Arimaru

Running shallow
with a year's end sound:
river rapids.

Kawa no seni
shiwasu no oto no
nagareki

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Asei

Flowers of the grass:
scarcely shown, and withered
name and all.

Nora ni saku
na wa kore made zo
kusa no hana

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Atsujin

Earth and metal...
although my breathing ceases
time and tide go on.

Tsuchi kane ya
iki wa taete mo
tsukihi ari

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Baiko

Plum petals falling
I look up...the sky,
a clear crisp moon.

Chiru ume ni
miaguru sora no
tsuki kiyoshi

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Baisei

Island of Eternity:
a turtle dries its shell out
in the rays of a new sun.

Horai ya
Kame mo ko hosu
hatsu-hinata

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Banzan

Farewell...
I pass as all things do
dew on the grass.

Mame de iyo
mi wa narawashi no
kusa no tsuyu

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Basho

On a journey, ill:
my dream goes wandering
over withered fields.

Tabi ni yande
yume wa kareno o
kakemeguru

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Bokusui

A parting word?
The melting snow
is odorless.

Jisei nado
zansetsu ni ka mo
nakarikeri

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Chiboku

The running stream
is cool...the pebbles
underfoot.

Yuku mizu to
tomo ni suzushiku
ishi kawa ya

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Chikuro

Butterflies in flight:
the journey's end...
Suma Akashi

Cho tobu ya
miatesshi tabi wa
Suma Akashi

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Chirin

In earth and sky
no grain of dust...
snow on the foothills.

Ametsuchi ni
chiri naki yuki no
fumoto kana

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Chogo

I long for people...
then again I loathe them:
end of autumn.

Hito koishi
hito mutsukashishi
aki no kure

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Choko

This final scene I'll not see
to the end...my dream
is fraying.

Sue ikki
mi hatenu yume no
hotsure kana

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Dohaku

Cargoless,
bound heavenward,
ship of the moon

Tsumimono ya
nakute jodo e
tsuki no fune

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Enryo

Autumn waters
of this world wake me
from my drunkenness.

Yoizame no
kore ya konoyo no
aki no mizu

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Fufu

My companion in the skies
of death,
a cuckoo.

Tsure mo ari
imawa no sora no
hototogisu

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Fukyu

A bright and pleasant
autumn day to make
death's journey.

Kokochiyoshi
aki no hiyori o
shide no tabi

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Fuso

Upon the lotus flower
morning dew is
thinning out.

Asatsuyu no
usura kiekeri
hasu no hana

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Gansan

Blow if you will,
fall wind...the flowers
have all faded.

Fukaba fuke
hana was sunda zo
aki no kaze

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Ginka

I leap from depths
of debt into the skies:
autumn of the dragon.

Shakusen no
fuchi kara tenjo
tatsu no aki

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Gokei

Fields dying off:
the underside of grasses frozen
hour of my death.

Kiete yuku
no mo uragare no
hotoke kana
Courtyard