🐌 Overhearing Issa’s Conversations With Creatures 🌌

from the tea water
flume also comes…
a firefly

– Kobayashi Issa

Translation by David G. Lanoue

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🏞️ Seeking Bashō Along Sumida River 🍃

how touching
to exist after the storm
chrysanthemum

– Matsuo Bashō

Translation by Jane Reichhold

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chasing flies
is a two-person job…
widow

– Kobayashi Issa

Translation by David G. Lanoue

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plum scent
suddenly the sun comes out
on a mountain road

– Matsuo Bashō

Translation by Jane Reichhold

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night fishing–
the pleading
of a katydid

– Kobayashi Issa

Translation by David G. Lanoue

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exciting
but sad when it is over
cormorant boats

– Matsuo Bashō

Translation by Jane Reichhold

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hey butterfly
move aside!
bath water’s splashing

– Kobayashi Issa

Translation by David G. Lanoue

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both weary
taking lodging at the same time
wisteria flowers

– Matsuo Bashō

Translation by Jane Reichhold

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the trout too
hit their peak young…
Yoshino River

– Kobayashi Issa

Translation by David G. Lanoue

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