Meri's Musings

Visit Haiku My Heart  at Rebecca's place. Tamagawa-zutsumi no hana -  Blossoms on the Tama River Embankment Hiroshige Ando (1797 - 1858) courtesy Library of Congress Japanese Print Collection LC-DIG-jpd-10328 - digital file from original print A world of trials and if the cherry blossoms, it simply blossoms.    - Kobayashi Issa 1763 - 1827

Satsuki hototogisu (Cuckoo - May) by Koryusai Isoda (1762 - 1788) from Library of Congress Japanese Print collection LC-DIG-jpd-02731 (digital file from original print)  Even in Kyoto, how I long for Kyoto when the cuckoo sings.  - Bash ö Haiku My Heart

Haiku My Heart at Recuerda mi Corazon Megata: Wisteria Vine (from 1870s) in Library of Congress Photo & Print Collection http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/jpd.01076 in pale moonlight the wisteria's scent comes from far away   - Buson