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Matsuo Bashō was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.

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List of poems by Matsuo Basho 111 total

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The old pond
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Autumn moonlight
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A Ball of Snow 499 Views
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The oak tree
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Basho's Death Poem 338 Views
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From time to time
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The passing spring
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I'm a wanderer
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Haiku
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A snowy morning 222 Views
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In this world of ours, 203 Views
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Winter solitude
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a strange flower
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Collection of Six Haiku
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A cicada shell 165 Views
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The clouds come and go
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Won't you come and see 161 Views
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A wild sea
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A caterpillar 155 Views
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Four Haiku
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Winter garden
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Fleas, lice 145 Views
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A field of cotton 144 Views
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the whole family 144 Views
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Teeth sensitive to the sand 137 Views
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The banana tree
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First day of spring
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How admirable 135 Views
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This old village 134 Views
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Eaten alive 131 Views
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Heat waves shimmering 131 Views
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Flower
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The winter storm 126 Views
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Don't imitate me 125 Views
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Wrapping the rice cakes 124 Views
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Midfield 123 Views
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Chilling autumn rains
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A bee 120 Views
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A monk sips morning tea 120 Views
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The morning glories 119 Views
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An Old Pond
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Passing through the world 118 Views
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North: Prologue
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The she cat 117 Views
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The morning glory also 116 Views
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The butterfly 115 Views
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deep into autumn
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I like to wash 109 Views
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This old village 108 Views
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Stillness 107 Views
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Ungraciously 105 Views
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On this road 104 Views
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When the winter chrysanthemums go 104 Views
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A cold rain starting
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A weathered skeleton 97 Views
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Heat waves shimmering 93 Views
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husking rice 92 Views
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None is travelling
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under my tree-roof
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How wild the sea is
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With every gust of wind
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Taking a nap 88 Views
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On New Year's Day 86 Views
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The first snow 83 Views
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Morning and evening 82 Views
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What fish feel 81 Views
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Blowing stones
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Even that old horse 79 Views
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The squid seller's call 79 Views
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the winter leeks
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Tremble oh my gravemound
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souls' festival 76 Views
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Spring rain
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Coolness of the melons 75 Views
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The dragonfly 75 Views
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Moonlight slanting 74 Views
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First snow 73 Views
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A cool fall night 70 Views
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Clouds 69 Views
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As they begin to rise again 68 Views
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a cuckoo cries 66 Views
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With a warbler 66 Views
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the warbler sings 64 Views
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Winter seclusion 64 Views
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First winter rain
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Sleep on horseback 62 Views
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A man infirm 61 Views
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This first fallen snow 61 Views
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The petals tremble 59 Views
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It is with awe 58 Views
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Wrapping dumplings 57 Views
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Awake at night
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Staying at an inn 54 Views
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Bitter–tasting ice — 53 Views
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On the cow shed
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Cold as it was 50 Views
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On Buddha's deathday
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On the white poppy 50 Views
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crossing long fields 49 Views
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Bush warbler 48 Views
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Cold night: the wild duck
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Untitled
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bush-clover flowers 45 Views
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Scarecrow in the hillock 44 Views
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Petals of the mountain rose 43 Views
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Year’s end, 41 Views
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long conversations 40 Views
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Winter downpour 40 Views
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shaking the grave
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The shallows 36 Views
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But for a woodpecker 29 Views
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