間 Ma

Spring · Blossoms · 桜 sakura

The nightingale and, at the gate, The unexpected bean-curd vendor.

Shida Yaba

uguisu ya · kado wa tamatama · tōfu-uri

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 336; lines re-broken

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