Yosa Buson
poet and painter from Japan
Yosa Buson or Yosa no Buson (与謝 蕪村, 1716 – January 17, 1784, or on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month, 1783) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period.
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- Shiraume ni
akaru yo bakari to
narinikeri.- Of late the nights
are dawning
plum-blossom white. - Japanese Death Poems. Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann. ISBN 978-0-8048-3179-6
- Of late the nights
