Mizuta Masahide

Mizuta Masahide (水田 正秀, 1657–1723) 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

Barn's burnt down --
now
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

References

1. Ueda, Makoto. "Basho and His Interpreters." Stanford University Press. 1995. 342. Retrieved on April 14, 2009.
2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-07. Retrieved 2010-06-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
3. http://docs.rwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=rr