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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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Spring rain conveyed under the trees in drops.
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Drop Spring Tree
How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Desire Flower Moon Myself
The journey itself is my home.
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Home Journey Myself
From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.
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Fall Food Tree
First snow-falling-on the half-finished bridge.
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Bridge Fall Snow
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
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Moon Myself Night Water
When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
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Breathe Compose Dangerous Enemy Fall Hairs Mindset Tree Writing
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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Deep Seek Teaching Wisdom
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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Oneself Solitude Sound Wind Winter
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
Poverty’s child – he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.
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Children Moon Poverty Start
Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water – A deep resonance.
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Break Deep Frog Resonate Silence Water
The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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Animal Call Darkness Sea White Wild
A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Memories Skeleton
Old pond, frog jumps in – plop.
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Old Pond
Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves.
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Be Yourself Identity Imitation Myself Original

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