Mizuta Masahide Explained

was a seventeenth-century (Edo period) Japanese poet and samurai who studied under Matsuo Bashō.

Masahide practiced medicine in Zeze and led a group of poets who built the Mumyō Hut.^{[1] [2]}

Examples

Barn's burnt down

My barn having burned to the ground
I can see the moon.

Alternate translation:^[3]

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

Notes and References

1. Ueda, Makoto. "Basho and His Interpreters." Stanford University Press. 1995. 342. Retrieved on April 14, 2009.
2. Web site: Masahide : Poems and Biography . 2010-06-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100307030225/http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/M/Masahide/index.htm . 2010-03-07 .
3. http://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=rr