I’ve seen the bogie’s veritable Shape:— it’s merely withered grass.

Yokoi Yayū

化物の　生躰見たり　枯をばな

bakemono no · shōtai mitari · kare-obana

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 349; lines re-broken