“Autumn Wind” by Matsuo Bashō

Japanese poet Bashō composed the following haiku in the fall of 1666.

An autumn wind blows
through the doorway’s yawning maw—
cold and cutting voice.

—Translated by David Bowles, March 2015

Original Japanese

aki kaze no
yarido no kuchi ya
togari-goe

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