Haiku by Basho. From "Narrow Road to Oku"
In oldern days, travelers wore hats, and the travel companions wrote their names on their hats. When Sora, Basho's companion, parted, Basho erased Sora's name from his hat. In this haiga, I tried to symbolically represent the parting.
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3 comments:
Beautiful illustration - looks like a mourning dove.
Linda
"sangham saranam gacchami"...for you!
I do not understand "sangham saranam gacchami". Are they spanish?
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