Enzo 99

Blossoms at night
And the faces of people
Moved by music

Issa

Enzo 92

Not knowing
it's a tub they're in
The fish cooling at the gate

Issa

This seemed to me to wonderfully encapsulate the human condition.

Enzo 89

Children imitating cormorants
are even more wonderful
than cormorants.


Translated by Robert Hass

by Kobayashi Issa

Enzo 81

Even with insects -
Some can sing
Some can't

Issa

Enzo 78

O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly slowly!

Issa

Enzo 57

An evening orchid,
Hidden in it's scent
The flower's whiteness.

Buson

Enzo 56

Furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

Basho

old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound

Translated by William J. Higginson

Perhaps the most famous haiku by Matsuo Bashô

Enzo 47

The moon's the same old moon,
The flowers exactly as they were,
Yet I've become the thingness
Of all the things I see!

-   Bunan

Enzo 34

Along this road
Goes no one
This autumn evening

Basho

Enzo 33

From time to time
The clouds give rest
To the moon beholders

Basho