{"id":5041,"date":"2004-09-30T14:58:52","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T18:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/09\/30\/the-other-haiku-moon-masters\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:23","slug":"the-other-haiku-moon-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/09\/30\/the-other-haiku-moon-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"the other haiku moon masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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the haiku of the two other great classical Japanese haijin, Basho and Buson.  As<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the harvest moon wanes, I want to share an example of moon haiku from each of <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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by Yosa Buson<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><\/EM>   (1716 – 1783)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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from <\/FONT>Haiku: The Poetry of Zen (Box of Zen)
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by Matsuo Basho<\/FONT><\/A> <\/STRONG><\/EM>(1644 – 1694)<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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     Harvest moon–<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/EM><\/DIV>
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\"monkey  and a non-lunar Basho bonus:<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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 (translated by Robert Hass<\/FONT><\/A><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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