Written for:  Carpe Diem #1283 – On Our Way Home
“Today I have chosen a prompt that I used in December 2015, on our way home. It was one of the episodes I created about that wonderful haibun by Matsuo Basho, Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road Into the Deep North).”

“In that (triple) episode I mentioned a famous haiku poet and close friend of Basho, Kasugi Issho. Issho is not a well known haiku poet nowadays, but it is said that he wrote wonderful haiku and love-poems.”

“Here is the only haiku which I could find written by Kasugi Issho. I have tried to translate it and honor Issho with that translation.”

mi tsukushita me wa shirgiku ni modori keri

seen with my eyes
whitehemums
again I saw them

© Kasugi Issho (1652-1688)

Here is my attempt:

seen only once
on path near leaves and water
evening tree frogs

Note:  The Pacific tree frog (Pseudacris regilla), also known as the Pacific chorus frog, has a range from the West Coast of the United States (from Northern California, Oregon, and Washington) to British Columbia in Canada and extreme southern Alaska.[2] They live from sea level to more than 10,000 feet in many types of habitats, reproducing in aquatic settings. They occur in shades of greens or browns and can change colors over periods of hours and weeks. (source:  Wikipedia)

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