Blur

blurred evening
the rain dissolves
the colours in the sky

For CDHK where we learn Basho’s ‘Sketch’ or ‘Shasei” technique, strongly advocated by Masaoka Shiki, which requires the scene to be depicted exactly as it is without riddles, pun or rhyme.
Basho writes:
early autumn
the sea and rice fields
one green

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