This page uses a Java applet to display haiku one line at a time, so you can read it like it was meant to be heard. It would be great if you could find another browser and experience it. Meanwhile, the haiku is:

I fell a tree
and gaze at the cut end--
the moon of tonight


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original in Japanese by Matsuo Basho

translation copyright © 1970, Twayne Publishers
Matsuo Basho, by Makoto Ueda
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