Nozawa Bonchō

naganaga to
kawa hito suji ya
yuki no hara

The long, long river
A single line
On the snowy plain
...

mono no oto
hitori taoruru
kagashi kana

A sound of something!
The scarecrow has fallen down
of itself.
...

kiri no ki no
kaze ni kamawanu
ochiba kana

When no wind at all
...

Throwing away the ashes,
The white plum-blossoms
Became cloudy.
...

Love.
So many different ways
to have been in love.
...

A razor,
Rusted in a single night,-
The summer rains!
...

wasgu bi sy bi
kusu no kare e ni
hi wa irinu

At an eagle's nest
...

Ichinaka wa
mono no nioi ya
natsu no tsuki

Around the town
...

How cool cut hay smells
when carried through the farm gate
as the sun comes up
...

kasamura ni
kawazu kowagaru
yumagure

Frightened by a thicket
...

All night the ragged
clouds and wind had only one
companion... the moon

To ranging winds
...

The brushwood,
Though cut for fuel,
Is beginning to bud.
...

a shrike's cry
light slants through
the red pine grove
...