Ozaki Hosai 尾崎放哉
haiku poet · Taisho Japan · 1885–1926
A haiku poet who graduated from Tokyo Imperial University and rose to be an insurance executive, lost his position to drink, and died living alone in a hermitage on a small island.
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c. 1925
A moon this fine, and I look at it alone and go to bed.
こんなよい月を一人で見て寝るFree-verse haiku, in Selected Haiku of Ozaki Hosai
1926 · In his hermitage on Shodoshima, a few months before he died
Even when I cough, alone.
咳をしても一人Free-verse haiku, in Selected Haiku of Ozaki Hosai
1926
No bowl to hold it. I take it in both hands.
入れものが無い両手で受けるFree-verse haiku, in Selected Haiku of Ozaki Hosai
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