Haiku (52)
Trên cánh đồng khô
hoà thượng trú trì
đang ngồi ỉa.
His holiness the Abbot
Is shitting
In the withered fields.
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* Pháp Hoan dịch từ bản dịch tiếng Anh trong The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson, & Issa. Edited by Robert Hass. Nguyên tác thơ của Yosa Buson (Dữ Tạ Vu Thôn, 与謝 蕪村).
* Artwork: After Yosa Buson, 19th century. Kakejiku, in ink and slight colour on paper, depicting three tiny portraits of the three haiku poets Enomoto Kikaku, Matsuo Tosei (Basho) and Hattori Ransetsu, seated in conversation, with introductory inscriptions of the poets above and their own poems to their left, inscribed Yahantei Buson sha with seal.
PHÁP HOAN | 法歡 