Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams in Japanese Calligraphy

夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 (natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato)

A haiku by Matsuo Basho, read natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato. Basho wrote it at Hiraizumi, on the ground where the Fujiwara warriors fell, and it appears in his travel account Oku no Hosomichi. 兵 (tsuwamono) is a warrior of that older kind. What is left of them is grass.

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams (夏草や兵どもが夢の跡) in Block style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato Block Vertical VB5C

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams (夏草や兵どもが夢の跡) in Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato Cursive Vertical VC4B

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato Cursive Vertical VC6B

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams (夏草や兵どもが夢の跡) in Design style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato Design Vertical VD4B

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato Design Vertical VD4C

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams (夏草や兵どもが夢の跡) in Semi-Cursive style Japanese calligraphy by Eri Takase

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato Semi-Cursive Vertical VS4C

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato Block Horizontal HB4A

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato Cursive Horizontal HC4A

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams 夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato Semi-Cursive Horizontal HS3A

Basho - Summer grass, all the warriors are, but the remains of dreams

夏草や兵どもが夢の跡 (natsukusa ya tsuwamono domo ga yume no ato)

Also available as a hand-brushed Japanese scroll