Matsuo Basho poems
Matsuo Basho(1644 - 1694 / Iga Province / Japan)
A cicada shell
- by Matsuo Basho 149
A cicada shell;it sang itself
utterly away.
Translated by R.H. Blyth
A weathered skeleton
- by Matsuo Basho 111
A weathered skeletonin windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife