Shiki - Three thousand, Haiku to examine, Two persimmons

A haiku by Masaoka Shiki, read sanzen no haiku wo kemishi kaki futatsu. Shiki worked as a selector of other people's haiku for the newspapers, reading them by the thousand. 柿 (kaki) is the persimmon, the fruit that returns again and again in his poems. Three thousand judged, and then two persimmons.