by Buson

 

 

The haiku poet Onitsura

has few possessions 

but he drinks fresh-brewed sake

 

 

Translated by W. S. Merwin and Takako Lento, from Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press. 2013, page 179. Buson wrote other poems about haiku poets too.