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Basho Matsuo
Here are three examples of the haiku of Basho Matsuo, the first great poet of haiku in the 1600s:

An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.

. Autumn moonlight— a worm digs silently into the chestnut.

. Lightning flash— what I thought were faces are plumes of pampas grass.