English

On a tour to compose hokku:
In a rape field sparrows look as if out to view the flowers

In a fisherman's hut crickets mingle with small shrimp

Having been given some kindling by Jokushi's wife while holing up for the winter:
I'll make a fire tonight to melt the frost on my roof

Early in the ninth month I went back to my birthplace; the day lilies of the north hall had died off in the frost, now with no trace left. Everything had changed from the past; my siblings had white hair on their temples, wrinkles on their brows. We could say no more than, " We are alive. " My brother opened his amulet and said, " Look at mother's white hair. Urashima's comb box — your eyebrows have grown old, too. " He wept for a while:
If taken in hand, autumn frost will melt — the tears are hot

Hozo Pass:
In the sky above the skylarks I rest at a mountaintop pass

Of myself:
Hair grown and face pale in this May rain

For three days winds and rain raged and we stayed on the miserable mountain:
Fleas, lice — a horse pisses right by my pillow

The sky in the middle of the fourth month was still hazy, and the moon of the fleeting short night quite alluring, the mountains dark with young leaves. It was time for cuckoos to appear, calling, when the eastern clouds began to turn white beyond the sea:
Fishermen's faces were seen first, then the poppy flowers

A cuckoo fades away, and in its direction, a single island

Wanting to see the " first snow " at my grass hut, whenever I was elsewhere and the sky became cloudy, I would hurry home — I did it so many times. But one twelfth month, on the eighth, for the first time it snowed [while I was home], and I was overjoyed:
First snow: luckily I find myself residing in my own hut

First shower — even a monkey seems to want a small coat