"The pathway I marked when last year I made my way into Yoshino— I abandon now to visit blossoms I have not yet seen."

"Even a person free of passion would be moved to sadness: autumn evening in a marsh where snipes fly up."

"Let me not spend my life lamenting the world’s sorrows for above in the wide sky the moon shines pure"

"That spring long ago at Naniwa in Tsu— was it all a dream? Now only dead leaves on the reeds rustle in the passing wind."

"What's to be done? I thought I was past caring for the spring but my frozen water pipe has made me long for it again"

"That one back home whom I promised to think about when I saw the moon: on this night perhaps she too will be soaking …"

"This is what I want: to die in the springtime, beneath the blossoms— midway through the Second Month, when the moon i…"

"In a dream I saw the winds of spring scattering the cherry blossoms— and after I woke, the sound was still rustling i…"

"The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom."

"It creates a heart even in those among us who think of themselves as indifferent to all things— the world. this first…"