Haiku · Winter
Snow-Viewing (haiku)
by Matsuo Bashō · 1688
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Snow-Viewing (haiku)
- Poet
- Matsuo Bashō
- Published
- 1688
- Length
- 3 lines
- Form
- Haiku, Short Poems
- Themes
- Winter, Funny, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 3 lines · one 3-line stanza
- End rhyme
- No regular perfect end rhyme. The poem may still be using slant rhyme, assonance, or internal echo, which this check does not score.
- Line length
- Mostly 5-syllable lines.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
The source work is historical; this English wording is a QuillOak editorial translation.
- Author record
- Matsuo Bashō1644–1694
- Source record
- QuillOak editorial translationSnow-Viewing (haiku), QuillOak English translation of the public-domain source work
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- 1688
- Translation
- QuillOak editorial desk
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 6a7b0176f2f26b83…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.