Solocrow — One Crow Against the World

Karasu

Posted on May 8th, 2007 by solocrow.
Categories: Dead Poets, Generic Blatherings.

Kareeda ni
Karasu no tomarikeri
Aki no kure

On the dead limb
squats a crow –
autumn night.

~ A haiku from Matsuo Basho (1664-1694).

Image: Crows, 1766; pair of six-fold screens; ink and gold on paper by Maruyama Okyo (like Basho, also from the Edo period).

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