{"collection":"shi","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/shi/msj/msj22.htm","path":"shi/msj/msj22.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/shi/msj/msj22.htm","text":"The Master-Singers of Japan, by Clara A. Walsh, [1914]\nHe lived at the close of the 17th century, and is described by Professor Chamberlain as \"acknowledged master of the seventeen-syllable style,\" and his poems as \"full of flashes of delicate fancy,\" \"specks of humour, truth and wisdom.\" He belonged to an ancient Samurai family, retainers of the Daimio of Tsu-Is\u00e9. He became a Buddhist priest, a student of the Zen doctrines, and was an artist as well as poet. He took journeys into the secluded parts of Japan, and there inscribed many poems on stones, some of which still remain.\nBy Bash\u014d\nThe Autumn gloaming deepens into night;\n Black \u2019gainst the slowly-fading orange light,\n On withered bough a lonely crow is sitting i\nAh! this full moon! Would I could knock to-night\n At sacred M\u00fcdera's ancient gate,\n Bathed in the misty radiance of her light.\nAn old-time pond, from out whose shadowed depth\n Is heard the plash where some lithe frog leaps in!\nCherry-blossoms of Yoshino,\n These and these only!\n Unsurpassed in loveliness\n Yoshino's peerless blossoms!\nA cloud of blossom\n Far and near;\n Then sweet and clear,\nWhat bell is that\n That charms my ear?\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ueno?\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Asakusa?","title":"The Master-Singers of Japan: XXI.","type":"page"}