Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
    

.春立や我家の空もなつかしき
haru tatsu ya waga ya no sora mo natsukashiki

spring’s begun—
the sky over my house too
like old times

    in morning mist
a frenzy of drops
from the tree
    even for this body of dust
a guardian god!
blossoming spring
    still I see them
how they were…
bare winter trees
    

even the crow,

usually hateful but

in the morning snow …”

– Bashō
(日頃にくき 烏も雪の あしたかな higoro nikuki karasu mo yuki no ashita kana)

    Among the grasses,
An unknown flower
Blooming white.
    celebrating the rain
in the reeds
croaking frogs
    the plum tree too
is soon snowed in…
winter seclusion
    looking delicious
the snow falling softly
softly