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Take a nap
Making the mountain water
Pound the rice.

There is no stranger under the cherry tree.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

Here
I'm here-
the snow falling.

In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger.

A world of grief and pain
Flowers bloom
Even then

Even in warmest
glow
how cold my shadow

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!

Arise from sleep, old cat, And with great yawns and stretchings ... Amble out for love

All the time I pray to Buddha I keep on killing mosquitoes.

Hey sparrows
no pissing on my old
winter quilt!

Don't weep, insects
Lovers, stars themselves,
Must part.

What a strange thing!
to be alive
beneath cherry blossoms.

This dewdrop world
Is but a dewdrop world
And yet -

In the city fields
Contemplating cherry-trees ...
Strangers are like friends

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew ... so dear, So fresh, so fleeting

Red morning sky - snail, are you glad of it?

Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.

Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.

Even with insects - some can sing, some can't.

Don't kill! ...
The fly is asking you
To save his life
By rubbing his hands together

Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.

Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow

Giddy grasshopper
Take care ... do not leap and crush
These pearls of dewdrop

Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning

Hi! My little hut
Is newly-thatched I see ...
Blue morning-glories

Summer night
even the stars
are whispering to each other.

Listen, all creeping things, the bell of transience.

The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet

Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel.

Reflected
in the dragonfly's eye --
mountains.

Moon, plum blossoms, this, that, and the day goes