BUSON - imo no kami smallpox

https://darumasan.blogspot.jp/2009/07/red-and-smallpox-essay.html

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. Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .

ゆく春や横河へのぼるいもの神
yuku haru ya Yokawa e nobori imo no kami

spring comes to an end -
the God of Smallpox
is going upstream of Yokawa

Smallpox had been raving havoc in Kyoto, but finally, as spring comes to an end and moves from the city up to the mountains, so does the spread of the disease finally come to a halt.

Imo no Kami, Toosoo no Kami 痘瘡の神 Toso no Kami God of Smallpox

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hoosoo no sandara-boshi e kawazu kana
. Kobayashi Issa and the Smallpox .


Imo no Kami, Toosoo no Kami 痘瘡の神, Toso no Kami God of Smallpox
and a hokku by
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
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