“How still it is!
Stinging into the stones,
The locusts' trill.”

— Bashō Matsuo, book Oku no Hosomichi

静けさや
岩に滲み入る
蝉の声
shizukesaya
iwa ni shimiiru
semi no koe
Donald Keene, World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867, New York, 1999, p. 89 (Translation: Donald Keene)
Oku no Hosomichi

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Japanese poet 1644–1694

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“How still it is!
Stinging into the stones,
The locusts' trill.”