"Going up to them, Not a pine-tree But has its bright moon."

"Earth and metal ... although my breathing ceases time and tide go on."

"The poet's name... is pronounced in two other ways : Watsujin and Atsujin although the true pronunciation of... is et…"

"Watsujin (1758–1836). A poet in the Kyo ̄tai tradition, Watsujin was a samurai from Sendai who wrote haiku under a va…"

"As if to say— "Isn't it true for men, as well: that the more the words, the less they are of value?"— the cuckoo does…"

"When I look upon the rich sheen of summer hairs in my new brush, I am saddened by a deer drawn at night to a hunter's…"

"I had forgotten— as I kept on forgetting to remind myself that those who vow to forget are the ones who can't forget."

"All these images from a world of long ago— of what good are they? Pine winds, come—please blow away these unforgotten…"

"Even in one’s sleep, it is dreams of this world one sees, and of no other; just as there is no dawning here that brin…"

"If one continues to compose poems of the sort that everyone else considers good, one must remain forever at that ordi…"