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Full autumn moon –
on the straw mat,
pine shadow.
KIKAKU (1661-1707)
Takarai Kikaku also known as Enomoto Kikaku, was a Japanese haikai poet and among the most accomplished disciples of Matsuo Bashō. He wrote of coarser subjects than Bashō, and in this respect his poetry was closer to earlier haikai.
