Black & white contrast.

# 1


Yosa Buson:

All alongside
Black Valley white
buckwheat flowers.


[白狐]

黒谷のとなりは白しそばの花

kurodani no
tonari wa shiroshi
soba no hana.

black-valley's alongside/next-to (nom.) white buckwheat's flowers.

Kurodani is also a place name.
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# 2


Ochi Etsujin:

The oil lamp lantern
black soot all over, the last
of chilly white snow.


[白狐]

行燈の煤けぞ寒き雪のくれ

andon no
susuke zo samuki
yuki no kure.

of-"going-light" > paper-covered oil lamp lantern /
is sooted all over cold / snow's end.
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# 1:
Source: http://wkdhaikutopics.blogspot.nl/2010/11/ochi-etsujin.html
# 2:
Source: "Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson",
translated by W.S. Merwin & Takako Lento,

And many thanks to: http://tangorin.com/