[under the evening moon]
Translated By Robert Hass
Under the evening moon
the snail
is stripped to the waist.
Copyright Credit: [under the evening moon] by Issa from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, edited and with an introduction by Robert Hass. Copyright 1994 by Robert Hass. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Source: The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho Buson and Issa (The Ecco Press, 1994)