Ploughing the land--
not even a bird singing
in the mountain's shadow.
not even a bird singing
in the mountain's shadow.

1716 - 1783/JapaneseYosa Buson, or Yosa no Buson (与謝蕪村), was a Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period. Buson was born in the village of Kema in…
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