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Three Spring Haiku
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Kobayashi Issa
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Spring breeze—
the pine on the ridge
whispers it

(trans. David G. Lanoue)
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Kobayashi Issa (1804)
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Steam on the bay
past midday...
spring rain

(trans. David G. Lanoue)
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Kobayashi Issa (1818)
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Licking a bamboo leaf’s
spring rain...
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(trans. David G. Lanoue)
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