Ozaki Hosai

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Ozaki Hoosai 尾崎 放哉 Ozaki Hosai

20 January 1885 - 7 April 1926

Ozaki Hōsai (尾崎 放哉)
Ozaki Hoosai, Ozaki Hosai
Details in the wikipedia.


Haiku poet of the late Meiji period.

Hoosai Ki 放哉忌 (ほうさいき) Hosai Memorial Day
kigo for mid-spring


An alcoholic, Osaki witnessed the birth of the modern free verse haiku movement. His verses are permeated with loneliness, most likely a result of the isolation, poverty and poor health of his final years. He produced one volume of haiku.




ichinichi mono iwazu choo no kage sasu

all day I say nothing
a butterfly casts a shadow

Tr. Gabi Greve


足のうら洗えば白くなる
肉がやせてくる太い骨である
いれものがない両手でうける
考えごとをしている田螺が歩いている

Hosai Museum at Shodoshima
1998 Hosai FriendShip Association


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咳をしても一人
seki o shite mo hitori

Je tousse pourtant je suis seul


Even coughing -
I am alone.
He wrote this with an allusion to Santoka.


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春の山の後ろから煙が出だした
haru no yama no ushiro kara kemuri ga dedashita

La colline au printemps
derrière monte
une fumée

More translations in French
©　nekojita


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淋しいからだから爪がのび出す
sabishii karada kara tsume ga nobidasu

from my lonely body
nails are growing longer




雀の暖かさを握るはなしてやる
suzume no atatakasa o nigiru hanashite yaru

I feel the warmth of a sparrow in my hand
and then let it go




いつしかついて来た犬と浜辺に居る
itsu shika tsuite kita ino to hamabe ni iru

a dog followed unnoticed
now with me on the beach



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Sumitaku Kenshin 　住宅顕信
1961年3月21日 - 1987年2月7日

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Kenshin was born on March 21, 1961, in Okayama, west of Osaka, and was named Haruo (spring man) probably because that date in most years falls on the spring equinox in Japan. In September 1982 he started taking a correspondence course on Buddhism. In July 1983, when a normal Japanese at his age had just joined a corporation, he became a priest of the Pure Land sect of Buddhism, in a ceremony held at the Nishi-Honganji, Kyoto, and was given the name Kenshin (revealed faith).
In February 1984 he was diagnosed with leukemia and hospitalized. In October he became a member of the “free-rhythm” haiku group Sôun (Cumulus). In 1985 his conditions improved enough for him to leave the hospital, and for a few months he engaged in promoting “free-rhythm” haiku.
But soon he was back in the hospital and on February 7, of the following year, he died.

MORE
source : Hiroaki Sato - simplyhaiku.com, 2004


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. Taneda Santooka 種田山頭火 Taneda Santoka .


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