Top 3 Mukai Kyorai Quotes

Japanese poet

, original name Mukai Kane-toki, 向井去来 (1651 - 8 October 1704) was a Japanese poet, and a close disciple of Matsuo Bashō.

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'Yes, yes!' I answered,
But someone still knocked At the snow-mantled gate

The cuckoo sings
at right angle
to the lark

Sadly I see the light fade on my palm: a firefly.