“Spring haiku poems
春たちて まだ九日の 野山哉
Haru tachite/ Mada kokonoka no/ Noyama kana
Passed the first day of spring,
It’s only nine days
On the hills and fields.
*He did not make it a word, but he surely trembled in the cold air of the mountain in early spring.”
Matsuo Basho
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