Buson: The fox

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Studies of a Fox: Pieter Boel, 1669-71, oil on canvas, 53 x 65 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris)

......The fox

Changes himself into a young prince;

......The spring evening.






Buson (1716-1783): The fox, translated by R. H. Blyth in Haiku, Volume I: Eastern Culture, 1947