Mizuta Masahide
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was a seventeenth century (Edo period
) Japanese poet and samurai
who studied under Matsuo Bashō
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Masahide practiced medicine in Zeze and led a group of poets who built the Mumyō Hut.
Alternate translation:
When bird passes on
Masahide's Death Poem
Edo period
The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
) Japanese poet and samurai
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
who studied under Matsuo Bashō
Matsuo Basho
, born , then , was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as a master of brief and clear haiku...
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Masahide practiced medicine in Zeze and led a group of poets who built the Mumyō 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