arelativenewcomer: I wake and findthe coloured irisI saw in my dream.(Ome Shushiki [1669–1725]

arelativenewcomer: I wake and findthe coloured irisI saw in my dream.(Ome Shushiki [1669–1725], Japanese haiku poet of the Edo period; transl. Y. Hoffmann)Under the sun of May borders melt and disappear; irises from the dream bloom among the grasses and the garden expands shamelessly into the dream, grasses, irises, and all. Any way you slice it—continuity.      Top to bottom, left to right: Yoshida Hiroshi, Iris Garden in Horikiri, 1928 [source]; Shufu Miyamoto, Iris in Rain, 2000 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Sobu Iris Garden, Meiji Shrine, 1951 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Iris, 1929 [source]; Katsuyuki Nishijima, Canal of Sasayama, 2009 [source]. -- source link

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