Straw sandal half sunk
in an old pond
in the sleety snow.
in an old pond
in the sleety snow.

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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