Ploughing the land

Yosa Buson 1716 (Settsu Province) – 1783



Ploughing the land--
not even a bird singing
in the mountain's shadow.
    

Translated by Robert Hass

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 105
Words 18
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1

Yosa Buson

Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. more…

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