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“Moon” by Saiba

David Bowles May 17, 2015 August 5, 2015Japanese, Translations death, haiku, saiba, zen 0

Saiba was a Zen Buddhist monk who wrote this jisei or death haiku as he sensed his end approach in the fall of 1858. He finally died on the night of the harvest moon. So I’ll just scoot my pillow closer to the full autumn moon. —Translated by David Bowles,…

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