Issa 一茶 1817 age 52.
深川や舟も一組とし忘
fukagawa ya fune mo hito-gumi toshiwasure
David's English
Fukagawa--
on a boat, too, a party
drinks away the year
This haiku refers to an end-of-year drinking party. Fukagawa is a neighborhood in Edo (today's Tokyo) on Sumida River's east bank. The great haiku poet Basho^ lived there in his Basho^-an ("Banana-leaf hermitage").
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