April 23, 2009

Haiga 200


Haiku by Matsuo Basho, from "Narrow Road to a Far Province(Oku)"
Basho wrote this haiku when he visited Nikko mountain and Nikko Shrine of Tokugawa Shogunate.
English translation is by Dorothy Britton.

4 comments:

Linda Brazeau said...

Beautifully done.
Linda

John McDonald said...

i agree
john

bandit said...

Wow!...beautiful morning

kuni_san said...

As I wrote somewhere in this blog, I am working on Basho's haiku now. There are 57 haiku in "Narrow Road to the Far province". I have made about a half of them, and will show one by one on this blog, so stay turned.