Mukai Kyorai

“The late master said: "What will 'a monkey' do here? Tell me how you have come up with the conception of the poem." Kyorai replied: "I was thinking that the speaker, enjoying the bright moonlight, wanders in mountains and fields while reciting poems. At that moment he saw another poet under the cliff." The late master said: "It would add more furyu if you make here comes another companion of the moon' the poet's self-portrait, though this will make it a first-person poem.”

“'Yes, yes!' I answered,But someone still knocked At the snow-mantled gate”

“The cuckoo singsat right angleto the lark”

“Sadly I see the light fade on my palm: a firefly.”