Four Haiku by Yosa Buson
and a woman in moonlight
reading a letter.
Coming back—
so many pathways
through the spring grass.
The short night—
the peony
has opened.
The two plum trees—
I love their blooming!
one early, one later.
(Translations by Robert Hass)
"Koshigaya in Musashi Province," 1858, Ando Hiroshige, from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji
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