Just Washed, How Chill The White Leeks!

Nothing In The Cry Of Cicadas Suggests They Are About To Die

When Composing A Verse Let There Not Be A Hair's Breath Separating Your Mind From What You Write; Composition Of A Poem Must Be Done In An Instant, Like A Woodcutter Felling A Huge Tree Or A Swordsman Leaping At A Dangerous Enemy.

The Haiku That Reveals Seventy To Eighty Percent Of Its Subject Is Good. Those That Reveal Fifty To Sixty Percent, We Never Tire Of.

At The Ancient Pond The Frog Plunges Into The Sound Of Water

First Snow-falling-on The Half-finished Bridge.