Mizuta Masahide

Mizuta Masahide (水田 正秀) was a seventeenth-century (Edo period) Japanese poet and samurai who studied under Matsuo Bashō.

Masahide practiced medicine in Zeze and led a group of poets who built the Mumyō Hut.

Examples
Barn's burnt down

My barn having burned to the ground

I can see the moon.

Alternate translation:

Since my house burned down

I now own a better view

of the rising moon

When bird passes on When bird passes on --

like moon,

a friend to water.

Masahide's Death Poem while I walk on

the moon keeps pace beside me:

friend in the water