Mizuta Masahide
Mizuta Masahide (水田 正秀, 1657–1723) was a seventeenth-century (Edo period) Japanese poet and samurai who studied under Matsuo Bashō.
Masahide practiced medicine in Zeze and led a group of poets who built the Mumyō Hut.[1][2]
Examples[]
Barn's burnt down
Barn's burnt down --
now
I can see the moon.
Alternate translation:[3]
Since my house burned down
I now own a better view
of the rising moon
When bird passes on
When bird passes on --
like moon,
a friend to water.
Masahide's Death Poem
while I walk on
the moon keeps pace beside me:
friend in the water
References[]
- ^ Ueda, Makoto. "Basho and His Interpreters." Stanford University Press. 1995. 342. Retrieved on April 14, 2009.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2010-06-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ http://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=rr
Categories:
- Samurai
- 1657 births
- 1723 deaths
- Japanese writers of the Edo period
- 17th-century Japanese poets
- Japanese writer stubs
- Asian poet stubs