"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"

"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"

"How I delight in this well-timed snow that buries the mountain path behind me as I enter intent on long seclusion"

"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…"