En bas d'un ciel de saule.

Based on Bashô's haiku # 905:

Un jour de printemps
-- en bas d'un ciel de saule
il pleut goutte à goutte.

A day in spring --
down from a willow sky
rain is dripping.


[白狐]

[MB905, spring, 1694.]
hakku ken / sora de ame furu / yanagi ka na.

"hakku = hachi + ku = 8 or 9
é–“ (ma) > ken = 1.818 metres >> 14.5 metres or 16.4 metres
>> doesn't make sense: willows don't grow that tall !!
Unless it's a Pure Land Buddhist willow ?? //
from [height mentioned above] sky rain falls // willow I-wonder-?!"

Source: "Bashô - The Complete Haiku", translated by Jane Reichhold.

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