Name Mizuta Masahide Died 1723 | Role Poet | |
April 9, 2017, Palm Sunday - “Now I Can See The Moon” with Rev. Sally Robbins
Mizuta Masahide (水田 正秀, 1657–1723) was a seventeenth-century (Edo period) Japanese poet and samurai who studied under Matsuo Basho.
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Masahide practiced medicine in Zeze and led a group of poets who built the Mumyo Hut.
Examples
Barn's burnt down
Barn's burnt down
now
I can see the moon.
Alternate translation:
Since my house burned down
I now own a better view
of the rising moon
When bird passes on
When bird passes on
like moon,
a friend to water.
Masahide's Death Poem
while I walk on
the moon keeps pace beside me:
friend in the water
References
Mizuta Masahide Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA