Category: Yosa no Buson 与謝 蕪村

負まじき角力を寝ものがたり哉　　　　　　 maku majiki sumai o nemono gatari kana (1768) “Shouldn’t have lost”A sumo wrestlerIn bed grumbling.

ころもかえいたけなき子の田むしかな koromogae itake naki kono ta mushi kana The season of changing clothes;you see the ringwormon the beloved infant.

傘も化けて目のある月夜哉 karakasa mo bakete me no aru tsukiyo kana my umbrella, too becomes a one-eyed monster this moonlit night

寒月や小石のさはる沓の底 kangetsuya koishi no sawaru kutsu no soko A winter moon!Feeling the small pebblesunder my shoes.

蜻蛉や眼鏡をかけて飛歩行 kagerō ya megane o kakete tobiaruki flying around with his glasses on a dragonfly

岩倉の狂女恋せよほととぎす Iwakura no kyōjo koiseyo hototogisu Little cuckoo there is a mad womanat the Iwakura waterfallyou could fall in love with her

いかだしの蓑やあらしの華ころも ikadashi no mino ya arashi no hanagoromo The raftsman’s raincoat–a dress of stormycherry blossom

畑うつや道問う人の見えずなりぬ hatautsuya michi tou hitono miezunarinu Plowing the fields–Someone who asked the wayIs no longer in sight.

春の海終日のたりのたり哉 harunoumi hinemosu notarinotarikana (circa 1757) The sea of spring,Rising and falling,All the day long.

歯あらはに筆の氷を噛ム夜哉歯あらわに筆の氷を噛む夜かな ha arawani fude no kōri wo kamu yo kana With exposed teeththe ice on the writing brushis bitten off tonight.