Mukai Kyorai

"The cuckoo sings at right angle to the lark"

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

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

"The late master said: "What will a monkey do here? Tell me how you have come up with the conception of the poem." Kyorai replied: "I was thinking that the speaker, enjoying the bright moonlight, wanders in mountains and fields while reciting poems. At that moment he saw another poet under the cliff." The late master said: "It would add more furyu if you make here comes another companion of the moon the poets self-portrait, though this will make it a first-person poem."