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The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.

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Flower Myself Sound Stop Temple
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Clear Conscious Purity Realize Service Water Yourself
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.
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Garden Hope Kindness Pay
Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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A flute with no holes is not a flute.
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Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.
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Old pond, leap-splash – a frog.
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Frog Old
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