Taneda Santoka 種田山頭火

wandering monk · haiku poet · Taisho–Showa Japan · 1882–1940

A haiku poet who took Buddhist vows after his family's ruin and walked all over Japan, begging as he went.

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1926 · Setting out as a wandering beggar monk, carrying a heart he could not untangle

Pushing in, and pushing further in: still green mountains.

分け入つても分け入つても青い山

Free-verse haiku, in the collection Somokuto