Haiku and Waka Scrolls

Abe no Nakamaro - Looking up far across the sky, The moon that rose over Mount Mikasa at Kasuga天の原ふりさけ見れば春日なるama no hara furisake mireba kasuga naru mikasa no yama ni ideshi tsuki kamo

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Bashō - A rough sea: lying toward Sado, the Milky Way荒海や佐渡によこたふ天河araumi ya sado ni yokotau amanogawa

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Bashō - As the temple bell fades, The ringing lingers in the blossom scent, Evening鐘消えて花の香は撞く夕べ哉kane kiete hana no ka wa tsuku yūbe kana

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Bashō - Gathering the early-summer rains, swift: the Mogami River五月雨をあつめて早し最上川samidare o atsumete hayashi mogamigawa

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Bashō - How admirable, to see lightning, and not think life is fleeting稲妻にさとらぬ人の貴さよinazuma ni satoranu hito no tattosa yo

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Bashō - In the plum blossom scent, the sun pops out, a mountain path梅が香にのっと日の出る山路かなmume ga ka ni notto hi no deru yamaji kana

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Bashō - Not spilling the glistening dew, the bush clover, undulating白露をこぼさぬ萩のうねりかなshiratsuyu o kobosanu hagi no uneri kana

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Bashō - On the back of the mirror, A spring unseen, A flowering plum-tree人も見ぬ春や鏡のうらの梅hito mo minu haru ya kagami no ura no ume

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Bashō - Shake even the grave, My wailing is the autumn wind塚も動け我が泣聲は秋の風tsuka mo ugoke waga naku koe wa aki no kaze

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Bashō - Stillness: the cicada's voice seeps into the rocks閑さや岩にしみ入蝉の声shizukasa ya iwa ni shimiiru semi no koe

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Bashō - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams夏草や兵どもが夢の跡natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato

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Bashō - Taken ill on my travels, My dreams roam over the withered moors旅に病んで夢は枯野をかけ廻るtabi ni yande yume wa kareno o kakemeguru

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Bashō - The old pond, a frog jumps in, the sound of water古池や蛙飛込水の音furu ike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

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Buson - A flash of lightning, The sound of dew, Dripping down the bamboos稲妻にこぼるる音や竹の露inazuma ni koboruru oto ya take no tsuyu

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Buson - An evening orchid, Hidden in its scent, The flower's whiteness夜の蘭香にかくれてや花白しyoru no ran ka ni kakurete ya hana shiroshi

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Buson - From far and near, Hearing the sounds of waterfalls, Young leavesをちこちに滝の音聞く若葉哉ochikochi ni taki no oto kiku wakaba kana

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Buson - In loneliness, there is joy too, An autumn eveさびしさのうれしくも有秋の暮sabishisa no ureshiku mo ari aki no kure

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Buson - In the moonlight, the color and scent of the wisteria, seems so far away月に遠くおぼゆる藤の色香かなtsuki ni tōku oboyuru fuji no iroka kana

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Buson - In the spring rain, The pond and the river, Have become one池と川ひとつになりぬ春の雨ike to kawa hitotsu ni narinu haru no ame

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Buson - Plum blossoms everywhere, I should go south, I should go north梅遠近南すべく北すべくume ochikochi minami subeku kita subeku

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Buson - Rapeseed flowers: the moon in the east, the sun in the west菜の花や月は東に日は西にna no hana ya tsuki wa higashi ni hi wa nishi ni

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Buson - The long slow days of spring, piling up, so far away the past遅き日のつもりて遠き昔かなosoki hi no tsumorite tōki mukashi kana

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Buson - The spring sea, all day rising and falling, rising and falling春の海終日のたりのたり哉haru no umi hinemosu notari notari kana

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Buson - To white plum blossoms, Each night just dawning, Evermore白梅に明る夜ばかりとなりにけりshiraume ni akuru yo bakari to nari ni keri

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Chiyojo - My little dragonfly hunter, where has he gone today, I wonder蜻蛉釣り今日はどこまで行ったやらtonbo-tsuri kyō wa doko made itta yara

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Chiyojo - The morning glory has taken the well bucket, so I borrow water朝顔に釣瓶とられてもらい水asagao ni tsurube torarete moraimizu

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Chiyojo - To the person breaking off the branch, giving its fragrance, the plum blossom手折らるゝ人に薫るや梅の花taoraruru hito ni kaoru ya ume no hana

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Custom Haiku Calligraphy

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Issa - A world of grief and pain, Flowers bloom, Even then苦の娑婆や桜が咲けば咲いたとてku no shaba ya sakura ga sakeba saita tote

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Issa - In this world of ours, We walk above hell, Gazing at flowers世の中は地獄の上の花見哉yo no naka wa jigoku no ue no hanami kana

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Issa - Skinny frog, don't lose: Issa is hereやせ蛙負けるな一茶これにありyasegaeru makeru na issa kore ni ari

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Issa - Snail, ever so slowly climb, Mt Fuji蝸牛そろそろ登れ富士の山katatsuburi sorosoro nobore fuji no yama

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Issa - The bitter part, eaten by the mother, mountain persimmon澁いとこ母が喰ひけり山の柿shibui toko haha ga kui keri yama no kaki

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Issa - The snow melts, and the village is full of children雪とけて村一ぱいの子どもかなyuki tokete mura ippai no kodomo kana

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Issa - This dewdrop world, is a dewdrop world, and yet露の世は露の世ながらさりながらtsuyu no yo wa tsuyu no yo nagara sari nagara

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Issa - Were my father here, At dawn we would gaze, Over the green fields父ありてあけぼのみたし青田原chichi arite akebono mitashi aotabara

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Ki no Tomonori - On a calm spring day of gentle light, Why do the blossoms fall so restlessly?久方の光のどけき春の日にhisakata no hikari nodokeki haru no hi ni shizugokoro naku hana no chiruramu

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Ransetsu - One plum blossom: one blossom's worth of warmth梅一輪一輪ほどの暖かさume ichirin ichirin hodo no atatakasa

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Ryōkan - The thief, left behind, the moon in my window盗人にとり残されし窓の月nusubito ni torinokosareshi mado no tsuki

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Ryōta - They spoke no words, The visitor the host, And the white chrysanthemumものいはず客と亭主と白菊とmono iwazu kyaku to teishu to shiragiku to

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Shiki - A pear tree is blooming, By a collapsed house, on an old battlefield梨さくや戦のあとの崩れ家nashi saku ya ikusa no ato no kuzure ie

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Shiki - As I eat a persimmon, a bell rings: Hōryūji柿食えば鐘が鳴るなり法隆寺kaki kueba kane ga naru nari hōryūji

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Shiki - Lifting up the hatchet, To cut it down, It was budding鉈あげてきらんとすれば木の芽かなnata agete kiran to sureba konome kana

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Shiki - Three thousand, Haiku to examine, Two persimmons三千の俳句を閲し柿二つsanzen no haiku o kemishi kaki futatsu

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Shikō - How enviable, Turning beautiful then falling, maple leavesうらやまし美しう成て散る紅葉urayamashi utsukushū natte chiru momiji

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Sodō - Green leaves for the eye, the mountain cuckoo, the first bonito目には青葉山ほととぎす初鰹me ni wa aoba yama hototogisu hatsugatsuo

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