93

Dairi-bina

            The Emperor of Dolls holding sway

                        over all today

 

92

The Kapitan too

            bows down before the Shogun

                        the New Year greeting

 

91

Teikin no Orai 

            Who'll be first to take it out

                        this New Year morning?

90

Well so anyway no ado

            yesterday went and happened

                        after fugu soup

89

The white of charcoal

            The Urashima story

                        and the age-old box

 

88

Snow on Mount Fuji

            created in a dream by

                        Rosei's pillow

 

87

Swaddled by the frost

            settled to sleep in the wind

                        an abandoned child

 

86

A winter shower

            Pebbles pelting into the

                        Koishikawa

  

85

The scudding of clouds

            A dog running and pissing

                        a passing shower

 

84

The dyeing begins

            Onto tofu befallen

                        a maple-leaf tinge

83

Weakening branches

            reddish toushi paper torn

                        The wind in autumn

 

82

Gazing at the sawn

            end of a freshly felled tree

                        Tonight's harvest moon

 

81

The harvest moon tonight

            Come shine it up Hitomi

                        Izumo-no-Kami

 

80

Leaf-sheathed ears of corn

            Under the eaves the green reed

                        taken by mistake

 

79

Autumntime coming on

            Coming to visit my ears

                        the pillow-rustling wind

78

From the topmost bough

            emptiness has come falling

                        a cicada's husk

77

Omi mossie --

            net sweat rippling waves breaking

                        on the bed tonight

 

76

Rainy season rains

            The watchman's lantern lighting

                        the Dragon's candles

75

Tomorrow chimaki

            leaf-wrappings will dry and die

                        a Naniwa dream

 

74

Though unwaited for

            the veg seller's come calling

                        The lesser cuckoo

 

73

Always first to know

            Upon Gichiku's bamboo

                        a snowfall of blooms

 

72

Even the Dragon

            Palace with today's low-tide

                        Airing-the-House-Out

 

71

The tomcat's molly

            through the ruins of a crumbled hearth

                        coming and going

 

70

Across Mount Hiei

            inscribing "shi" at a stroke

                        a lone line of mist

69

The kadomatsu

        at New Year and overnight

                    thirty years have gone by