Yosa Buson (1716 - 1784)

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Yosa Buson was a Japanese haiku poet and painter. He ranked second only to Matsuo Bashoa, Japanese master of haiku, among poets of the Edo or Tokugawa period (1600-1868). Buson was born in a suburb of Osaka, Japan, and apparently lost both parents while he was still young. In 1737 he moved to Edo (now Tokyo) to study painting and haiku poetry in the tradition of Basho. After the death of one of his poetry teachers in 1742, he toured northern areas associated with Basho and visited western Jap.. Continue..

Some of Yosa Buson Poems

Variations on 'The short night

A bat flits

Lighting one candle

Harvest moon

Early summer rain

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