Having spent enough time talking about why hokku is not the same as haiku (and why haiku is not hokku), let’s move back to the real subject — old hokku.
Buson wrote this autumn hokku:
White dew –
A drop on each thorn
Of the bramble.
It is very simple. There are only two elements — the dew and the [...]
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WHITE DEW
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