Seek on high bare trails
sky-reflecting violets
mountain-top jewels

Matsuo Bashō
松尾 芭蕉

The hills cast shadows
and pampas grass is swaying
in sunlit meadows

Yosa Buson
与謝 蕪村

It’s the sun
in each field that brings
such longing

Matsuo Basho
松尾 芭蕉

Yellow-earth and azure-heaven thread
and reds bright
as the sun

Shih Ching
诗经

Butterfly
what dreams does it see
fanning its wings

Chiyo-ni
福田 千代尼

For winds
to blow clouds and mist
from the mountain moon

Hosokawa Fujitaka
細川 藤孝