Kana Calligraphy Piece: Winding Breeze

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#235 The cool summer breeze—…

Size:Postcard; about 15×10 cm
Dressingframed

What kind of verse?

verse:Suzu-kaze ya, magari kunette, ki tari keri
(imho):The cool summer breeze—
twisting, turning through the air,
finally arrives.
poet:Kobayashi, Issa
in:1815

brief comment

This haiku is said to have been written by Issa while he was living in a nagaya, a row-house tenement in Edo (present-day Tokyo). You can really feel how tightly packed the buildings must have been.

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