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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Ransetsu #school:Shōmon #school:Setsumon #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn (1900) ❖ Please feel welcome to play: cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "cicada" as a #dailyhaikuprompt! 🖤
あなかなし鳶にとらるる蝉の声 [嵐雪] ah how sad snatched up by a kite, cicada's cry Ransetsu (1654-1704) [tr. Dick Whyte]
November 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Kikaku #school:Shōmon #school:Edoza #era:1600s #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 🖤
隣から此木にくむやせみの声 [其角] this tree hated by my neighbor— cicadas sing Kikaku (tr. Dick Whyte)
March 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Otokuni #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:autumn #kigo:insects ❖ Source: #LafcadioHearn (1898) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "insect" or "fate" as a #dailyhaikuprompt 🖤
虫よ虫鳴いて因果が尽きるなら [川井乙州] insect! insect! crying as if it is possible to exhaust fate [Otokuni]
January 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Shōhei #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:spring #kigo:first-frogs ❖ 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! 🖤
降る雨の音より低し初蛙 [祥平] fainter than the sound of falling rain, first frogs [Shōhei]
January 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Ransetsu #school:Shōmon #school:Setsumon #era:1600s #kigo:spring #kigo:new-year ❖ Source: #BHChamberlain (1902) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haiku, or use the term "New Year" as a #dailyhaikuprompt! 🖤
元日や晴れてすずめのものがたり [嵐雪] new year's day-- about the sky clearing sparrows gossip (Ransetsu)
January 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:autumn #kigo:moon ❖ Source: #WGAston (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topics of 'moon' and/or 'temple' as a #dailyhaikuprompt! 🖤
井寺の門敲かばや今日の月 [芭蕉] let's go knock on the gates of Mii temple— tonight's moon (Bashō)
December 24, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:cicada ❖ Source: #WGAston (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topics of 'cicada' and/or 'death' as a #dailyhaikuprompt! 🖤
やがて死ぬけしきは見えず蝉の声 [芭蕉] no clue they're already dying, cicadas chirp (Bashō) やがて死ぬけしきは見えず蝉の声 [芭蕉] soon to die but showing no sign of it, cicada's cry (Bashō)
December 22, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:spring #kigo:wisteria ❖ Source: #WGAston (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topics of 'wisteria' and/or 'travel' as a #dailyhaikuprompt! 🖤
草臥れて宿借るころや藤の花 [芭蕉] worn out time to find an inn— wisterias (Bashō)
December 19, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:autumn #kigo:autumn-dusk ❖ Source: #WGAston (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topics of 'autumn' and/or 'dusk' as a #dailyhaikuprompt! 🖤
かれ朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮 [芭蕉] on a dead branch the crow has perched, autumn dusk (Bashō) かれ朶に烏のとまりけり秋の暮 [芭蕉] crows alight on a withered branch, autumn sunset (Bashō)
December 18, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:autumn #kigo:dew #kigo:bush-clover ❖ Source: #WGAston (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topics of 'dew' or 'clover' as prompts! 🖤
白露もこぼさぬ萩のうねり哉 [芭蕉] white dew not one drop spilled . . . swaying clover (Bashō)
December 12, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:spring #kigo:blossoms ❖ Source: #WGAston (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topic of 'blossoms' as a prompt! 🖤
花の雲鐘は上野か浅草か [芭蕉] blossom cloud is the bell from Ueno? Asakusa? (Bashō)
December 10, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:spring #kigo:frog ❖ Sources: #Shiki #LafcadioHearn #BHChamberlain #WGAston (1892-1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topic of 'frog' as a prompt! 🖤
古池や蛙飛び込む水の音 [芭蕉] old mere! a frog jumping in sound of water (Bashō) 古池や蛙飛び込む水の音 [芭蕉] old pond--frogs jumping in--sound of water (Bashō) 古池や蛙飛び込む水の音 [芭蕉] old pond-- frog leaps water's sound (Bashō) 古池や蛙飛び込む水の音 [芭蕉] old pond-- a frog hops in splash (Bashō)
December 4, 2024 at 6:35 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:autumn #kigo:autumn-wind ❖ Source: #BHChamberlain (1898-99) ❖ Based on a Chinese proverb: “Don't speak of other's faults, don't brag about yourself.” ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku, or reply in haiku! 🖤
物言えば唇寒し秋の風 [芭蕉] if i speak my lips grow cold, autumn wind (Bashō) 物言えば唇寒し秋の風 [芭蕉] talk shit cold lips: autumn wind (Bashō)
December 1, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Danrin #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:winter #kigo:first-snow ❖ Source: #WGAston (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topic of 'first snow' as a prompt! 🖤 #dailyhaikuprompt
初雪や水仙の葉のたわむ迄 [芭蕉] first snow— just enough to bend daffodil leaves (Bashō)
November 30, 2024 at 7:25 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Kikaku #school:Shōmon #school:Edoza #era:1600s #kigo:winter #kigo:first-snow ❖ Source: #WGAston, 'A History of Japanese Literature' (1899) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, or reply in haikai form! 🖤 #dailyhaikuprompt
初雪や内に居さうな人は誰 [其角] first snow--what kind of person sits indoors? (Kikaku) 初雪や内に居さうな人は誰 [其角] first snow-- someone stays inside who is it?! (Kikaku)
November 29, 2024 at 9:13 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:summer-grass ❖ Source: #BHChamberlain (1898-99) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, reply in haikai, or use the topic of war as a prompt! 🖤
夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 [芭蕉] summer grasses— of those warriors' dreams all that remains (Bashō) 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 [芭蕉] summer grass—traces of dreams of soldiers (Bashō)
November 29, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:autumn #kigo:dragonfly ❖ source: #BHChamberlain, (1889) ❖ In reply to Kikaku's verse: red dragonfly | pluck off its wings: | red-pepper ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, or reply in haikai! 🖤
唐辛子羽根を付けたら赤トンボ [芭蕉] pepper-pod sew on some wings: red dragonfly (Bashō)
November 26, 2024 at 7:19 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Kikaku #school:Shōmon #school:Edoza #era:1600s #kigo:autumn #kigo:dragonfly ❖ source: #BHChamberlain (1889) ❖ Illustration: Kitagawa Utamaro, 画本虫撰 (Picture Book of Crawling Creatures, 1788) ❖ Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, or reply in haikai form! 🖤
赤トンボ 羽根を取ったら唐辛子 [其角] red dragonfly pluck off its wings, pepper-pod (Kikaku) Kitagawa Utamaro illustration of a red dragonfly
November 26, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Bashō #school:Teimon #school:Shōmon #era:1600s #kigo:autumn #kigo:morning-glory || source: #DavidBarnhill, 'Bashō's Haiku' (2004) || Please feel welcome to cap the hokku to make a tan'renga, or reply in haikai. 🖤
朝顔に我は飯食ふ男かな [芭蕉] a man eating rice among morning glories . . . that's who i am (Bashō)
November 24, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:Kikaku #school:Shōmon #school:Edoza #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:summer-rain || source: #其角発句集 (Rough Edges Hokku Collection, 1933)
ゆふだちに鶯あつく嗚く音かな [其角] summer shower a bush warbler fervidly . . . crying, crying (Kikaku)
November 23, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:kikaku #school:shōmon #school:edoza #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:summer-rain || source: #其角発句集 (Rough Edges: Collected Hokku of Kikaku, 1933)
夕だちや家をめぐりて鳴く家鴨 [其角] summer shower— rushing round the house ducks quack (Kikaku)
November 23, 2024 at 2:35 AM
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#俳句 #haiku #poet:kikaku #school:shōmon #school:edoza #era:1600s #kigo:summer #kigo:summer-rain || source: #WGAston, 'A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language' (1877) [1693]
夕立や田を見めぐりの神ならば [其角] if there's a god watching over the ricefields— summer shower (Kikaku)
November 22, 2024 at 9:36 PM