(1644–1694)
Japanese poet
Matsuo Bashō
Year’s end, all
corners of this
floating world, swept.
On Love and Barley: Haiku of Bashō (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985), 59.
With a hat on my head
And straw sandals on my feet,
I met on the road
The end of the year.
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and Other Travel Sketches (New York: Penguin, 1966), 60.