when everyone wants to sleep – reed-warblers the poignancy of closing autumn, whom to tell?

autumn wind – a figure standing alone fallen still garden plants

Splendid affinity sun’s great halo green leaves

Gratitude! tears melting into mountain snow

(“Soen”)

Straw sandals tossed aside approaching distant mountain slopes haze!

A nun has come to visit now in the moonlight how bright the icicles!

“Yamamoto”

A turtle is crying: All people are Stupid in the village Tire of hearing Worldly things: Winter confinement

The night of spring: An elbow-pillow On the desk Dividing the autumn sky Into two A huge chinquapin tree

(“Takahama”)

the sun set behind a traveling monk tall in the withered field

looking up what a high pagoda in the autumn sky many a time asking the height of the snow

locus fly low over rice paddies in the dim sun ray

(“Masaoka”)