Issa: Forty nine years / Hiroshige: Fourteen views of the full moon

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Chrysanthemums and Moon: Hiroshige Andō (1797-1858) (Irving H. Olds Collection, Japanese Prints and Drawings, Library of Congress)

......The moon and flowers:

Forty nine years

......Walking about and wasting time.

 
Forty nine years: Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827): translated by R. H. Blyth in Haiku, Volume I: Eastern Culture, 1947

Views of the full moon by Hiroshige Andō (Utagawa Hiroshige) (1797-1858)

Gekka momo ni tsubakura: Moon, swallows and peach blossoms: Hiroshige Andō (1797-1858) (Irving H. Olds Collection, Japanese Prints and Drawings, Library of Congress)

Wind Blown Grass Across the Moon, 19th c. (Asian Art Collection, Brooklyn Museum)

Moon behind leaves, from Twenty-Eight Moonlight Views, early 1830s

 

The moon over a waterfall (another version of the above), from Twenty-Eight Moonlight Views, early 1830s

Full moon over a mountain landscape, from Eight Views of the Province Omi (Omi Hakkei), between 1831 and 1837

Miyanokoshi on the Kisokaido, from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso-kaidō, 1834-1842

Nagakobu on the Kisokaido, from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso-kaidō, 1834-1842

 

Men poling boats past a bank with willows, from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso-kaidō, 1834-1842 

A family in a misty landscape, from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso-kaidō, 1834-1842

Travellers in the Moonlight, from The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso-kaidō, 1834-1842

 
Bamboo Yards, Kyōbashi Bridge (Tokyo), from One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, between 1756 and 1758 (Asian Art Collection, Brooklyn Museum)

Full Moon at Takanawa (Takanawa no Meigetsu), from Celebrated Places in the Eastern Capital (Toto Meisho), between 1828 and 1834 (Frank L. Babbott Fund, Asian Art Collection, Brooklyn Museum)

Kanazawa Shugetsu (Autumn moon) from Eight Views of Kanazawa, c. 1820