The cherry tree

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Under the cherry blossoms
strangers are not
really strangers
Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

Issa was a poet and a Buddhist priest living and writing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was one of the most humorous haiku poets of the times, writing about lover cats, snails climbing Mount Fuji and about living in poverty. He was also one of the most prolific haiku poets, having written more than 20,000 haiku poems in his lifetime.
[from Tokyo Weekender]