Yosa Buson > Quotes

“Calligraphy of geese
against the sky-
the moon seals it.”
― Buson Yosa

“In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.”
― Yosa Buson

“Standing still at dusk
Listen . . . in far distances
The song of froglings!”
― Buson, Japanese Haiku

“You must remain. I must depart.
Two autumns falling in the heart.”
― Buson

“Of late the nights
are dawning
plum-blossom white.”
― Buson

“No trail to follow
where the teacher has wandered off-
the end of autumn.”
― Yosa Buson

“Lighting one candle
with another candle-
spring evening”
― Yosa Buson

“His Holiness the Abbot
is shitting
in the withered fields”
― Yosa Buson

“Chaque pétale qui tombe
Vieillit
Les branches du prunier”
― Yosa Buson, Printemps

“The behavior of the pigeon
is beyond reproach,
but the mountain cuckoo?”
― Yosa Buson, Haiku Master Buson

“Printemps qui s'en va
La beauté
Me trahit”
― Yosa Buson

“Un cerisier
Boude
Le printemps”
― Yosa Buson, Printemps

“Le printemps qui s'éloigne
hésite
parmi les derniers cerisiers”
― Yosa Buson

“sleeping
on the temple bell
a butterfly”
― Yosa Buson, Haiku

“草霞み水に声なき日暮かな”
― Yosa Buson