Mizuta Masahide

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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.
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Mizuta Masahide

Barn's burnt down—
now
I can see the moon.

Alternate translation 1

The barn has burnt
Now I see the moon.

Alternate translation 2

Since my house burned down
I now own a better view
of the rising moon


Από τότε μου κάηκε
το σπίτι μου
το φεγγάρι αναδύεται
περίλαμπρο


Κάηκε το σπίτι—
τώρα
φαίνεται το φεγγάρι


Κάηκε το σπίτι—
τώρα
βλέπω το φεγγάρι


Κάηκε το σπίτι
—να!—
το φεγγάρι
Masahide's Death Poem

while I walk on
the moon keeps pace beside me:
friend in the water