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Yosa Buson
(1716 - 1784 / Osaka / Japan)
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Leading haiku poet of the late 18th century and, with Basho and Issa, one of the great names in haiku. Also known as Yosa Buson or Taniguchi Buson. Also a distinguished Bunjinga(literati-style) painter, he perfected haiga ("haiky sketch") as a branch of Japanese pictorial art. His best-known paintin .. .. more >>
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1     A bat flits
2     Before the white chrysanthemum
3     Blow of an ax
4     Blown from the west
5     Buying leeks
6     Calligraphy of geese
7     Coolness
8     Dawn
9     Early summer rain
10     Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju
11     Evening wind
12     Harvest moon
13     He's on the porch
14     His Holiness the Abbot
15     Hokku Poems in Four Seasons
16     Lighting one candle
17     Listening to the moon
18     My arm for a pillow
19     Not quite dark yet
20     Old well
21     Ploughing the land
22     Sparrow singing
23     Straw sandal half sunk
24     The behavior of the pigeon
25     The end of spring
 

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