for Basho
alone by the pond
frog song
lost in frog song
入賞句 (Prize-Winning Haiku), Fifth Japan-Russia Haiku Contest, 2016 ; Akita -- The Land of Poetry, 8, October 2016
Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta, Founder of Akita
池のそばで独り
蛙の歌が蛙の歌に消える
To the Lighthouse: Jisei, Japanese Death Poems
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Thematically and religiously speaking, the death poem (jisei in Japanese)
is a genre of poetry that has historically developed in the literary
traditions o...
