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Basho celebrated the gauzy green of newly planted rice fields in spring in a haiku—a short, chant-like poem with nature at its heart. “One whole paddy field / Was planted ere I moved on / From that willow tree!”
Author: Michael Yamashita
©Michael Yamashita
Photo size: 1.5 Mpixels (4.29 MB uncompressed) - 1500x1000 pixels (5x3.3 in / 12.7x8.5 cm at 300 ppi)
Photo keywords: Basho, rice fields
Published in: Japan, On the Trail of a Ghost