#Haiku Happenings #5: Fay Aoyagi’s Today’s Haiku features Shuoshi Mizuhara!
Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi)
咲くよりも落つる椿となりにけり 水原秋櫻子
saku yori mo otsuru tsubaki to narinikeri
camelia
it falls rather than
blooming
Shuoshi Mizuhara
from “Haiku Dai-Saijiki” (“Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki”), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006
Fay’s Note: Shuoshi Mizuhara (1892-1981)

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