window
sunning herself
1824
herb cake--
while one hand
pets the dog
1824
the herb cakes
I put on holy Jizo's lap
then eat
1824
herb cake--
squatting on the lawn
I join the dog
1824
swinging on the swing
clutching
cherry blossoms
1824
the world today--
even while gathering herbs
dressed to the nines
1824
Buddha's tea too
on one straw mat
is spread
1824
mum garden--
one chop of the hoe
five cups of sake
1824
plowing a slope
like a standing board...
mountain becomes farm
1824
with his hoe the farmer
shows the way...
temple pine
1824
farmers plowing--
lying down I watch
Lord Kaga pass
1824
lover cat--
cocks his ears
then back to sleep
1824
take a peek
in hell's mirror!
lover cat
1824
hedge's plum tree--
the cat's prowling route
blooms shut
1824
his prowling route
over the flowers...
a Japanese cat
1824
the lover cat
under the dog's nose
passes by
1824
the lover cat
licking his chops
escapes
1824
the lover cat's
call is answered...
facing the river
1824
cats yowling
separated by a wall--
tragic lovers
1824
all night long
the cat, too
a secret Romeo
1824
a spitting image
of her mother...
kitten
1824
ten kittens
ten
different colors
1824
his fresh-shed antler
his pillow...
the sleeping buck
1824
on the shrine's altar
the buck offers
his antlers
1824
on Buddha's mountain
he sheds them...
the buck's antlers
1824
I open my hut
for birds to make nests
while I'm gone
1824
unaware the tree
is destined for the axe...
nest building
1824
a bird making a nest
a temple being built...
when will they finish?
1824
bird's nest--
within arrow's reach
in the persimmon tree
1824
a bit of fair weather--
little birds call people
to Yoshino
1824
a matter of taste--
the little bird calls
this old man
1824
even to the old man
"Come!" cries
the baby bird
1824
the baby bird chirping
even to the old man
"Come! Come!"
1824
"Come live, live
in the mountains!"
little birds call
1824
the rice pounder's mallet
is his pillow...
baby sparrows
1824
when you hold him kindly
he poops on you...
baby sparrow
1824
help yourself
to the rice in my lap
baby sparrow
1824
he prays to Amida Buddha
a baby sparrow
underfoot
1824
crying his cry
in vain...
the stepchild sparrow
1824
whatever the day brings
the bush warbler's alone
I'm alone
1824
the bush warbler presents
his apprentice...
Kyoto
1824
even the bush warbler
has an apprentice...
sitting room
1824
bush warbler--
even the rascally dog
howls for love
1824
bush warbler--
for the emperor too
the same song
1824
the bush warbler sings
to his children
now and then
1824
bush warbler--
after him his apprentice
sings
1824
bush warbler--
in bamboo the sparrow sings
not conceding
1824
bush warbler--
the cat, tied up
is yowling
1824
bush warbler--
even his shit
gets wrapped in paper
1824
bush warbler--
raised in the mountains
but such a voice!
1824
the war lord's
bush warbler
is an apprentice
1824
now they swoop
straight down...
Mr. and Mrs. Swallow
1824
renting a place
next door to the chickens...
swallows
1824
he's the mouse's
bosom buddy...
a swallow
1824
renting the shop
they set up house...
Mr. and Mrs. Swallow
1824
farewell! farewell!
to the chicken...
the skylark flies away
1824
a pheasant cries--
tucked alongside the thicket
a noodle shop
1824
on the sleeping cow's
belly...
a pheasant cries
1824
if you stay at my hut
you'll need to shut up!
night pheasant
1824
honking while they drink
Edo's water...
returning geese
1824
morning rain--
geese, too, celebrate
their successful return
1824
scrawny goose--
honking at his friends
flying north
1824
from his hole
the snake pokes his head...
the cat slaps it
1824
big snake--
with trepidation coming out
his hole
1824
world of corruption--
Sir Snake slithers
from his hole
1824
a splendid world!
even the snake
leaves his hole
1824
human goblins--
leaving their holes
before the snakes
1824
Iosaki--
on top of the eaves
a croaking frog
1824
being so fat
he's not a good jumper...
frog
1824
father frog
quickly takes the seat
of honor
1824
do you think my lap
is a hermit's?
frog jumps on
1824
bowing his head
in the scattering blossoms...
frog
1824
a frog squats
in his open palm...
a holy man
1824
with a face
like he's contemplating the stars...
a frog
1824
from the shrine's entrance gate
eyeing Edo...
a frog
1824
in the field Buddha's
stone hand, squatting
frog
1824
midday passes--
on holy Jizo's lap
a croaking frog
1824
onto the butterbur leaf
landing upside-down...
a frog
1824
one by one
they take their croaking seats...
frogs
1824
Yoshiwara--
passing time raising a ruckus
frogs
1824
lured by the butterfly
hairpin...
little butterfly
1824
young buck--
shaking off the butterfly
then back to sleep
1824
never growing old
Mr. and Mrs.
Butterfly
1824
a body of dust
lighter than dust...
little butterfly
1824
blocking the bird catcher's
sticky pole...
little butterfly
1824
clinging to the wall
with relief, evening's
little butterfly
1824
loads of butterflies
swarming it...
the dog's bowl
1824
at gate after gate
green hills
of silkworm poop
1824
at an honest man's gate
honeybees
make their home
1824
fleeing the bees
the monkey's restless
eyes
1824
leasing it
to the bees...
leaving my hut
1824
honeybees--
but right next door
hornets
1824
watching the hermit crab
stretching its neck?
bird with no nest
1824
discarding his house
a huge relief...
hermit crab
1824
"No cruel village
for me!"
Mr. Hermit Crab
1824
a quick nap
for the clinging
hermit crab
1824
his quick nap
is just pretend...
hermit crab
1824
coloring the world
lushly, straggly
violets too
1824
breaking a plum branch
"I'm stealing it!"
he yells
1824
plum blossoms--
dried sardines scattered
on the cat's grave
1824
plum blossoms--
outside the outhouse
a sword bearer
1824
plum blossoms--
the child puts a coat
on her doll
1824
from the nape
of the field Buddha's neck...
plum blossoms
1824
the blossoming tree
born with such good
karma
1824
on horseback he cuts
straight through...
blossom viewers
1824
Edo voices--
the blossom viewing ends
in a quarrel
1824
the big cat hides
to piss...
snow on the blossoms
1824
in ceremonial robe
he's fallen down drunk...
blossom shade
1824
if only she were here
for nagging...
blossom viewing mat
1824
ten forecasters
all wrong...
rain on the blossoms
1824
the blossoms are thinking
of falling...
horse dung mound
1824
your name escapes me
old friend...
blossoming mountain
1824
cherry blossoms--
'round a bend in the road
holy Jizo stands
1824
even viewing the cherry blossoms
costs money...
Kyoto
1824
sticking to
her stick of candy...
cherry blossoms
1824
divine wind--
even an evil place, less evil
mountain cherry blossoms
1824
little straw mat--
coins, a little butterfly
and fallen cherry blossoms
1824
the war lord
forced off his horse...
cherry blossoms
1824
bathed in the dust
of people's feet...
cherry blossoms
1824
at an inn called
Mountain Monkey...
cherry blossoms
1824
filling in
for temple flowers...
a willow
1824
trimmed and trimmed
again and again...
willow tree
1824
from the cut branch
a leafy strand...
willow tree
1824
ridge between rice fields--
the horse eats
the sheltering willow
1824
floating it comes--
willow tree
at my gate
1824
on a hot day
summer's last "first thing"...
"Cuckoo!"
1824
hot day--
the silkworms take a break
from their eating
1824
hot day--
a staring contest with
a gargoyle
1824
hot day--
from the fire lookout tower
someone's face
1824
a tall chrysanthemum
in the dead center
of the heat
1824
a solar eclipse
a circle in a washtub...
summer heat
1824
under a full moon
yet still not cool...
the straw mat
1824
a thicket
of sorry red flowers...
the heat
1824
life in a burning house--
but cool air
awakens me
1824
in the cool air
wooden clogs clack...
Zuigan Temple
1824
cool air--
straight from a god's grove
it comes
1824
cool air--
braided umbrella-hat in hand
he leaves
1824
no prayers
for a long reign...
midsummer downpour
1824
letting the cloudburst
sweep the gate...
divorced
1824
soaking feet
in the river at the gate...
summer rain
1824
at Karasaki
an afternoon soaking too...
summer rain
1824
hoe for a pillow
sickle for a pillow...
summer rain
1824
through a hole
you can see the ocean...
billowing clouds
1824
on the mountain's peak
charcoal being made...
billowing clouds
1824
a boat's sail
gradually takes shape...
billowing clouds
1824
how auspicious--
all lined up in a row
billowing clouds
1824
the beggar child
plucks and sings...
summer moon
1824
the great eaves
of the temple's great gate...
summer moon
1824
though overlooked
the rice field grows...
summer moon
1824
at every gate
more and more joy...
summer moon
1824
for the white storehouse
just a drop...
green rice field
1824
festival--
tiger lilies, princess lilies
Hakata lilies
1824
though I can almost
step over it...
Edo's Mount Fuji
1824
Asakusa--
before my breakfast plate
pilgrims climb Mount Fuji
1824
in Asakusa
a dog tags along...
Mount Fuji pilgrims
1824
a free cormorant
also comes to feast...
under the torches
1824
taking care to stretch it
over the head...
new summer robe
1824
his father's
father's father wore it too...
summer robe
1824
the herb cake
is wonderful again!
new summer robe
1824
a wrinkled face
but a splendid new
summer robe!
1824
even for priests
and lay priests...
new summer robes
1824
the cat naps
in a lacquered tray...
summer room
1824
in the house
with no mosquito net
expert snoring
1824
in the house
with no mosquito net
noisy deep sleep
1824
one fly, two flies--
my sleeping mat's become
a place to see
1824
a sunshade
of broken branches...
siesta
1824
even in this far-off
mountain village...
paper fans from Edo
1824
his paper fan
tucked behind...
old man style
1824
covering up
my water for tea...
my fan
1824
clack-clack his cane--
a paper fan
tucked behind
1824
the garden's bamboo, too
swish-swishing...
paper fan
1824
in the pauses
of our pillow talk
fanning
1824
airing out clothes--
the lined-up wooden clogs
of the Buddhas
1824
dousing the bush warbler
with water...
evening cool
1824
back in the house
cooling off again...
moon in the window
1824
father and son's
fart contest...
cool air at the gate
1824
a mountain hot spring
husking the rice...
cool air
1824
rice-planting girl--
on her back a butterfly
sleeps
1824
dangling the length
of the painting...
a strip of gourd
1824
if it falls in summer
snow is weighed...
on scales
1824
like the bats
night's streetwalkers too
make their slow rounds
1824
the bats, too
live in a storehouse...
great Edo!
1824
from the arms
of the Deva Kings
bats dangle
1824
straight for his head
heads
the bat
1824
a bat--
buzzing the ear
of the hooker
1824
a bat
from the nape of the streetwalker's
neck
1824
waking up
the whole neighborhood...
cuckoo
1824
the masses wait
but all in vain...
cuckoo
1824
don't come! don't come!
ugly cuckoo
ugly crow
1824
Toribe Field--
ugly cuckoo!
ugly crow!
1824
the cuckoo serenades
all of Edo
all...night...long!
1824
also waiting
for the cuckoo...
a fool
1824
all of them have left
the ugly cuckoos!
cuckoos!
1824
mountain crow
don't interrupt!
cuckoo
1824
hey, get up!
it's a cuckoo
cuckoo!
1824
in the middle of the night
an unwelcome song...
cuckoo
1824
admonishing
my heavy drinking...
mountain cuckoo
1824
are you lecturing me
about my heavy drinking?
mountain cuckoo
1824
grandpa's teahouse--
to the right, to the left
mountain cuckoos
1824
you and I
a perfect pair...
mountain cuckoo
1824
are we too
destined to die?
mountain cuckoo
1824
sticking to
the raftsman's rice...
fireflies
1824
broad-leafed reeds--
a flitting firefly
catches his breath
1824
reed-thatched house--
crawling on his belly
hunting fireflies
1824
the raftsman's snore
sends it flying...
firefly
1824
over the big house
an excellent flight!
firefly
1824
can't quite get over
the high rooftop...
firefly
1824
house in deep shade
at high noon...
fireflies
1824
mother monkey
baby on her back points...
fireflies!
1824
the sleeping dog
extends a paw...
flitting firefly
1824
first firefly--
carelessly it leaves
Kyoto
1824
the first firefly
flies smack into people's
heads
1824
leaving the town
breathing easier...
firefly
1824
swarm of fireflies--
which of you are Seta?
which are Awazu?
1824
shooing fireflies
from the rice tub...
night boat
1824
staying in the house
it bumped into...
big firefly
1824
don't go! don't go!
all their calls are lies
first firefly
1824
in tufted grasses--
thin mosquito, thin flea
thin child
1824
pesky mosquito--
on the lip
of the loud scold
1824
hut's mosquitos--
though it's a pitiful mess
they house-sit
1824
Edo's mosquitos
so bold!
so bold!
1824
darkness--
the mosquito enters a hole
that caught his eye
1824
thrown together--
thin mosquitos, thin fleas
thin children
1824
knees smelling of sake
taste just fine...
mosquitos
1824
driven from next door
here they come...
mosquitos
1824
not worried
about Japan's mosquitos...
the swallow
1824
noontime mosquito
sneaking up silently
from behind
1824
noontime mosquito
sneaking up silently
from under the desk
1824
from Buddha's direction
a mosquito...
temple hall
1824
even the mosquito hates
thin legs...
quickly moving on
1824
aimed at mosquitos
to smoke them out...
my candle
1824
three flies
on his lucky earlobes...
at rest
1824
go flies, to the field!
sour flowers
sweet flowers
1824
the more I swat
the more they come...
flies on my lap
1824
the blind priest
with his red bowl...
shooing flies
1824
foolish fly--
bathing again in the
fire pan's ashes
1824
I go back in
my thatched hut...
the fly does the same
1824
the fly
left a little spot...
a letter
1824
the chicken's poor
at pecking them...
rice cake's flies
1824
the lacquered tray
is the fly's
outhouse
1824
swatted as a substitute
for the fly...
tatami mat
1824
even a fly
has hopes and dreams...
bathing in ashes
1824
a coat over his head
against the flies...
crying child
1824
flies shooed away
by a pretty woman...
sleeping boy
1824
"It's a good year!"
they clamor...
flies in the grass
1824
a conscientious man--
shooing a fly
off someone else's head
1824
coming back
inside my house...
the gate's flies
1824
in the green lawn
rubbing off fleas...
the cat
1824
traveler's flea--
from temple to the valley
it jumps
1824
is my back-alley house
too gloomy, fleas?
jumping out
1824
don't chase, don't chase!
the flea's pretending
to hide
1824
river wind--
even in the sandy field
fleas jumping
1824
monkey in the tree
discarding his fleas...
on the dog
1824
thicket where they were dumped--
pit-a-pat the fleas
jump back
1824
pit-a-pat fleas
jump and cling to legs...
river beach
1824
in the lap
of the holy man...
a cicada sings
1824
on the great goblin's
humongous nose
a snail
1824
under a dribbling tree
stretching her neck
a snail
1824
in this falling rain
where are you off to
snail?
1824
clinging to a leaf
of bamboo
a teeny-tiny snail
1824
closing the door
he drops off to sleep...
snail
1824
making the rounds
on the plaster wall...
snail
1824
emerging
from the rice bowl
a snail
1824
running with a barrel
on his head...
summer's first bonito
1824
a big house--
even for the dog
summer's first bonito
1824
grassy shoreline--
summer's first bonito
then sunrise
1824
my portion
just a tiny slice...
summer's first bonito
1824
the boy-turned-monk
holds beauty...
a poppy
1824
a foolish shade
of Edo purple...
the poppy
1824
"pretty lady" poppy
with Buddha nature...
which saint are you?
1824
in the silver dew
good luck dwells...
peony garden
1824
in the field
of towering wheat...
a peony
1824
looking out of place
at my thatched hut...
blooming peony
1824
not quite fitting in
my thatched hut...
the peony
1824
a hanging temple bell
a lantern...
and a peony
1824
my oh my
what a happy face...
peony
1824
a perfect match
for the crazy cat...
peony
1824
wrapped in
a beggarly vine...
the peony
1824
"Good luck's coming!"
the peony longs
to be heard
1824
a mountain temple--
clouds of red
peonies!
1824
vegetable patch--
four or five rustling
lotus blossoms
1824
running messages, wagtail
for the shrine's god?
irises
1824
thatched roof--
the irises piercing it
bloom
1824
world of Buddha's law!
the holy man's banana tree
has bloomed
1824
ripened wheat--
walking through the field
a little sake vendor
1824
the wheat's autumn
like real autumn...
cold drizzle
1824
a splendid, tall
young bamboo!
young bamboo!
1824
among the anthills
swish swish...
this year's bamboo
1824
rustling, rustling
the field's bamboo too...
young and lively
1824
what a racket!
the gate's young bamboo
young sparrows
1824
what a racket!
even good-for-nothing bamboo
at the peak of youth
1824
becoming a walking stick
little bamboo
at the peak of youth
1824
growing toward my window
to cheer me up?
this year's bamboo
1824
living in harmony--
boy and girl bamboo
the peak of youth
1824
young bamboo
and old bamboo...
full of pluck
1824
bamboo shoots--
mingling with trees
they bend
1824
even the old tree
happy happy...
fresh green leaves
1824
the paulownia tree
serene and still...
fresh green leaves
1824
even the old wall
is frugal...
fresh green leaves
1824
round ones, square ones
the box tree's
fresh green leaves
1824
the mountain temple
looks empty...
summer trees
1824
under cover of darkness
sneaking in...
chilly autumn
1824
"winter is coming,
coming!" rips
in the paper door
1824
after struggling to reach
Mount Obasute...
rain-gazing
1824
harvest moon night
on Mount Obasute...
rain gazing
1824
a farting contest--
harvest moon night
in the hut
1824
house in the thicket--
my rice cake stuck to the pan
Ninth month moon
1824
a green paper
mulberry leaf, offered
to the stars
1824
helping the child's hand
write it...
the star poem
1824
Misayama--
today, all day
a famous site!
1824
griping about
the war lord's fireworks...
mouths of Edo
1824
pretending not to see
his wife's face...
defeated wrestler
1824
he makes a fine
windbreak...
sumo wrestler
1824
letting the wrestler
rub her hand...
a woman
1824
he's finally become
a sumo wrestler!
parents burst with pride
1824
basking in the war lord's
good graces...
sumo wrestler
1824
to the loincloth
raising his sake...
sumo wrestler
1824
turning aside
to look at Mount Fuji...
sumo champion
1824
the world today!
even a good-for-nothing river
has a bird clapper
1824
Mama serves
the evening tea...
pounding cloth
1824
evening rain--
my next door neighbor
pounding cloth
1824
new rice--
coming as expected
graveyard sparrows
1824
some spilled new rice
all muddy...
before the storehouse
1824
from his kimono's
sleeve pocket...
this year's perfect rice
1824
hard times--
in my home just one
cask of new sake
1824
cedar needles
garnish the drink...
new sake
1824
its maker and seller
are one in the same...
new sake
1824
enshrined
on the hanging shelf...
new sake
1824
from three places
arriving all at once...
new sake
1824
homemade in a hut
deep in mountains...
new sake
1824
autumn departs
on a palanquin...
new sake in the shop
1824
how irritating!
the wild geese freely
call their friends
1824
migrating birds--
not one of them
lacks skill
1824
walking stick hole--
don't you like it, snake?
he doesn't enter
1824
snakes--
go home to the holes
of their birth
1824
such chatter!
even the field's insects
join in
1824
the eye pods
come off with a crackle...
dragonfly
1824
the eye pods
come right off...
dragonfly
1824
to my humble hut
he comes fly-hunting...
katydid
1824
vegetable patch--
here, there...and there!
chrysanthemums
1824
in cool morning glories
eating my rice
alone
1824
temple crow
in his usual home...
banana tree
1824
the field crow's
clever resting place...
banana tree
1824
autumn rice--
the green reflected
in thin ice
1824
until the trip to Edo
again and again...
young tobacco
1824
deep mountains--
a child also gnaws
a hot pepper
1824
tiny little things--
look!
Edo's hot peppers
1824
without fanfare
they have bloomed...
roses of Sharon
1824
it's no disgrace
to be long-blooming!
roses of Sharon
1824
acorn--
rolling three times
then into the pond
1824
the big chestnut
tumbles to a stop...
at granny's feet
1824
fallen chestnuts
that gatherers missed...
Kiso road
1824
chestnuts falling--
all the chickens
squawking!
1824
crunch crunch
over ungathered chestnuts...
Kiso Mountains
1824
the helpful child gathered
but left them outside...
garden's chestnuts
1824
during our night chat
chestnuts boil...
down to tiny beads
1824
this deep forest
is haunted!
goblin mushrooms sprout
1824
mountain's foot--
Twelfth Month sunlight
floods the village
1824
ramshackle hut--
adding to the cold
more cold
1824
thin wall--
with the moonlight comes
the cold
1824
thin wall--
from the mouse's hole
the cold
1824
for the gaunt priest
the cold
twice colder
1824
cold weather comes
rough and pitiless too...
samurai gate
1824
sweeping a garden--
cold crashes into Edo
rough and tough
1824
softly gently--
cold weather creeps
into Kyoto
1824
night in the hut--
every pillar
split by the cold
1824
since last year
twice as cold...
next year?
1824
in the poor old
salt keg too...
winter cold
1824
the little child
keeps it in a box...
first ice
1824
the child finishes it
with his little box...
ice
1824
ice included--
she pulls souvenirs
from her sleeve
1824
night of freeze--
on silk damask sits
my piss-pot
1824
under the ice
the cat's eyes follow...
crazy fish
1824
the packhorse crosses
tat-a-tat...
the ice
1824
main temple--
the copybook's paperweight
a shard of ice
1824
the night watchman's
drum freezes...
vacant mansion
1824
sacred monkeys
pick each other's fleas...
a spring day in winter
1824
a spring day in winter--
I go out for a walk
a fly comes along
1824
bedtime sake--
whether the new year comes
or not
1824
in a Buddhist land too
prison inmates...
the year ends
1824
the year ending--
the old man feels somehow
abandoned
1824
seeing me home
to my hut...
the winter rain
1824
rear window--
every day, day, day
northerly winter rain
1824
big straw sandals
pitter-patter...
steady winter rain
1824
again and again
the winter rain stopping
starting
1824
escorting the man
to the temple...
the winter rain
1824
falling on my feet
as I sleep...
night's winter rain
1824
being weighed in the scales
for mountain brushwood...
winter rain
1824
cold winter sky--
where will this wandering beggar
grow old?
1824
winter wind--
a crescendo of snores
in my trashy house
1824
winter wind--
but still Sumiyoshi's
shrine lamps burn
1824
in winter wind
the field watchman's snores
crescendo
1824
sleeping on
the winter wind...
great temple hall
1824
kindly the winter wind
sweeps
my gate
1824
winter wind--
by the gate the hackberry tree's
big biceps
1824
winter wind--
the perpetual altar lamp
quietly burns
1824
winter wind--
camellia blossoms have fixed
their make-up
1824
winter wind
under where I sleep...
rushhhhhhing!
1824
they curse the first snow
like it's a beggar...
rest stop
1824
watching first snow--
mending holes
in the paper door
1824
the first snowfall
doesn't hide it...
dog poop
1824
sheltered from wind
what a snow pile!
garden by the gate
1824
the visitor
must make a path...
snow at the gate
1824
heartily dreading
the coming snow...
door shut tight
1824
morning snow--
thousands of fields
have changed
1824
on second look
not round at all...
snow at my gate
1824
the worms in my belly
warn:
"Snow tomorrow!"
1824
though a snow attack
is predicted...
peaceful sleep
1824
at my ramshackle hut
flying into fire...
hailstones
1824
pelting people
on the highway...
hailstones
1824
making people
on the highway scatter...
hailstones
1824
frosty night--
seven poor men
in a huddle
1824
just before dawn
a man passing through...
withered fields
1824
a pheasant rising
startles the man...
withered fields
1824
voices in the wind
the withered field's
crows
1824
don't miss my gate
please!
good luck god
1824
trying to do my laundry
while the gods are away...
another day of rain
1824
world of suffering--
when the gods travel, too
a storm
1824
well, well
coming home in the rain...
god of the poor
1824
don't forget
your pink-cheeked wife!
departing god
1824
crows line up
after their baths...
welcoming the gods
1824
after winter prayers
right away...
a trip to Yoshiwara
1824
ten nights of
winter prayers, ten nights
of moon
1824
world of Buddha's law--
even a dog on winter
pilgrimage
1824
in a straw raincoat
sitting up straight...
winter prayers
1824
Kyoto's imperial palace--
octopus served
at winter prayers
1824
behold these traveler's
wrinkles...
Basho Buddha!
1824
Basho's Death Day--
a banquet for
wrinkled travelers
1824
lighting fingernails
instead of a lamp...
god of wealth festival
1824
child's festival--
if you go to sleep and wait
sticky rice cakes!
1824
night festival--
a mouse on the offering shelf
the first customer
1824
at winter voice drills
he's famous...
the naughty boy
1824
my home village--
four or five years of soot
need sweeping
1824
after the soot-sweeping
clamor...
the temple's red candles
1824
sweeping soot--
in the high priest's chamber
a lonely cauldron
1824
downwind
from the horse's fart...
Twelfth Month singers
1824
playing with the dog
at the gate...
little Twelfth Month singer
1824
a child Buddha
pointing...
Twelfth Month singers
1824
Twelfth Month singers
at the temple's great gate...
moon at dusk
1824
just a single helping
of rice cake is pounded...
a commotion!
1824
the sound of rice cake
pounding drifts here...
distant neighbor
1824
making just one
round rice cake...
a commotion!
1824
secluded house--
even for the piss-pot
a gift of new clothes
1824
feather-light
made of paper...
gift of new clothes
1824
secluded house--
every day after day
drinking away the year
1824
living alone--
just one bottle
for drinking away the year
1824
our great age!
in every little town
year's end fairs
1824
showing off
my leather coat...
year's end fair
1824
bundling it up
with an old charm...
last year's calendar
1824
the mountain hermit
calls it medicine...
last year's calendar
1824
I've counted
my trouble-free days...
last year's calendar
1824
unlike me
not covered with soot...
last year's calendar
1824
growing a year older
in Japan
is a comfort
1824
a present from
Amida Buddha...
one year older
1824
Asakusa--
visiting the temple
driving out a devil
1824
the devil driven
from a horse...
Ise Shrine pilgrimage
1824
four-way crossroads--
one drives out devils
one takes them in
1824
old bird--
even before the hunt begins
accepting the inevitable
1824
heading for where
bird hunters are few...
the fox
1824
bird hunter--
even for a fox
no mercy
1824
bird hunter--
even before his falcon
a weary sleep
1824
the crow laughs
at the bird hunters...
temple roof
1824
up to now
how many days of thirst?
hunted bird
1824
a fugitive in the temple
caught alive...
pheasant
1824
fleeing bird--
every direction it turns
people's voices
1824
fleeing bird
watch out, that way's
a pit trap!
1824
working hard
the bird chases its prey...
foxhole
1824
without walking stick
I cross the bridge...
light padded robe
1824
only his mouth now
is vigorous...
paper robe
1824
the wastepaper patch
for the burn hold tickles...
paper robe
1824
at my gate--
the snow Buddha also
scowls
1824
an untamed horse
behind the house...
winter seclusion
1824
because they interrupt
and glare...
winter seclusion
1824
interrupting again
I'm glared at...
winter seclusion
1824
rude interruptions
are a chronic illness...
winter seclusion
1824
the cricket also
moves in with me...
winter seclusion
1824
audaciously
going out for a walk...
winter seclusion
1824
not concerned
that the horizontal scroll is vertical...
winter seclusion
1824
under my nose
vegetables turning green...
winter seclusion
1824
one more day
of winter seclusion...
makes two
1824
stretching my legs
to sleep one night...
winter seclusion
1824
road after road
inside her palanquin...
winter seclusion
1824
Buddha in his niche
in the pillar...
winter seclusion
1824
my burry-headed
Benkei brazier...
is my affair
1824
while praising
brazier-man at the gate
the kid sweeps
1824
we tell stories
of the far mountains
'round the brazier
1824
for the young actor
in an open window...
a brazier
1824
poking to stoke
the banked fire...
once more
1824
even after
my banked fire has vanished...
I trust
1824
natto--
for a full portion
traveling far
1824
the souvenir straw wrapper
smolders too...
my natto
1824
wrapped in straw--
country natto
country chrysanthemum
1824
calling people
for the pufferfish soup...
highway
1824
every evening
my sleep medicine...
pufferfish soup
1824
making a face
he turns down the boar stew...
children's teacher
1824
the shop front's
horned owl
fidgeting, fidgeting
1824
horned owl--
sleeping so well
atop the pole
1824
Iosaki--
in a kettle a plover
singing
1824
the dog's path
opened with song...
beach plovers
1824
playing with
faraway plovers...
the child
1824
an uproar on the beach--
children
and plovers
1824
"Endure!" says
the sign on the post...
shrieking plovers
1824
beach plovers--
their meeting place
the twisted pine
1824
west beach--
harmony destroyed by
northen plovers
1824
on a floating log
curled to sleep...
duckling
1824
with made-to-order
motley coloring...
the radish
1824
even for washing
four or five radishes...
hired help
1824
gnawing a radish
till it's gone...
the old man
1824
at picking time
not left out...the thicket's
radishes
1824
dawn--
the glint of leeks
in the sink
1824
stand of trees--
and withering too
devil's bramble
1824
scratching the field Buddha's
head too...
tree leaves
1824
mountain village--
on the tatami mats
raking leaves
1824
winter withering--
on the willow's gnarl
straw sandals for sale
1824
their bright red
nature revealed...
out-of-season blooms
1824
life has perks--
the old tree blooming
out of season
1825
New Year's Day--
my hut's front door
all ready
1825
New Year's Day--
in the dark before dawn
the lover cat
1825
on New Year's morning
the prayers to Buddha
come and go
1825
I struggled though
my New Year's Day...
like everyone
1825
on one side
of my paper lantern...
first of spring
1825
at Zenkô Temple
praising Buddha to the beat...
spring begins
1825
an old man's world--
flowers of snow on bare trees
spring's blossoms
1825
Musashi Plain--
feudal lords too
on spring journeys
1825
a bit of gambling
to ward off mosquitos this year...
spring in the village
1825
New Year's shelf--
even in this dump
etiquette
1825
Servants' Holiday--
fellow travelers part ways
combing the hair
1825
ramshackle hut--
my New Year's decorations
on crooked
1825
a bit stuck-up--
the big house without
New Year's decorations
1825
blown away as usual
my house's
New Year's rope
1825
the first month
has me hooked on it...
lucky tea
1825
from outside
plum blossoms diving in...
lucky tea
1825
facing the mountain
of my home village...
"Happy New Year!"
1825
the uproar in the servants' room
wins out...
New Year's toasts
1825
tight-fisted donors
rolling along...
"Happy New Year!"
1825
side by side
while we piddle...
"Happy New Year!"
1825
starting the New Year's luck
first stoke
of the fire
1825
it's called
the evil witch...
spiced sake
1825
from the short sword's
hilt dingle-dangling
herbs
1825
looking at
the always looked-at field...
New Year's herbs
1825
finishing up
the big samurai's rice...
year's first crow
1825
country of gods!
on New Year's Day grasses
suddenly bloom
1825
I'm through
with this dirty world...
a long spring day
1825
on a peaceful
long spring day...
straw raincoat incognito
1825
a long spring day--
my tears of joy
rolling down
1825
long spring day--
yet still
lazy as a slug
1825
when even bathing
becomes a chore...
a long spring day
1825
a walking pilgrimage
to Nara's "Seven Fields"...
spring sunlight
1825
the long
stretched-out spring finally...
over
1825
the sake drinker
almost sobbing...
"I miss spring!"
1825
"It's theater day!"
my wife goes out...
spring rain
1825
spring rain--
to help the digestion
a hot bath
1825
a day for wandering
a day for haiku...
spring rain
1825
spring breeze--
even a child has a winnow
two winnows!
1825
heat shimmers--
an avalanche
on firewood mountain!
1825
on a lucky day
the snow on the old head
has melted!
1825
the pecking chicken
makes it melt...
snow at the gate
1825
rearranged
by the wind...
spring equinox snow
1825
picking herbs--
Mother from her palanquin
watches
1825
teasing a butterfly
with his tail...
the kitten
1825
baby sparrows
by the cow and the horse
untrampled
1825
bush warbler--
half of the house is still
moonlit
1825
bush warbler--
the sparrow pecking
the rice for the god
1825
bush warbler--
the bell rings, he sings
the bell rings, he sings
1825
when he sings he sings
the Lotus Sutra...
gambling at the crossroads
1825
stone still
for the smelling horse...
a frog
1825
down he sits
with a great thump...
frog
1825
on top of a stake
eyeing Edo...
a frog
1825
hanging from the yellow rose
with one hand...
a frog!
1825
a previous life's bond?
little butterfly
on my sleeve, asleep
1825
in tree shade
relaxing with a butterfly...
friends in a previous life
1825
tickling the baby
in the basket awake...
little butterfly
1825
baby in a basket--
playing with her snot
a little butterfly
1825
skillfully skirting
the hot tub waterfall...
little butterfly
1825
recklessly stomping
the baby grass...
muddy straw sandals
1825
new grass--
so young, so young
so very young!
1825
new green grass
makes a perfect circle...
facing the temple hall
1825
as wonderful
as a priceless garden stone...
azaleas
1825
walking along
sweeping shells...
plum blossom village
1825
with a plain, light-blue
skullcap...
blossom viewing
1825
cherry trees blooming--
this corrupt world
is a Pure Land!
1825
in a blooming cherry tree
a chicken sleeps...
Sensô Temple
1825
if someone came
I'd have a companion...
blossoming mountain
1825
toward the mouth
shouting "There! There!"
cherry blossoms fall
1825
mountain goblins
are out in droves...
cherry blossoms!
1825
the dog at the gate
barks for fun...
at peach blossoms
1825
the horse stands
rubbing his rump...
peach blossoms
1825
our cool night
sure is short...
but fun!
1825
short summer night--
in the field turtles
cavort
1825
though night is short
too long! too long!
for me
1825
a short night
in the mountain ridge house...
but good sleep
1825
even on a hot day
out for the children...
swallows
1825
for swallows
houses piled on houses...
the heat
1825
cool air--
even in my soup bowl
Mount Fuji!
1825
cool air--
a green hanging bell
red blossoms
1825
cool air--
paper snowflakes fluttering
down
1825
the hanging temple bell
is all green...
cool air
1825
pretty--
not a cloud in the
midsummer sky
1825
this midsummer heat
is a garden wrecker...
my hut
1825
my one-and-only
umbrella-hat stolen...
midsummer heat
1825
a little paper lantern
is my pipe-lighting tool--
June rain
1825
for a sincere land
even in the next life...
Rain of the Tiger
1825
wetting this old man's
sleeve too...
Rain of the Tiger
1825
the village of human goblins
isn't left out...
Rain of the Tiger
1825
Land of the Rising Sun!
old as heaven and earth
Rain of the Tiger
1825
though in the Latter Days
the land of the gods!
Tiger Rain
1825
all puffed up
today the cloudburst
comes again
1825
origins--
Mount Tsukuba's cloudburst
becomes Mount Fuji's
1825
with a cloudburst
kneaded in completely...
the field
1825
after the cloudburst
again it's bustling...
Nomachi Town
1825
a rainstorm--
Kisa Lagoon's farmland
and Kanman Temple
1825
in the cloudburst
chin up, back straight...
chrysanthemum
1825
rainstorm--
naked he rides
a naked horse
1825
rainstorm--
the shrine in the thicket's
twelve lamps
1825
rice fields! gardens!
one-inch horses, bean-sized men
and billowing clouds
1825
unaware of the thunder--
a late sleeper's
lucky sleep
1825
the Buddha--
on his birthday a shower
of coins
1825
Buddha pretends
to be born...
bells and big drums
1825
the Buddha
immersed in coins celebrates
his birthday
1825
at my summer retreat
he visits every night...
the toad
1825
others might think
I'm at my summer calligraphy...
little window
1825
about ten times through
for the foundling...
purification hoop
1825
on the purification doll
floating away...
my louse
1825
"Farewell! Farewell!"
the purification doll floats away...
little child
1825
night fishing--
the ones that get away
all runts
1825
at long last
the cloudburst!
the big drum booms
1825
in straw raincoats
for the summer shower...
drinking party
1825
the swallow
wide-mouthed chatters...
new summer robes
1825
how delightful--
my damp, sweaty
traveler's bathrobe
1825
the pony's eyes
look afraid...
parasols
1825
in wooden clogs
crossing a narrow rope...
with parasol
1825
a beggar goes first
praising Buddha...
with parasol
1825
white umbrella-hats
pale blue parasols...
Higashi Mountains
1825
on the cooked rice-tub
the bamboo blind is green...
trashy house
1825
Ryogaku Bridge--
a little boat with green
bamboo blinds
1825
in evening's mosquito net
rustling
wildflowers
1825
on the fan's handle
the baby sucks...
a substitute
1825
wind-making goblin
where are you fanning
your fan?
1825
the child on her back
cries to the beat...
rice-planting song
1825
even a little child
comes out of the house...
rice planters' lunch
1825
the wisteria too
blooming en masse...
rice-planting song
1825
the child on her back
is sulking...
weeding the rice field
1825
if you're old
just sucking on ice...
a celebration
1825
Ryogoku Bridge--
a chilled water vendor
in the evening
1825
in a secluded house
new sweet sake...
an uproar!
1825
making a waterfall
under the eaves...
sweet jelly
1825
humble hut--
the sushi weighed down
with a rice gourd
1825
unable to eat
the snake sushi...
Edo woman
1825
waiting for the sushi
serving...
pillows
1825
while waiting for sushi
a walk...
riverbank
1825
knotweed leaves
turn red too...
overnight sushi
1825
a bat flits
under my sleeve...
moonlit night
1825
generations of bats
have called this storehouse
home
1825
bats keep the pilgrims
company...
Buddha of Healing
1825
flood waters--
bats dangle
from the crossing-rope
1825
I entrust my home
for the night
to mosquito-eating bats
1825
imitating the grey heron
are you?
molting bird
1825
great Edo
from nook to nook
"Cuckoo!"
1825
a big leap--
the fleeing burglar
and a cuckoo
1825
waking the farmer
from his siesta...
cuckoo
1825
while the canoe goes
swish, swish, swish...
a cuckoo
1825
the goblins are gone
so get to work!
cuckoo
1825
having a jumping contest
a night burglar
a cuckoo
1825
just one song
then turning a cold shoulder...
cuckoo
1825
a cuckoo sings
the little boat goes
swish, swish!
1825
turning a cold shoulder
to the one who waited...
cuckoo
1825
pecking rice
on the shrine's fence...
mountain cuckoo
1825
the village hits
a crescendo of snores...
reed warbler
1825
"The dog took your lunch!"
the reed warbler
tattles
1825
working at night
under the full moon...
reed warbler
1825
night work singing
under the full moon...
reed warbler
1825
do you prefer
living alone?
lingering duck
1825
cutting loose
in the cool air...
a duck who stayed
1825
not running away
not hiding...
lingering duck
1825
no wife and kids
waiting for you?
lingering duck
1825
the world today!
even a snake's skin
for sale
1825
a pine tree
the snake skin's hanger...
Island of Gods
1825
old granny--
hanging from her shoulder
a snake's skin
1825
sleeping in the house
it bumped into...
big firefly
1825
escaping the fight outside
my hut's
fireflies
1825
a nursing child
copying what he sees...
calling fireflies
1825
go out, firefly!
again and again
making me stand?
1825
one more
cross the river!
fireflies flit
1825
after the bath
tickling my armpit...
firefly
1825
"The world is better!
better!" says
the huge firefly
1825
eat and run, the wisdom
of mosquitos and fleas...
Wisdom Buddha's temple
1825
only pretending
to be burned he returns...
mosquito
1825
no matter what
food I'm served...
inn's flies
1825
on the high priest's
head...
flies making love
1825
the bell of life passing--
O flies and worms
listen well!
1825
deep in mountains--
the mushrooms also
kill flies
1825
hut's fleas--
a child on her back
running to escape
1825
since I'm decrepit
the fleas aren't worried
about escaping
1825
growing old--
my fleas don't even bother
to run away
1825
too many fleas
here there, there here...
into the fire!
1825
here there, there here
healthy fleas...
and proud
1825
burning fleas
to predict the weather...
mountain home
1825
good moon--
but going inside
a hell of fleas
1825
"Don't go in this
poison water!"
a water strider warns
1825
Tone River--
only one solitary
water strider
1825
purification font--
some insects fly over it
other glide
1825
cicadas chirr--
the blind priest's fan
his umbrella-hat
1825
so teeny-tiny
peacefully resting
snail
1825
on a bamboo leaf
such a clever little one...
snail
1825
great Edo--
even for the dog
summer's first bonito
1825
a bonito fish
for the row house...
an uproar!
1825
to my humble hut
they come to gawk...
summer's first bonito
1825
carrying a poppy
he passes through
the quarrel
1825
a first-rate shade
of Edo purple...
the poppy
1825
this is something--
eight or nine
petaled poppy
1825
not just purple colored
double blossomed...
this poppy
1825
on both sides
poppies in bloom...
hermit's garden
1825
a money-making
temple...
the peonies in bloom
1825
the temple favors
the Chinese style...
with its peonies
1825
stuck in a hole
in a stone signpost...
a peony
1825
a masterly climb
to the top of the peony...
frog
1825
the swallow wipes
his muddy mouth...
on the peony
1825
day after day
bathing in wheat chaff...
the peony
1825
rice chaff--
the path through
the peony garden
1825
mountain clouds--
that red one a field
of peonies
1825
wheat husking--
in the middle of a highway
a tea kettle
1825
wheat husking--
a paper lantern
in the gate's hackberry tree
1825
thatched roof--
how many ears of wheat
did birds bring?
1825
thatched roof--
the bird has added
an ear of wheat
1825
children hiccup
in the shade...
fresh green leaves
1825
a noble effort--
the scraggly hedge too
has fresh green leaves
1825
hearing voices
the leech drops...
summer trees
1825
back window view--
just one tree
for deep cool shade
1825
a flower big
as an umbrella-hat...
deep tree shade
1825
the Shinto priest's
festival for one...
deep tree shade
1825
wildflowers blooming
pure white...
deep tree shade
1825
deutzia blossom hedge
the dog's
maternity room
1825
deutzia blossoms--
the children visit
the frog's grave
1825
looking, looking
at the back wall we chat...
a cold night
1825
a sight to see!
from a hole in the wall
autumn moon
1825
hole in the old wall
a famous site...
autumn moon
1825
through the wall's hole
the harvest moon...
sleep time's pleasure
1825
harvest moon
through the wall's hole...
a late riser
1825
"Praise! Praise!"
in harvest moonlight
a child prays
1825
one harvest moon
special-delivered...
little room
1825
starvation gives way
to rice cakes!
Ninth Month moon
1825
autumn wind--
Issa's heart and mind
stirring
1825
autumn wind--
it's from the Buddha's
Western Paradise!
1825
my home village
can't see it now...
autumn wind
1825
eating my rice
in solitude...
autumn wind
1825
a bell is clanging
nonstop...
autumn wind
1825
a red gem
of a berry falls too...
dripping down dew
1825
leak in the wall--
plop plop plopping
dewdrops
1825
incense smoke
on the Buddha in the field...
morning dew
1825
on the straw sandals
of a visitor...
the gate's dewdrops
1825
lightning flash--
lying in a row, faces
of sixty year-olds
1825
the evening teahouse
by the river is closing...
little lightning
1825
on leaves of bamboo
lightning
flickers, flickers
1825
at my house
morning fog, noon fog
evening fog
1825
the darling child
summons his mother
crawling, laughing
1825
the ancestors come
and inspect it...
rice field by the gate
1825
child in my arms--
"Mama's coming!"
he hits the prayer gong
1825
on the ancestors' altar
flopping down to sleep...
thieving cat
1825
an orphan led
by hand...
a lantern for the grave
1825
temple tea--
coolness under a shady
temple tree
1825
while weaving
straw sandals, temple tea
in the shade
1825
even while serving
temple tea...
the maiden charms
1825
bonfires spelling "Great"
fizzle out...
eastern mountain
1825
though jokingly
it's a Bon dance!
moon at the gate
1825
that dancer's voice
exactly like my mother's
exactly...
1825
I survive
a Bon Festival dance day...
age sixty
1825
cool night--
which stars are the children?
the great-great-grandchildren?
1825
beaming smiles
in the best of moods...
two stars
1825
from time immemorial
Bride Star!
Groom Star!
1825
even one-penny
fireworks...
ooo! ahh!
1825
even for me--
fabulously expensive
fireworks!
1825
stooping
to enter his house...
sumo wrestler
1825
the sumo wrestler
apologizing, releases
the sparrow
1825
the wrestler's defeat
spreads a thousand miles
quickly
1825
temple mountain--
the dog also barks
at a scarecrow
1825
divinity
in my house too...
new sake
1825
nagging, nagging--
the new sake
is drained
1825
cedar needles
rustle in the wind...
cask of new sake
1825
the young buck kneels
on one knee...
moon-gazing
1825
the sacred deer
stand still
to be petted
1825
on a large beach
early risers for breakfast...
snipe
1825
when the temple bell
stops clanging...
preening snipe
1825
how long the snipe
preens its feathers...
skillfully
1825
tea smoke--
the snipe-loving snipe's
intimate song
1825
geese at my gate--
when I return
how they glare!
1825
wild geese clamoring
and one pretentious
crow
1825
geese and ducks
honking, quacking away...
the horse
1825
making themselves at home
asleep, awake...
geese at my gate
1825
even the stag beetle
calls for a wife...
night voices
1825
grassy meadow--
insects crowd 'round
the paper lantern
1825
he's utterly given up
silent
insect
1825
grumbling--
the insects outside
the house in the trees
1825
don't cry, insects!
the world will get better
in its own time
1825
though a weak insect
he holds his own...
that voice!
1825
against the black fence
trying to hide...
dragonfly
1825
the dragonfly's
steady glare...
Mount Fuji
1825
a cricket
tickling my face
passes by
1825
trampled to pieces
by the crickets...
my eaves
1825
in the shallow river
swimming splendidly...
locust
1825
in the flood
trusting divine protection...
locust
1825
in the flood
its karma is strong...
flying locust
1825
even at the peak
of my hut's grass roof...
a locust
1825
the leftovers
caught by the cat, people eat...
locusts
1825
biting the hand
that sets it free...
katydid
1825
village child--
accompanies the earthworms' song
with flute
1825
that voice
he's a young one...
earthworm
1825
the earthworms' song
grows thinner...
night by night
1825
the ocean--
coming for sardines
even the dog
1825
the vegetable patch's layout--
here and there
chrysanthemums
1825
perfectly straight
if we let it be...
chrysanthemum
1825
about as good
as the morning glories...
temple bell
1825
morning glory--
a poor vine accompanies it
creeping along
1825
dawn--
the windblown, exhausted
maiden flowers
1825
maiden flowers--
after one windy night
fallen
1825
unfortunately growing
by a busy road...
dishevelled bush clover
1825
an unexpected
country teahouse...
blooming bush clover
1825
looks like
an old-timey gate...
blooming bush clover
1825
dishevelled bush clover
but all tied up...
by the poet
1825
the horned owl
remains polite...
dishevelled bush clover
1825
river by the gate--
washing her treasured
famine potato
1825
gifted with more
than could ever be used...
little yams
1825
divine wind--
on this rugged mountain
sumo grass
1825
the young buck
with a load on his back...
red leaves
1825
into the sunken hearth
they're swept...
red leaves
1825
red leaves flare
and die...
time rolls on
1825
mountain temple--
all the buildings strewn
with red leaves
1825
the paulownia leaf
his fly-guard...
he sleeps
1825
cranking them out
all at once...
a hundred leaves fall
1825
a bit chilly--
sitting cross-legged
on a paulownia leaf
1825
a toad
on a paulownia leaf...
cross-legged
1825
the old priest
fans himself...
paulownia leaf
1825
heading for where
quince is scarce...
rose of Sharon
1825
crumbled house--
the glorious roses
of Sharon
1825
this side trimmed
that side resentful...
hedge of roses
1825
on a hanging shelf
making my mouth open wide...
chocolate vine fruit
1825
on the shelf all night
making my mouth open wide...
chocolate vine fruit
1825
the red berry
catches a bird's eye too...
on the fence
1825
one, two
chestnuts by torchlight...
an uproar
1825
searching for fallen chestnuts
with my feet...
Miwa evening
1825
the chestnut worm
creeps outside...
showing off
1825
the crows join
the children...
gathering chestnuts
1825
into the castle's moat
chestnuts drop...
plop! plop!
1825
big tree--
children stomping on
fallen chestnuts
1825
crunching on raw chestnuts--
the peak
of childhood
1825
measuring the length
of a pinecone...
this floating world
1825
on short days
my work's reward...
god of the poor
1825
one part earth
one part metal...
winter cold
1825
icing over
along with my house...
Sumida River
1825
along with people
it freezes...
bridge under the moon
1825
makes no difference to me--
the year ends
or doesn't end
1825
so pretty--
as the year finally ends
evening's sky
1825
two winter storms
come one after the other...
field by the gate
1825
winter wind--
Gojiin Field's sweet
sake shope
1825
winter wind--
three-penny mountain
sweet potatoes
1825
"First snowfall!"
they rise and sing...
worms in my gut
1825
big snowstorm!
the colic bug inside me
starts singing
1825
a heavy drinker's
prayer is answered...
beggarly snow
1825
great temple gate--
in snow they line up
for candy
1825
a teeny-tiny bit--
even Heaven's snow
in short supply
1825
pissing
with the neighbor...
evening snow
1825
snow falling--
one blade of grass
trembling
1825
on a half-snow
half-mud road...
slogging along
1825
on a snowy day
the temple is packed...
pigeons, sparrows
1825
rain and moon
a half-and-half mix...
winter prayers
1825
the hut's dog is escort
to the winter
prayers
1825
moonlit octopus
at the imperial palace...
winter prayers
1825
"It's Basho's Death-Day..."
I tell
myself
1825
walking into sunset
on Basho's Death-Day...
straw sandals
1825
Basho's Death Day--
if ten people gather
ten different provinces
1825
Basho's Death-Day--
from noon on, open house
at the hut
1825
sneezing I take
another sake break...
sweeping soot
1825
in a package from Edo
new clothes...and I'm not
his dad!
1825
beautiful courtesan--
new clothes for her hometown's
Buddha
1825
the dog
braces himself...
snowball!
1825
the do-gooder reluctantly
begins...
his winter seclusion
1825
clowing around
with white charcoal...
the hermit
1825
giving up
won't fit in the box...
gallon of charcoal
1825
pufferfish soup--
all the houses
snoring together
1825
house of reeds
where plovers sleep
plastered with crap
1825
beach plovers
raise a ruckus...
the dog runs away
1825
my darling carries
a pufferfish...
bright moon
1825
entering Kyoto too
a bunch of sour-faced
pufferfish!
1825
with a radish
driving off a deer...
his field
1825
the little imp
totes one too...
radishes
1825
the bush warbler
ekes out a living...
fallen leaves
1825
killing frost--
the poor town stretches
foolishly long
1825
Musashi Plain--
in its standing water
Mount Fuji
1826
falling blossoms--
all at once
spring passes away
1826
spring breeze--
across the field a parade
of pale blue parasols
1826
timing his death
extremely well...
the Buddha
1826
observing well
this world of blossoms...
Buddha dies
1826
a bush warbler sings--
the empty palace
his field
1826
the baby swallow's
flying lesson...
off the horse's rump
1826
taming the flesh
he moves through thorns...
a frog
1826
hot tub steam
wafts softly, softly...
as does a butterfly
1826
some of them stick
to people, young grasses
at their peak
1826
cherry blossom shade--
no sleeping for me
feeling afraid
1826
the world today--
umbrella-hatted princes and paupers
blossom viewing
1826
imitating
the menacing dog...
blossom viewing
1826
mountain temple--
below where I sprawl
clouds of blossoms
1826
the price of grain
falls bitterly...
the heat
1826
garden at the gate--
a tailor-made
little cloudburst
1826
through a hole
you can see the lake...
billowing clouds
1826
making mountains rise
in the clouds...
cawing crow
1826
burning trash
in a field...
billowing clouds
1826
less high
than the sins of men...
billowing clouds
1826
lacking the good sense
to form billows...
rushing clouds
1826
cleaning the well--
on a stone a bottle
of sacred sake
1826
even cool air basking
not worth the bother...
moon at the gate
1826
grebe's floating nest
on one blade of grass...
depends
1826
safe and sound
in the healing hot spring
my arm's flea
1826
eager for my return
they gathered and gathered...
house-sitting fleas
1826
if not for moonflowers
the inn
would show
1826
let's go then
into the autumn evening
for our farewells
1826
in my sake cup
down the hatch!
the Milky Way
1826
old wall--
from whichever hole
autumn moon
1826
for the children
rice cakes while they gaze...
almost harvest moon
1826
secluded house--
in the mood tonight
to moon-gaze
1826
harvest moon--
even crabs claim
the name "Taira!"
1826
pretending to watch
the harvest moon...
rice field-gazing
1826
a world-healing
night of the 15th...
moon-gazing
1826
river by the gate--
thrown in a corner
the Ninth month moon
1826
dewdrops forming--
when might I become
grass...or a tree?
1826
by Bon lantern light
eating my rice...
naked
1826
Tanabata Night--
the well-behaved children
of beggar-town
1826
a face like he's
writing a star poem...
the frog
1826
cut grass--
not thinking it's autumn
playing a flute
1826
remote village--
among the grave lanterns
a katydid
1826
making the roadside
kettle shake...
yam's new sprout
1826
the puppy walks by
with a hat...
fallen leaf
1826
coming to the shelf
my mouth opens wide...
chocolate vine fruit
1826
snow flitting down--
the mountains of Shinano
aren't joking
1826
midwinter bathing--
a sickle moon curves
around his head
1826
my beloved cherry tree
cooked too...
making charcoal
1827
New Year's Day--
all of us in a corrupt world's
blossoms
1827
even the cart man
wears a courtier's hat...
plum blossoms
1827
flowing water spells
the character "heart"...
plum blossoms
1827
at the dinner
tray's edge...
a green rice field
1827
he circles his rice field
an open fan tucked
behind
1827
stuttering about
the olden days...
a cuckoo
1827
burned field--
they're becoming desperate
mosquito whines
1827
behind the morning glories
a hell
of fleas
1827
let it be
let it be! the flea
has children
1827
sweeping fleas
onto the highway...
moonlit night
1827
world of man--
in a little stone field
catching fleas
1827
world of man--
even walking on sand
picking up fleas
1827
on burnt ground
the fleas throw a wild
party
1827
after the fire--
the fleas throw a wild
party
1827
my skinny fleas
such cute darlings...
house-sitting
1827
growing fond
of splashing soup stock...
a cold night
1827
the naked party's
nakedness...
a cold night
1827
moon in the autumn dawn--
nearing month's end
lantern in the eaves
1827
my home village
at the end of that cloud...
autumn dusk
1827
at the shrine
children sumo wrestlers...
autumn wind
1827
pipe smoke blowing
it tastes like tobacco...
autumn wind
1827
on green reeds
in a row...
Bon Festival Buddhas
1827
Bon presents--
before long it'll be us
on the straw mat
1827
bonfires for the dead--
soon they'll burn
for us
1827
dawn of the month's
last day...
for Bon lanterns in the eaves
1827
one dies out
two die out...
lanterns for the dead
1827
borrowing the light
of bonfires spelling "Great"...
Buddha
1827
maiden flower
wriggle a bit more...
Tanabata night
1827
on Tanabata night
a field full of children...
plume grass
1827
after Tanabata Night's
coolness
a hot tub soak
1827
formidable--
on this rugged mountain
sumo grass
1827
sending fuzzy burrs
to Kyoto...
Tanba chestnuts
1827
the pony stepping
and crunching...
chestnuts in the field
1827
knocking chestnuts
out of the little garden...
thief cat!
1827
he's also in no mood
to sweep the snow...
scarecrow
1827
in a pitch-black
thicket too...
winter prayers
1827
even to the approaching dog
"Who's there?"
winter quilt
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