Haibun by the Japanese Masters

 

Matsuo Bashō, Hiraizumi, from Oku no Hosomichi, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, prose translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa, haiku translated by L. Stryk.

Issa Kobayashi, Untitled First Haibun, from Oraga Haru (The Year of My Life or The Spring of My Life), two translations by Nobuyuki Yuasa and Sam Hamill.