five or six trembling

five or six trembling

rice plants…

my insect cage

– #Haiku by Kobayashi Issa, translated by David G. Lanoue, illustrated by Jessica Tremblay (Old Pond Comics)

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a katydid / in the scarecrow’s gut / singing – Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

a katydid

in the scarecrow’s gut

singing

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (tr. David G. Lanoue), haiku-comic by Old Pond Comics

pointing / at the fart bug… / laughing Buddha – Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

pointing

at the fart bug…

laughing Buddha

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (tr. David G. Lanoue)

haiku-comic by Old Pond Comics.

green insect / and brown insect… / a duet – Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

 

green insect

and brown insect…

a duet

 

– Haiku by Kobayashi Issa (tr. David G. Lanoue), haiku-comic by Old Pond Comics.

Even the insects come / To extinguish the light / In my hermitage. (haiku by Kobayashi Issa)

Even the insects come

To extinguish the light

In my hermitage.

 

– haiku by Kobayashi Issa

 

From Haiku, Tr. R.H. Blyth, Hokuseido Press,

paperpack 2nd printing, 1984

 

Haiku-comic by Old Pond Comics