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JAPANESE

HAIKU

TWO HUNDRED TWENTY
EXAMPLES OF
SEVENTEEN-SYLLABLE
POEMS

BY BASHO • BUSON • ISSA
SHIKI SOKAN • KIKAKU
AND OTHERS • TRANSLATED
BY PETER BEILENSON

PUBLISHED BY THE
PETER PAUPER PRESS
MOUNT VERNON
NEW YORK

[1955]

Scanned at sacred-texts.com, April 2007. Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was not renewed in a timely fashion as required by law at the time. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies.

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