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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:autumn #kigo:moon ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the terms "gravestone" or "moon" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
墓にそそぐ水やむかしの月の影 pouring water upon the gravestone— old moonlight (Anon) [tr. Dick Whyte]
February 28, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:spring #kigo:spring-grass || source: #WGAston, 'A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language' (1877)
人にこそ年はよりぬれ春の草 [無名] us humans we age and get older, spring grass (Anon)
November 22, 2024 at 12:08 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:autumn #kigo:fog || source: #WGAston, 'A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language' (1877)
霧の海いづこへ富士はしづみぬる [無名] foggy sea whither has it sunk? mount fuji (Anon)
November 22, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:spring #kigo:frog #kigo:mountain-rose ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1898) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the terms "frog" and/or "rose" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
山吹のうつる沼水なくかはづ mountain roses reflected in the marsh water, frogs singing [unknown]
January 21, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:autumn ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the terms "autumn" or "bell" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
秋行くと告ぐるにや鐘遠くより [無名] announcing autumn's departure— distant bell (Anon) [tr. Dick Whyte]
March 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
松の木に沁みこむ如し蝉の声 [無名] as if sinking into the pine trees, cicada's voice (Anon) [tr. Dick Whyte]
March 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Anon #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1900) ❖ Sometimes incorrectly attrobuted to Bashō ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
声に皆鳴しまうてや蝉の殻 it cried till it became all voice— cicada shell [Anon] (tr. Dick Whyte)
March 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:spring #kigo:butterfly ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "butterfly" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
蝶々に去年死したる妻恋し two butterflies . . . last year my dear wife died
February 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:spring #kigo:frog ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1898) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the terms "frog" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
田から田へ聲の續くや鳴く蛙 [無名] endless singing from ricefield to ricefield— the cries of frogs [unknown]
January 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:spring #kigo:blossoms ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1898) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "blossoms" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
花散るや蛙のこゑの香に匂ふ [無名] blossoms scatter— scent of the frog's voice perfumed [Anon]
January 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:spring #kigo:frog ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1898) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "frog" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
大空ヘ何か言ひ出す蛙かな [無名] big sky first to say something . . . the frog [Anonymous]
February 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:autumn #kigo:paulownia ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "gravestone" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
風そよと墓石へ桐の一葉かな [無名] slight breeze above the gravestone . . . paulownia leaf (Anon) [tr. Dick Whyte]
February 27, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Anon #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn (1900) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku form, or use "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
あの声で露が命かあぶらぜみ [?] with that voice is your life brief as dew? brown cicada Anon. [tr. Dick Whyte]
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:spring #kigo:frogs ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1898) ❖ Possibly Goun (1699-1772), who was the student of Sakumon Chōsūi. Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "frog" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
田の蛙水が鳴くかと思ひけり [一笠庵] ricefield frogs “is it the water singing?” i wondered [Ichikasaan?]
February 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #era:1800s #kigo:autumn #kigo:insects ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "insects" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
ふるさとに父母あり虫の声々 my parents in their home village, insects chirping! chirping! (Anon) [tr. Dick Whyte]
February 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:spring #kigo:frog ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1898) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the terms "frog" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
船さへも留める堀江の蛙かな [無名] even the boat stopped in place . . . canal frogs [unknown]
January 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #kigo:summer #kigo:mount-fuji ❖ source: #LafcadioHearn (1898) ❖ proverbial hokku ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "mountain" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
来てみればさほどまでなし富士の山 [無名] came to see it's not up to much, Mount Fuji [unknown]
January 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:anon #school:Teimon #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:cuckoo || Source: #BHChamberlain, 'A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese' (1889) || Painting: Ohara Shōson (c. 1900) || Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, or reply in haikai. 🖤
A painting of a cuckoo with the moon and clouds さてはあの月が啼いたか時鳥 [無名] say what? the moon cried out!? a cuckoo
November 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Chō'un #poet:anon #kigo:winter #kigo:winter-wind ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn, 'Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan' (1894) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the translations as a prompt! 🖤
こがらしやかみのみゆきのやまのあと cold wind—gods parade the mountain ruins (Chō'un) こがらしやかみのみゆきのやまのあと winter wind— at the mountain ruins visiting gods (Chō'un)
November 29, 2024 at 11:07 AM