A sabre! what has such to do On one who comes to view the flowers?

Mukai Kyorai

何事ぞ 花みる人の 長刀

nanigoto zo · hana miru hito no · naga-gatana

Trans. B. H. Chamberlain, Bashō and the Japanese Poetical Epigram (1902), p. 330; lines re-broken